Union Rules Prevent NYC from Firing Stalking Teacher
Union rules make it almost impossible to fire a teacher in New York City, including this $82,000 a year teacher who stalked, threatened and assaulted another teacher who refused to date him.
Who should decide whether a union benefits an employee -- union bosses or the employee?
Simon Campbell’s column defending worker’s choice in union membership is a proposition that is hard to argue against it but union bosses do it everyday of the week: Who should decide whether a union benefits an employee? The…
Job Move From Forced-Unionism California to Right to Work Texas Brings a 'Big Increase in Take-Home Pay'
Rex Sinquefield is an American success story, now devoting his life to ensuring others can take advantage of economic opportunities just as he did. After growing up in the Saint Vincent Orphanage in St. Louis, Sinquefield went on to receive…
'There Should Be No Union Exemption For Violence, Stalking, Intimidation and Destruction of Property'
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation worked to defend victims of a UAW campaign of terror that included shootings and severed cows’ headsvisited upon workers in Winchester,Virginia, in the late 1990’s. Yesterday, a Washington Times editorial…
Union Organizers Read Smoke Signals
Don’t look now union organizers are looking at the growing movement to legalize marijuana as a growth opportunity. The United Food and Commerical Workers union is organizing medical pot stores in Los Angeles and have an eye on…
Will Chris Christie Fight to Stop Big Labor From Profiteering Off Hurricane Sandy?
Early last November, an array of news outlets reported on allegations that International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW/AFL-CIO) union bosses in New York and New Jersey had sought to reap a forced-union-dues windfall from Hurricane Sandy. Whistleblowers charged that top…
'I Was Concerned That If They Pushed a Little Harder, My Head Would Be Crushed'
Organized Labor in Philadelphia “has a long history of intimidation, harassment, vandalism, violence — and impunity,” reports Jillian K. Melchior of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity a few paragraphs into a three-part investigation appearing in National Review…
Does Former New York Times Legal Reporter Linda Greenhouse Really Not Know the Difference Between a Union Member and a Union Nonmember?
More than two decades ago, a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals considered the question of whether an “employee who wishes to remain a union member but desires to contribute financially only to the…
Pennsylvania Freedom Coming Soon?
A group of state legislators proposed a package of bills today that would make Pennsylvania a Right to Work state by ending compulsory unionism and the payment of union dues by non-union members in both the public and private…