From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: UAW Union Bosses Hit With Federal Charges for Illegally Demanding Tropicana Casino Dealer Join Union Nonunion casino dealer was threatened by union official: pay back dues or be fired Evansville,…
Union Kingpins Now Blame Others For Benefit-Slashing Plan They Backed (source: National Right to Work October 2015 Newsletter) In the “lame duck” session of Congress called at the end of last year, lawmakers voted, without ever holding any public…
Obama NLRB Ignores 68-Year-Old Statutory Definition of ‘Employer’ (source: National Right to Work October 2015 Newsletter) In the latest of a series of bureaucratic rewrites of federal labor law that are clearly intended to…
Lawmakers’ ‘Power of the Purse String’ Can Protect Right to Work (source: National Right to Work August 2015 Newsletter) As this Newsletter edition goes to press, it’s been nearly four months since President Barack Obama’s radical National Labor…
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s solicitor attacked Gov. Bruce Rauner for filing a brief in support of the plaintiffs in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association U.S. Supreme Court case. Attorney General Lisa Madigan received over $2 million in direct political donations…
In Reality, NEA Union Bosses Oppose Higher Pay For Many Teachers (source: National Right to Work August 2015 Newsletter) At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up in its next term Friedrichs…
National Right to Work Foundation files brief in Friedrichs arguing that compulsory union dues for civil servants are incompatible with free speech Washington, DC (September 14, 2015) – National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys filed an amicus curiae…
Clear Contrast Between Gubernatorial Nominees on Forced Unionism (Source: July 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) After a hard-fought primary contest in which 93% of the votes went to candidates who had pledged…
Lawsuit: Racketeering Bilked Taxpayers of ‘More Than $1 Million’ (Click here to download the June 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) Early this year, a federal jury in Pennsylvania convicted Joseph Dougherty, the former boss of Philadelphia-based Local…