New Government Agencies Fresh Supply of Forced-Union Dues
Big Labor will have a field day unionizing, often by force, workers in the following 159 new boards, bureaucracies, and programs created by the health care reform bill.
Big Labor will have a field day unionizing, often by force, workers in the following 159 new boards, bureaucracies, and programs created by the health care reform bill.
The Washington Times and the Wall Street Journal discuss the possibility of a recess appointment of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. A recess appointment would bypass the will of the Senate and install a self-proclaimed forced unionism radical to the Board. The Washington Times correctly opines: Mark Mix of the National Right to Work organization reports that in 2007 alone, Mr. Becker's lawyering forced 63,000 California workers to pay union dues even after rejecting union membership. He allowed repeated "home visits" for union backers, designed to pressure workers to sign public union-organizing petitions. Unions were "formed to escape the evils of individualism and individual competition. ... Their actions necessarily involve coercion," Mr. Becker once explained. This gets to the heart of the fears about this nomination. The administration so far has been unable to push through Congress the radical plan to force union organizing through "card check" mechanisms in which workers would be denied a secret ballot when voting on whether to unionize. The purpose, clearly, is to invite coercion and intimidation to increase the ranks of dues-paying members. Mr. Becker let slip his suggested solution to the congressional difficulty back in 1993, when he said the NLRB could impose card check, or something close to it, with "no alteration of the statutory framework." Indeed, he openly called for "abandoning the union election."
Eminent Economist Gauges Benefits of Banning Forced Unionism (Source: March 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) A new scholarly article by eminent economist Richard Vedder constitutes an important addition to the already formidable array of evidence that state Right to Work laws increase…
Open Secrets reports that big labor gave over $200 million to support a government takeover of our health care system.
Senator Reaffirms Support For Federal Monopoly-Bargaining Mandate (Source: March 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Poll after poll indicates that union-label Democratic U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln faces a tough battle to get reelected in Right to Work Arkansas this November. And Ms.
Patrick O’Connor, on Politico.com, reports the “Cadillac Tax” provisions of the Health Care bill have been altered and the White House immediately “entertained” AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka to keep him happy. Another example of the tail wagging the dog.
Here’s the Link to the so-called ObamaCare reconciliation bill. Now, the fight is on. In just days, the U.S. House could be voting on the Big Labor paybacks in the Nationalized Health Care scheme, or the ObamaCare Bill passed by…
From the Birmingham News: The good news for Alabama union membership is bad news for state and national union leaders. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of union members in Alabama increased fairly significantly from 2008…
On his nationally-syndicated radio show, Lars Larson discusses Big Labor’s Police and Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bills (H.R. 413, S. 1611)with The National Right to Work Committee Vice President Doug Stafford. The bills, which union bosses themselves call the greatest (potential)…