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.
Forced-Unionism Expansion Bill Would Kill Prospects For Millions (Source: March 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) According to a scientific poll conducted by the respected Research 2000 firm, 81% of Americans who regularly vote in statewide elections believe workers in unionized workplaces who don’t want a union should “have the right to bargain for themselves.” Unfortunately, for three-quarters of a century, federal labor law has actively promoted what Americans, according to the Research 2000 poll and many others, overwhelmingly oppose. The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the 1934 Railway Labor Act (RLA) amendments hand union officials the power to force millions of workers, union members and nonmembers alike, to accept a union as their “exclusive” (monopoly) bargaining agent in their dealings with their employer. Attack on Secret Ballot Only One Trick in Union Monopolists’ Playbook And this year Congress is very likely to bring up for floor votes legislation that would help Big Labor corral millions of additional workers into unions. Until recently, union strategists’ primary vehicle for expanding private-sector union monopoly bargaining in the current Congress was S.560/H.R.1409, the cynically mislabeled “Employee Free Choice Act.” This legislation is designed to help union bosses sharply increase the share of all workers who are under union monopoly control by effectively ending secret-ballot elections in union organizing campaigns.
But President Obama Refuses to Back Down, Threatens ‘End Run’ (Source: March 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Ever since April 2009, when President Barack Obama first announced his intention to put radical Service Employees International Union (SEIU) lawyer Craig Becker on…
Latest Data Show Exodus From Forced-Unionism States Continues (Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Without a doubt, much about the U.S. economy has changed since the real estate crash of 2007 and the extraordinary mortgage-loan crisis that soon followed in its…
Both House and Senate-Passed Measures Promote Forced Unionism (Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) In November, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly adopted one version of President Obama’s health-care “reform” (H.R.3962). And last month, exactly 60 (the minimum number necessary) U.S.
Obama Bureaucrats Keen to Help Herd Transport Workers Into Unions (Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Much that is written about American labor unions is misleading because it assumes they operate like other private, nonprofit organizations. In key respects, this assumption…
Big Labor Reminds Majority Leader Reid He Must Deliver on S.560 (Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Neither the “Card-Check” Forced Unionism Bill’s extreme unpopularity with the public nor the obvious reluctance of several members of his own caucus on Capitol Hill to vote for this legislation can excuse Majority Leader Harry Reid from his obligation to ram it through the U.S. Senate. That’s the message Big Labor is sending to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) as the second session of the 111th U.S. Congress gets underway this month. Last year, Mr. Reid tried early in the session to move the “card-check” bill, but, after Americans opposed to the measure inundated Senate offices with phone calls and mail, he backed off. Mr. Reid then vowed the Senate would take up the “card-check” bill, S.560, as soon as it had fulfilled President Obama’s request of adopting legislation reworking America’s $2.5 trillion-a-year health-care system. And on Christmas Eve, the Senate rubber-stamped H.R. 3590, Mr. Reid’s version of ObamaCare, in a straight party-line vote. Furthermore, Mr. Reid’s U.S. House counterpart, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), has made it clear she expects the Senate to act on S.560 before the House votes on H.R.1409, the lower chamber’s version of the “card-check” scheme.
Tensions Rise as Union Bosses’ Window of Opportunity Narrows (Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) In the wake of the November 2006 elections three years ago, Big Labor strategists were confident they had won all the marbles in Iowa. After saying…
But Federal Forced-Unionization Scheme Is Bound to Reemerge Soon (Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) It is growing very clear that Big Labor politicians know the American people do not support their scheme to establish a new federal mandate imposing…
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Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama Benefit From Major New Investments (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Although manufacturing employment nationwide continues to fall despite some signs of nascent recovery from the 2008-2009 recession, automotive manufacturing jobs appear already to be on the rise…
Massive Union Job Losses Make Case For ‘Card-Check’ Legislation? (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) On January 22, the U.S. Labor Department issued a report providing a snapshot, in numbers, of some of the latest damage wrought to employees, employers, and the economy as a whole by government-imposed union monopoly bargaining. The report shows that, in one major business sector after another, the jobs of workers who labor under forced unionism were far more likely to be destroyed during the 2008-2009 recession than were the jobs of union-free workers. In the hard-hit telecommunications sector, for example, the number of jobs subject to union monopoly bargaining plummeted by 20.7% last year, over four times the decline for union-free jobs. Unionized construction jobs plunged by 20.0%. Over the same period, union-free construction jobs fell by 12.4%. 'These Numbers Show a Need For Congress to Pass’ S.560/H.R.1409 The number of Big Labor-controlled manufacturing jobs declined by 14.3%, nearly four percentage points more than the decline for union-free jobs in manufacturing. Overall, unionized private-sector employment sank by 9.4% last year, a decline more than double the total private-sector job loss of 4.4%.
Big Labor-Appeasing GOP Politicians Abetting Obama Power Grab (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) This winter, state and local elected officials around the country are expressing their serious concerns about a proposed new federal mandate foisting union “exclusive representation” (monopoly bargaining) on…
Congress Targets Taxpayer Sanctuaries From Big Labor Monopolists (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) As a group, taxpayers strongly believe they are worse off with the combination of taxes and public services they get in states in which more than half of…
Despite Big Labor’s Intense Support, Southers Nomination Sinks (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) President Obama, Big Labor U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and union-label House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are all eager to help government union bosses…
Supreme Court Largely Overturns Phony Campaign ‘Reform’ Law (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Nearly eight years ago, a coalition of voluntary associations, including the National Right to Work Committee, launched a legal effort to get key anti-free speech provisions in the…
President Renominates Radical Union Lawyer, Senators Feel Heat (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Recently, a number of U.S. senators with pro-forced unionism track records have started to catch on to the fact that their votes in favor of corralling workers into…
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Jan-Feb 2010 Newsletter Now On-line: In this issue: Right to Work Sues Obama Administration, Demands Info on Big Labor Ties Big Labor Moves to Roll Back Sweeping Foundation Precedent Right…