Committee Members’ Free Speech in Jeopardy
Your Signature May Stop the FEC From Trampling on Your Rights (Source: the January 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) This month the National Right to Work Committee is providing…
Right to Work on State Legislators’ Agenda
Bans on Forced Union Dues Expected to Come up For Roll-Call Votes (Source: the January 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) With the vast majority of state legislatures across the…
January 2015 NRTWC Newsletter Now Available Online
(Click here to download the January 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) Right to Work on State Legislators’ Agenda — Bans on Forced Union Dues Expected to…
Seventeen of the 19 Cities Where 'African-Americans Are Doing the Best Economically' Are Located Entirely in Right to Work States
On Monday Americans commemorated the birth of Martin Luther King and his tireless efforts to combat racial prejudice and ensure equal access to economic opportunities for all. Obviously, there remains substantial disagreement among Americans regarding the best means to help…
Anniversary: AFL-CIO Goons Murdered Joe Hooper
In quiet Lake Charles, Louisiana, situated between Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana on Interstate 10, union goons assassinated a 26 year-old husband and father of two small children. On a cool January 15th morning in 1976, Joe A.
'You Should Be Able to Do Whatever You Want to Them and It Should Be Legal'
It was 42 years ago next month that a narrow U.S. Supreme Court majority found, to the shock and indignation of countless Americans, that extortionate threats, property destruction and assaults perpetrated to further “legitimate union objectives” do not constitute extortion…
Ex-Ironworkers Union Boss's Extortion Defense: I Just Did What Other Philadelphia Construction Union Chieftains Do
Both the prosecution and the defense in the ongoing extortion trial of Joseph Dougherty, the former union boss of Philadelphia Ironworkers Local 401, agree that, over the years, a band of Local 401 officers and rank-and-file militants routinely terrorized construction…
MGM Casino, Union Face Federal Charges
MGM Casino, Local Union Face Federal Charges for Playing Fast and Loose with Worker’s Rights From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: Detroit, MI (January 6, 2015) – An area MGM Grand Detroit casino employee has filed federal…
‘Big Lie’ Strategy Gets IUOE Lawyer Nowhere
State High Court Rejects Big Labor’s Top Excuse For Forced Dues (Source: November-December 2014 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) Since Indiana adopted its Right to Work law in early 2012, top bosses…