Trying to Kill Right to Work in MI, Breathes New Life

Trying to Kill Right to Work in MI, Breathes New Life

[media-credit name="| The National Right to Work Committee®" align="alignright" width="300"][/media-credit]Big Labor's coffers of forced union dues money was unable to permanently kill Right to Work in Michigan.  Frank Beckman outlines who the union bosses picked a fight and lost despite spending $50 million.  Their brazen efforts have set the stage for moving forward with Right to Work legislation in the state: Michigan voters issued a stinging rejection of state labor unions during Tuesday's elections, refusing to approve a single one of the ballot initiatives to which the big unions committed about $50 million dollars in support. The votes weren't even close, especially on labor's biggest target, Proposal 2, a constitutional amendment that would have given public sector labor unions unprecedented power and prohibited the future adoption of Right-to-Work legislation in Michigan. Reviews of labor strategy, crafted by Bob King's United Auto Workers union, will analyze whether the investment of about $50 million to push the proposals could have been used to focus on candidates instead.

Union Bosses Encourage Illegal Voting in Nevada

The powerful union bosses in Nevada are encouraging non-citizens to go to the polls. From the Las Vegas Review Journal: Voter registration fraud is not a groundless conspiracy. It is not a hypothetical threat to election integrity. In Nevada, a battleground state that could decide the presidency and control of the U.S. Senate, it is real. Last week, I met with two immigrant noncitizens who are not eligible to vote, but who nonetheless are active registered voters for Tuesday's election. They said they were signed up by Culinary Local 226. They speak and understand enough English to get by. But they don't read English especially well. They say the Culinary official who registered them to vote didn't tell them what they were signing and didn't ask whether they were citizens. The immigrants said they trusted that the union official's request was routine, thought nothing of it and went about their work. Then the election drew closer. Then the Culinary canvassers started seeking them out and ordering them to go vote. One of the immigrants was visited at home by a Culinary representative and said the operative made threats of deportation if no ballot was cast.