Forced Union Dues Funded Health Care Fight
Open Secrets reports that big labor gave over $200 million to support a government takeover of our health care system.
Open Secrets reports that big labor gave over $200 million to support a government takeover of our health care system.
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.
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.
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…
Big Labor is targeting failed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Senate seat as the “firewall” in their strategy to keep the pro-Big Labor congressional majority in power this November. Five other states including California, New York, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania…
Big Labor is targeting failed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Senate seat as the “firewall” in their strategy to keep the pro-Big Labor congressional majority in power this November. Five other states including California, New York, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania…
Michele Malkin speaks truth to power by taking on President Obama’s appointment of big spending proponent SEIU union boss Andy Stern to his White House deficit reduction commission.
Remarkably, President Obama is considering appointing SEIU union boss Andrew Stern to the new deficit reduction panel. Does the President really believe that Stern — a person whose revenue stream is increasingly…
When the Washington Post calls union officials influence toxic, you know it must be bad: In Montgomery County, the teachers union and its toxic influence MOST CANDIDATES for local office in Montgomery County covet the endorsement of the county teachers…