Union-Only Port Terminal Suspends Operations
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
The July 2011 issue of The National Right to Work Committee Newsletter is available for download July 2011 Newletter in an Adobe pdf format for your convenience to read and share. It is the Committee’s official newsletter publication that provides an excellent monthly overview of the battle against forced unionism.
July 2011 issue headlines:
Obama NLRB Unveils New ‘Card-Check’ Scheme — President’s Handpicked Bureaucrats Ignore 2010 Election Results
Boeing Workers Battle Big Labor, Obama NLRB — Right to Work Offers Legislative as Well as Legal Assistance
‘Systematically Biased’ Against Schoolchildren — Stanford Professor Lambastes Monopolistic Teacher Unionism
House Narrowly Okays Union-Only PLAs — Handful of Big Labor-Appeasing Republicans Make the Difference
Right to Work State Economies Grow Faster — Private-Sector Employees and Employers Alike Reap Major Benefits
Forced-Unionism Issue Looms Large For 2012 — Right to Work Committee Begins Lobbying Presidential Hopefuls
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
According to AFSCME Local 1632 President Will Harmon, Columbus Water & Power committed a grievous offense by subcontracting out the job of clearing away invasive weeds and brush spread out across two acres of its property to a tribe of roughly 40 goats without first “negotiating” with Big Labor.
One longtime IAFF official who is now in the spotlight for his crass denigration of “two-hatters” -- that is, professional firefighters who also serve as volunteers -- is Pennsylvania Democrat politician Bob Brooks.