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 June 2011 issue of The National Right to Work Committee Newsletter is available for download 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.
June 2011 issue headlines:
Committee Mobilizes Against NLRB Power Grab — Obama Bureaucrat Eager to Tell Businesses Where They May Expand
Teachers Aren’t ‘Interchangeable’ in Tennessee — Volunteer State Teacher Union Bosses Losing Monopoly Privileges
Right to Work Good For Pay and Benefits — Private-Sector Compensation Growth Lags in Forced-Unionism States
Union Bosses Out For Revenge in Wisconsin — Pro-Right to Work Legislators Targeted in July ‘Recall’ Elections
Michigan Renounces Day-Care Forced Unionism — But Union Dons May Get to Keep $4.5 Million Wrung From Providers
Right to Work Bill Introduced in U.S. House — Would Bar Firing Employees For Refusal to Bankroll Unwanted Union
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.