October 2017 National Right To Work Newsletter Summary
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‘It’s Kind of an Airy, Dismissive Attitude’
[Obama NLRB Board Members Flashback, April 2016] Judge Berates Obama Bureaucrats for Violating Workers’ Privacy Right to Work advocates are hopeful that a federal judge’s willingness to stand up to union-label President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) bureaucrats…
SCOTUS To Hear Right To Work for Public Servants Case
U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear First Amendment Challenge to Forced Union Fees for Government Workers Worker Advocate: Injustice to the Free Speech rights of public school teachers, public safety officials, and other government workers close to coming to…
Big Labor-Dominated States Awash in Red Ink
Unchaining Employees Can Save Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey For years, government union monopolists have been ripping off ordinary, hardworking taxpayers in Illinois, Connecticut and New Jersey — all states where both private- and public-sector employees may be forced to…
Punish Iowa For Reforming Its Labor Laws?!
Hawkeye State Municipalities Threatened by Federal Bureaucrats For years, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) bureaucrats have exploited a vague provision in the 1964 Urban Mass Transportation Act (UMTA) to bully municipalities across America. Time and again, DOL functionaries have invoked…
An Overdue End to the Obama NLRB’s Reign?
William Emanuel testifies before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions during his nominations hearing to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, on July 13, 2017. (Since the printing of this newsletter article, both Trump NLRB…
Boston Teamster-Violence Case Goes to Trial
When Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi arrived on the set in Milton, Mass., Teamster tough John Fidler allegedly reached into her vehicle and threatened, “I’ll smash your pretty little face.” (After this article went to the printer, these four union…
Government Union Bosses Victimize Sick Veterans
David Shulkin, the VA secretary, is well aware that far too many VA employee hours are “being spent away from clinical duties and other duties” due to union “official time.” But his power to stop it is minimal. Nearly 350…
Union Boss Demands Must Be Met or Police Must Stop Saving Lives
This summer, law enforcement officials in Stamford, Conn., responded to a sharp increase in drug overdose deaths in their jurisdiction by furnishing police with Narcan kits, which can be life-saving in emergency situations caused by opioid abuse. But government union…