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Exactly What Does Volkswagen Chattanooga's CEO Mean by 'Neutrality'?
Yesterday morning, front-line employees at the Volkwagen (VW) assembly plant located in Chattanooga, Tenn., learned that a vote will be held next week to determine whether or not officers of a single union, the United Auto Workers (UAW), will acquire…
Top Union Bosses: We Spent Workers' Forced Dues to Help Pass, Safeguard a Law That Will Likely 'Cut Living Standards' For Workers
As public opposition to the so-called Affordable Care Act of 2010, also known as ObamaCare, continues to mount, union officials are loudly decrying the signature legislative achievement of the President they played a critical role in electing in 2008 and…
What the Fahrvergnügen? VW Union Boss Says U.S. Southern States Worse Than North Korea
In the 1990s, Volkswagen (VW) ran an advertising campaign with Fahrvergnügen, a mysterious German word that seemed to have no equivalent in the English language. Maybe, Detlef Wetzel, Germany’s IG Metall Union Chairman…
Act 10 Has Been a Boon For the Badger State, But Much More Needs to Be Done in Order to 'Save' Wisconsin
Tim Stanley is a British historian and pundit who writes mostly about the U.S. In a recent commentary for The Daily Telegraph in London, Stanley calls attention to the success of Wisconsin’s Act 1o, a nearly three-year-old budget reform package…
NRTW’s Supreme Court Case Exposes Compulsory Unionism Fallacies
Last week’s National Right to Work Foundation’s U.S. Supreme Court case, Pamela Harris v Gov. Pat Quinn (IL), continues to drive discussions around the country about whether it is in the public interest to allow public sector compulsory unionism. The…
Union Lawyer: An Employee Who Resists Paying Forced Fees For Big Labor Monopoly Bargaining That Harms Him Is a 'Free Rider'
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Harris v. Quinn, a high-stakes labor-policy case in which the High Court is being directly urged, for the first time in more three decades, to overturn on First Amendment grounds state…
Gov. Pat Quinn's SEIU Quid Quo Pro?
During his political career, [Illinois Governor] Quinn has taken nearly $5 million in campaign contributions from the service employees union. "A couple weeks after the executive order was signed and the union campaign began, there was Governor Quinn on TV with the SEIU banner behind him and the SEIU leadership behind him, and I couldn't help but think that this was an exchange, a deal," said Pam Harris.
'What We Are Talking About Is Unionizing Family Members, Parents in a Home'
Channel 7 in Chicago, an ABC-TV affiliate, aired a news story late last week regarding Harris v. Quinn, a U.S. Supreme Court case in which a National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorney is representing eight Illinois home care…