Obama Touts Right to Work?
Well, not directly, but the president did go to Right to Work North Carolina to tout the growth in manufacturing in the Tar Heel state. From Henry Payne of the Detroit News: On his…
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U.S. House Committee Hearing Exposes Weakness of Obama NLRB Appointee Argument
A hearing worth watching. The U.S. House of Representative’s Education and Workforce hearing room was the scene of the decimation Obama’s argument for making unconstitutional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) appointments and the complete discrediting of the…
'We Do Not Believe It Is a Matter of State Interest to Require Mandatory Bargaining Between a Locality' and Firefighters Union Officials
Before voters stopped them by replacing dozens of Big Labor congressmen and women with Right to Work advocates in the November 2010 elections, President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi nearly foisted a…
NLRB Pays Union Officials $768,465 to work for the Union
In many cases, “official time” is no more than taxpayer-funded no-show jobs. When union officials are on official time, they are without any direction or control from the the federal government even though taxpayers are paying. Many federal employees who have official time status work all year…
Union Organizers Read Smoke Signals
Don’t look now union organizers are looking at the growing movement to legalize marijuana as a growth opportunity. The United Food and Commerical Workers union is organizing medical pot stores in Los Angeles and have an eye on…
Michigan Big Labor At War With Worker Freedom in Michigan
Union bosses in Michigan are attempting to undercut the state’s Right to Work law and for that the Wall Street Journal takes them to task: When Michigan became the 24th right-to-work state late last…
Duh! -- UAW Boss Bob King admits Prop. 2 about Right To Work
In Michigan, UAW Boss Bob King admits that the overwhelmingly voter rejected Big Labor sponsored “Proposition 2” was an attempt to modify the state constitution to prevent Right to Work freedom from ever coming to Michigan. From Jack Spencer at…
NC Court Green Lights Big Labor, Okays Violating Workers' Privacy
"There is no legitimate purpose of labor law served by making a criminal who maliciously discloses someone's name and social security number together to intimidate that person into joining or not joining a union liable to only a wrist slap at most. Especially when a perpetrator of the same offense with any other motive faces a multi-thousand-dollar fine for every count. "The court ruling that ITPA violations by union bosses are preempted by the NLRA is, therefore, preposterous. "But ID theft need not become yet another, to borrow the words of eminent 20th Century American legal scholar Roscoe Pound, 'wrong' labor unions and their officials may 'commit to person and property . . . with impunity.' "In an essay penned back in 1958, this former Harvard School of law dean observed that labor union officials 'now stand where the king . . . stood at common law.' "Over the past five-and-a-half decades, Big Labor has acquired even more legal immunities. But Fisher could prove to be a great opportunity to begin rolling back court-created union special privileges."
Will Chris Christie Fight to Stop Big Labor From Profiteering Off Hurricane Sandy?
Early last November, an array of news outlets reported on allegations that International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW/AFL-CIO) union bosses in New York and New Jersey had sought to reap a forced-union-dues windfall from Hurricane Sandy. Whistleblowers charged that top…