Unions take Michigan right-to-work fight to federal courtsThe Detroit NewsThe state law authorizes a civil fine of up to $500 for forcing or trying to compel an employee to financially support a labor union, which is barred…
Labor unions file suit to try to overturn Michigan right-to-work lawThe Detroit NewsThat lawsuit seeks to invalidate the public and private sector right-to-work laws on grounds the Legislature violated the Open Meetings Act while the state police…
In Vermont, private-sector and many government union bosses have long wielded the power to get employees fired for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union. However, freedom-loving state citizens, assisted by the National Right to Work Committee…
EDITORIAL: Bring up right to workWashington TimesThese laws basically ensure no person can be compelled as a condition of employment to join or pay dues to a labor union. Contrary to the…
The National Right to Work Committee has obtained copy of an SEIU “Strategic Plan” for 2013 that was sent out by SEIU Executive Committee member and Local 1 President Thomas Balanoff. Click here to download a copy of the plan…
Veteran English teacher Kristi Lacroix isn’t easily intimidated. She reports that she has been “laughed at, screamed at and spit on” due to her unabashed opposition to compulsory union dues and fees and union monopoly-bargaining abuses in K-12 public education.
More than two decades ago, a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals considered the question of whether an “employee who wishes to remain a union member but desires to contribute financially only to the…
When teacher union bosses are seeking to justify their monopoly privilege to speak for educators who don’t wish to join the union as well as union members in contract negotiations, or their power to force union nonmembers to fork over…
The Free Beacon asks an interesting question -- will Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from a case dealing with recess appointments to the NLRB? Critics of President Barack Obama’s recess appointments are calling on Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself from a potential Supreme Court hearing on the matter. The Chamber of Commerce raised the prospect of recusal, citing then-solicitor general Kagan’s defense of President Obama’s recess appointments in a previous case regarding the composition of the National Labor Relations Board. The Supreme Court invalidated more than 600 NLRB decisions in the June 2010 case New Process Steel v. NLRB because the board had been issuing decisions with only two members. Kagan defended Obama’s approach to board composition and recess appointments in several briefs, writing in April 2010 that the court “would significantly burden the rights protected” by the National Labor Relations Act if it decided against the administration. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in January ruled in Noel Canning v. NLRBthat Obama violated the Constitution when he appointed Richard Griffin and Sharon Block to the board without Senate confirmation while the upper legislative chamber was in pro forma session. Legal experts predict the case will end up in the Supreme Court.