Washington Teacher's Union Boss: What's Next
Mark Mix, the president of the National Right to Work Foundation, takes to the pages of the Washington Examiner to ask, ” What’s next for the Washington Teacher’s Union Chief?”…
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Big Labor, Big Auto and Big Government
It’s an old partnership that continues to prosper under the Obama administration. Chris Horner takes a look at this incestuous relationship between Big Labor unions, big government and “green” spending programs.
Lame Duck Session?
We have warned readers about the pending threat of the lame duck session that will occur between Election Day and Christmas. Big Labor is making a big push to enact their legislative schemes during this time — especially if the…
Feingold's "Regular People"
Forced unionism apologist, Sen. Russ Feingold is trying to create the notion that he is an outsider who is not influenced by special interests. So much so, he is bragging about it in a new campaign ad. Guess what…
Feingold's "Regular People"
Forced unionism apologist, Sen. Russ Feingold is trying to create the notion that he is an outsider who is not influenced by special interests. So much so, he is bragging about it in a new campaign ad. Guess what…
Forced-Unionism Issue Hot in West Virginia
(Source: August 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Like President Obama, Gov. Joe Manchin has an established record of supporting union monopoly bargaining. As a U.S. senator, Mr. Manchin could help Big Labor corral state and local employees nationwide into unions. Credit: blogs.wvgazette.com Would-Be U.S. Senators Urged to Stand Up to Big Labor Bosses West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is an unabashed proponent of labor laws foisting union monopoly bargaining on public employees and government agencies. As recently as this June, in an interview with the Charleston Daily Mail, Mr. Manchin endorsed a state law forcing local school boards in West Virginia to grant a single teacher union the power to speak for all teachers in their district, including those who don't want to join. According to the Daily Mail's account, the governor actually said that such a monopoly-bargaining law would constitute a "solution" to "West Virginia's education woes"! Fortunately for independent-minded public employees and taxpayers, West Virginia legislators have up to now refused to send to the governor's desk legislation handing government union bosses monopoly power to bargain over public employee salaries, benefits, and work rules.
Union Dons Take Care of Themselves, Not Workers
(Source: August 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Unlike Unionized Workers' Pension Funds, Union Bosses' Are Secure Mark Mix: Enactment of a National Right to Work law "would greatly strengthen union officials' incentive to do what's best for the employees they purport to represent, rather than feather their own nests." Credit: C-SPAN There's no denying the fact that federal labor law grants union officials extraordinary power over unionized employees. More candid apologists for union monopoly bargaining and forced union dues and fees have long acknowledged that fact. Authorizing union bosses to get workers who don't wish to join a union fired for refusing to fork over union dues or fees is coercion, blunt Big Labor apologists concede, but it is for the workers' "own good." In Practice, Forced Unionism Is Impossible to Defend Big Labor academic Allan Pulsipher once explicitly defended compulsory unionism as a "legitimate form of coercion in a free market economy"! Reasonable people may disagree about whether it is theoretically possible that a worker could benefit from being forced to allow an unwanted union to have "exclusive" power to negotiate
DISCLOSE Act -- Forced Union Dues is the Issue
President Obama and his congressional allies insist on limiting the ability of corporations and others to spend money in elections. Their lobbyist-loophole ridden fix is the so-called DISCLOSE Act — which would restrict certain spending while allowing big labor union officials…
Another Million Dollars on Big Labor Attack Ads
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is spending almost $1 million in attack ads in Missouri alone — targeting Republican Senate candidate Roy Blunt. Blunt — who has not taken the Right to Work pledge opposing Card…