Big Labor related violence is real. Union bosses regularly use intimidation as part of their “organizing” toolbox. As the National Review Online points out, “That’s the malevolent spirit these union jerks are expressing.” From National Review’s Jay Nordlinger: Idaho has…
Subscribe to The National Right to Work Committee® by Email While Big Labor Democrats are fleeing the state trying to avoid a vote, WSAU 550 radio hosts stay on-air to discuss the Big Labor assault on Wisconsinsituation iwith National Right…
Subscribe to The National Right to Work Committee® by Email Former Big Labor front-group Treasurer and Obama’s current Labor Secretary Hilda Solis attempted to the play the Washington game of not answering questions while trying to ramble-on long enough…
Wisconsin is on the verge of repealing most of it’s public sector monopoly bargaining provisions. S.B. 11 would also make it illegal to force most Wisconsin public sector workers to join a union or pay union dues or fees as…
Amendments 578, 255, 166, and 209 to H.R. 1 (the Continuing Resolution) will greatly limit the power of Obama Administration bureaucrats to advance their forced-unionism agenda.
Subscribe to The National Right to Work Committee® by Email Click Gov. Walker's image to send him a meesage. A major newspaper in Wisconsin is backing Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to reform the runaway power of government workers unions: Restoring Wisconsin to fiscal health is not for the squeamish. The medicine is going to be bitter. Gov. Scott Walker's proposals to strip state employee unions of much of their bargaining power illustrates just how bitter. But Walker is right to do this. He must insist that state workers pay a bigger share of their benefits. And he's right to take steps to compel them to do so. The governor is overreaching in some respects. And even if he wins the bruising fight to come in the state Capitol, he risks alienating broad swaths of independent voters. But Walker must fill a gaping budget hole of $137 million for the fiscal year that ends June 30 and a much larger imbalance in the next two-year budget. Something has to give. Walker's proposals affect virtually every unionized public worker in the state, at both the state and municipal levels. But the alternative to trimming benefits is laying off thousands of workers. The state, not to mention the economy, is better served by keeping as many of its workers on board as possible, albeit at a lower cost. Walker estimates his proposals will save the state $30 million between now and June 30 and $300 million over the course of the next two-year budget. That doesn't count savings at the local level, which should help make up for expected cuts in state aid. Our analysis:
Subscribe to The National Right to Work Committee® by Email Click Gov. Walker's image to send him a meesage. A major newspaper in Wisconsin is backing Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to reform the runaway power of government workers unions: Restoring Wisconsin to fiscal health is not for the squeamish. The medicine is going to be bitter. Gov. Scott Walker's proposals to strip state employee unions of much of their bargaining power illustrates just how bitter. But Walker is right to do this. He must insist that state workers pay a bigger share of their benefits. And he's right to take steps to compel them to do so. The governor is overreaching in some respects. And even if he wins the bruising fight to come in the state Capitol, he risks alienating broad swaths of independent voters. But Walker must fill a gaping budget hole of $137 million for the fiscal year that ends June 30 and a much larger imbalance in the next two-year budget. Something has to give. Walker's proposals affect virtually every unionized public worker in the state, at both the state and municipal levels. But the alternative to trimming benefits is laying off thousands of workers. The state, not to mention the economy, is better served by keeping as many of its workers on board as possible, albeit at a lower cost. Walker estimates his proposals will save the state $30 million between now and June 30 and $300 million over the course of the next two-year budget. That doesn't count savings at the local level, which should help make up for expected cuts in state aid. Our analysis:
Subscribe to The National Right to Work Committee® by Email Click on Lynch's image to send hima a message. New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D) might be the only thing standing between New Hampshire enacting a Right to Work law…
Subscribe to The National Right to Work Committee® by Email Kudos Go to NLRB Members For 'Encouraging' Monopolistic Unionism The four current members of the powerful National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), all appointed or reappointed by President Barack Obama, are poised to make a series of major decisions expanding forced unionism over the next few months. Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO union conglomerate, is licking his chops at this prospect -- and it's no mystery why he and other union kingpins are eager to see the Obama NLRB reinvent the federal rules for unionization campaigns. Chairman Wilma Liebman, an NLRB veteran first appointed to the agency in 1997 by then-President Bill Clinton and elevated to the leadership position by Mr. Obama in 2009, is an ex-Teamster union lawyer. And Obama appointees Craig Becker and Mark Pearce both come out of union legal ranks. More important, Ms. Liebman, Mr. Becker, and Mr. Pearce have all already demonstrated a willingness to go well beyond the pro-forced unionism letter of federal labor law to make it as difficult as they can for independent employees and businesses to avoid union monopoly control. Federal Labor Law Itself Tramples Freedom of Independent-Minded Workers Only one current NLRB member, former GOP Senate staffer Brian Hayes, has shown any real reluctance to rewrite the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) whenever they turn out to be inconvenient for union organizers. But Mr. Hayes is evidently destined to be perpetually outvoted by the three forced-unionism zealots who now sit with him on the Board. (The fifth NLRB seat remains vacant as this month's Right to Work Newsletter goes to press.)