March 2010 National Right to Work Newsletter Summary
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‘Green Shoots’ Sprout in Right to Work States
Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama Benefit From Major New Investments (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Although manufacturing employment nationwide continues to fall despite some signs of nascent recovery from the 2008-2009 recession, automotive manufacturing jobs appear already to be on the rise…
Taxpayers will bear the Burden for Big Labor Giveaway
Documents obtained by The Daily Caller confirm the White House is seriously considering adopting a series of proposals that would favor unionized companies bidding on federal contracts. The documents acknowledge the proposals are likely to increase the cost of…
Taxpayers Will Bear the Burden for Big Labor Giveaway
Documents obtained by The Daily Caller confirm the White House is seriously considering adopting a series of proposals that would favor unionized companies bidding on federal contracts. The documents acknowledge the proposals are likely to increase the cost of…
Obama Team: More Forced Unionism ‘Needed’
Massive Union Job Losses Make Case For ‘Card-Check’ Legislation? (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) On January 22, the U.S. Labor Department issued a report providing a snapshot, in numbers, of some of the latest damage wrought to employees, employers, and the economy as a whole by government-imposed union monopoly bargaining. The report shows that, in one major business sector after another, the jobs of workers who labor under forced unionism were far more likely to be destroyed during the 2008-2009 recession than were the jobs of union-free workers. In the hard-hit telecommunications sector, for example, the number of jobs subject to union monopoly bargaining plummeted by 20.7% last year, over four times the decline for union-free jobs. Unionized construction jobs plunged by 20.0%. Over the same period, union-free construction jobs fell by 12.4%. 'These Numbers Show a Need For Congress to Pass’ S.560/H.R.1409 The number of Big Labor-controlled manufacturing jobs declined by 14.3%, nearly four percentage points more than the decline for union-free jobs in manufacturing. Overall, unionized private-sector employment sank by 9.4% last year, a decline more than double the total private-sector job loss of 4.4%.
Localities Brace Themselves For H.R.413/S.1611
Big Labor-Appeasing GOP Politicians Abetting Obama Power Grab (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) This winter, state and local elected officials around the country are expressing their serious concerns about a proposed new federal mandate foisting union “exclusive representation” (monopoly bargaining) on…
The SEIU/ACORN Connection
Rep. Issa’s report detailing the connections between the SEIU union and the corrupt ACORN organization can be found here.
SEIU Boss to Join Deficit Reduction Panel?
Remarkably, President Obama is considering appointing SEIU union boss Andrew Stern to the new deficit reduction panel. Does the President really believe that Stern — a person whose revenue stream is increasingly…
Big Labor Blasts "Jobs" Bill – Not Enough Taxpayer Money!
Despite his role in marshalling the passage of a trillion dollars on previous stimulus legislation, Big Labor bosses are blasting Sen. Harry Reid for his new spending proposal (aka “Jobs Bill”). “If this $15 billion was the only thing [that…