Union-Only Port Terminal Suspends Operations
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
The October 2010 issue of The National Right to Work Committee Newsletter is available for download in an Adobe pdf format for your convenience to read and share. It is the Committee’s official newsletter publication that provides an excellent monthly overview of the battle against forced unionism.
October’s issue contains the following headlines:
Right to Work Poised to Gain Senate Strength — Survey Results in, Committee Members Put Heat on the Candidates
Committee’s Goal: Pro-Right to Work Congress — Survey Presses Candidates to Pledge to Roll Back Forced Unionism
Forced Unionism vs. Private Health Insurance — Big Labor Bastions See Steep Decline in Job-Based Benefits
Pennsylvania Worker Fights Union-Only PLAs — Obama Executive Order Denies Union-Free Workers a ‘Fair Shake’
Right to Work Close to Securing Historic Win — Voters Reject Pro-Union Monopoly Politicians in Alaska, Delaware
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
According to AFSCME Local 1632 President Will Harmon, Columbus Water & Power committed a grievous offense by subcontracting out the job of clearing away invasive weeds and brush spread out across two acres of its property to a tribe of roughly 40 goats without first “negotiating” with Big Labor.
One longtime IAFF official who is now in the spotlight for his crass denigration of “two-hatters” -- that is, professional firefighters who also serve as volunteers -- is Pennsylvania Democrat politician Bob Brooks.