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.”
March National Right to Work Committee newsletter Special Supplement online
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Abby Rapoport, a staff writer for the pro-forced unionism American Prospect, fears the Right to Work victory in Indiana represents “a turning point in American labor history,” and “not simply a loss in power” for the state’s union officials.
An article by Ms. Rapoport published online the day Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the Right to Work Bill into law even bore the title, “Where Indiana Goes, So Goes the Nation.”
Headlines from the Special Supplement:
Freedom-Loving Hoosiers’ Persistence Pays Off — Years of Lobbying Efforts Make Indiana 23rd Right to Work State
Right to Work: Rx For Job-Losing Indiana — History Indicates Right to Work Law Will Help Economy Rebound
More State Battles Ahead For Right to Work — Grass-Roots Citizens’ Groups Bolstered by Recent Indiana Victory
Union Monopolists Already Vowing to Get Revenge — But Right to Work Supporters Are Ready to Parry Counterattacks
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.