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Congressional Appropriators Can Stop Implementation of Obama NLRB Power Grabs

On 04/17/2017

Since Barack Obama’s handpicked appointees took full control over the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in early 2010, they have executed a series of power grabs that are clearly intended to help union officials seize monopoly-bargaining power over as many workers as possible. Today, three months after the Obama presidency concluded, his appointees’ schemes to promote compulsory unionism by regulatory fiat continue. One of the Obama NLRB’s most egregious and destructive rulings was issued on August 27, 2015. Obama-selected Chairman Mark Pearce and [...]

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‘This Is Pro-Worker, This Is Pro-Community’

On 03/13/2017

Back in February 2009, one of the first actions Barack Obama took after settling in at the White House was to issue Executive Order 13502, which promotes union-only “project labor agreements” (PLAs) on federally funded public works. President Trump pledged to Right to Work supporters last year that he would oppose such anti-competitive PLAs if elected. At this point, E.O.13502 remains on the books. Consequently, it continues to pressure federal agencies to acquiesce to PLAs on all large public works. [...]

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Obama Administration’s ‘Parting Gift’ to Ohio Iron Workers: Steep Pension Benefit Cuts?!

On 01/19/2017

Just over two years ago, Barack Obama signed a measure altering 40 years of labor law, and paving the way for unprecedented cuts in benefits for current retirees in troubled multiemployer pension plans. As of early 2017, according to nationally syndicated financial columnist Terry Savage, 67 multiemployer plans covering nearly a million workers — virtually all if not all of them unionized — have already “filed with the government to be classified as ‘critical and declining.’” Under the so-called “Multiemployer Pension [...]

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Bureaucrats Will Resist Efforts to Undo Big Labor Power Grabs

On 12/28/2016

Thumbing their noses at Right to Work supporters and independent-minded employees, and at their allies in Congress, President Barack Obama and his appointees have furnished Big Labor with an array of weapons to force millions of employees into unions over the past eight years. For example, just this April the Obama Labor Department finalized its “persuader” rule. It is designed to gut employees’ right to hear both sides of the story regarding union representation by making it impractical for employers [...]

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Lodestar: Whatever’s Expedient For Union Bosses

On 08/27/2016

‘I Favor Rules That Help Big Labor Get and Retain Monopoly Power’ (download the June-July 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) Six years ago this March, President Barack Obama obtained a radically pro-forced unionism National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with his 2010 “recess” appointment of once-and-future union lawyer Craig Becker. Ever since then, this federal agency has been doing everything it can to grease the skids for union-boss campaigns to seize monopoly-bargaining power over employees. For example, the Obama NLRB has relentlessly [...]

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Obama Labor Board Brings Back Pushbutton Strike Scheme

On 06/06/2016

From 1991 until 1994, the U.S. House and Senate repeatedly voted on so-called “striker replacement” legislation, introduced in Congress’s upper chamber by Big Labor Sens. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio). (Both of these politicians have since passed away.) The Kennedy-Metzenbaum scheme was designed to force employers to punish or fire workers who defy union-boss orders to participate in an economic strike. Enactment of this bill would have greatly expanded the union hierarchy’s power to force workers to pay [...]

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Pro-Right to Work Citizens Deserve a Choice

On 08/19/2014

Survey Program Turns up the Heat on Union-Label Politicians (Click here to download the July 2014 National Right To Work Committee Newsletter) One of the very first votes Colorado politician Mark Udall cast after first taking office as a U.S. senator in early January 2009 concerned the federal policy favoring the termination of employees for refusal to join or pay dues or fees to an unwanted [...]

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Big Labor Loses in Florida Special Election

On 05/02/2014

(Click here to download the April 2014 National Right To Work Committee Newsletter) Right to Work Poised to Be an Important Issue All Year Long In last month’s high-profile Florida special election to fill the U.S. House seat left vacant as a consequence of the death of GOP Congressman C.W. (Bill) Young in October 2013, Big Labor Democratic nominee Alex Sink performed just a little worse [...]

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Congressional Appropriators Can Stop Implementation of Obama NLRB Power Grabs

‘This Is Pro-Worker, This Is Pro-Community’

Obama Administration’s ‘Parting Gift’ to Ohio Iron Workers: Steep Pension Benefit Cuts?!

Bureaucrats Will Resist Efforts to Undo Big Labor Power Grabs

Obama Labor Board Brings Back Pushbutton Strike Scheme

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