May 2014 National Right to Work Newsletter Summary
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Culinary Union Bosses Want Someone Else to 'Bear the Cost of the Union's Big Mistake'
Notwithstanding the victory dance the President performed last week in celebration of the reported 7.1 million sign-ups for health exchanges established by the so-called Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, across the country countless millions of employees and business owners…
Government Union Bosses Are in Denial Regarding Detroit Bankruptcy
Many parties share the blame for the fiscal debacle that led to Detroit’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing this July, which this Tuesday was approved, over union bosses’ loud and angry objects, by a federal judge. The primary culprits are, without…
Top Union Bosses Keep Poor-Mouthing Themselves Even as They Throw Their Political Weight Around
A Christian Science Monitor (CSM) report published yesterday (see the link below) focuses on Big Labor’s forced union dues-fueled efforts to oust from office next year six Republican governors first elected in 2010. The account, by CSM staff writer Mark…
Top Union Bosses to Workers: We Spent Vast Sums of Your Forced-Dues Money to Enact a Law That Will Hurt You
With every passing day, it seems, union bosses are decrying more loudly the signal legislative achievement of the President they played a critical role in electing in 2008 and reelecting in 2012. In a commentary for Forbes this week (see…
Big Labor Massachusetts Governor Wastes Taxpayers' Money
The 2.8 million members and supporters of the National Right to Work Committee and many other like-minded Americans oppose union-only “project labor agreements” (or PLAs) on taxpayer-funded projects primarily because they force nonunion companies to impose union monopoly bargaining on…
Ultimate Dirty Fighters
In New York, where big labor has its grips on power, union influence has prevented the Ultimate Fighting Championship from coming to the Empire State — which would bring jobs and needed revenue. The Wall Street Journal notes: The…
California Learning Money Can't Buy Union Boss Peace
In the Golden State, union bosses proudly wield their monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges, and seem to have everything they want. They control lopsided majorities in both chambers of the Legislature. Statewide officeholders from Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown on down…
Will Chris Christie Fight to Stop Big Labor From Profiteering Off Hurricane Sandy?
Early last November, an array of news outlets reported on allegations that International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW/AFL-CIO) union bosses in New York and New Jersey had sought to reap a forced-union-dues windfall from Hurricane Sandy. Whistleblowers charged that top…