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Union Bosses Target Pennsylvania Senator Toomey

On 09/25/2016

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Big Labor Appeasement Tactic Not Viable For Republican Candidates (download the September 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) Top union officials in the Keystone State and nationwide are now revving up their forced-dues-fueled political machine for a ferocious campaign to unseat freshman U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who is running for reelection this year. No one should be surprised by the fact that Big Labor is planning to do everything it can get away with to elect Mr. Toomey’s Democrat challenger, Katie McGinty, [...]

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Big Labor Will Sue to Perpetuate Forced Fees

On 08/27/2016

West Virginia Union Bosses Twisting Facts About ‘Exclusivity’ (download the June-July 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) Early last month, West Virginia union bosses informed the state attorney general and labor commissioner of their intent to sue to overturn S.B.1, the state Right to Work law adopted by legislators over the veto of union-label Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D) in February. The union brass’s undisguised goal is to make it mandatory that employees who are subject to “exclusive” monopoly union bargaining bankroll [...]

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West Virginia Senate Passes Right to Work Bill

On 02/08/2016

Mountain State Close to Becoming 26th to Bar Forced Union Dues (Click here to download the February 2016 National Right To Work Newsletter) Just a little over a year ago, this Newsletter singled out West Virginia for the remarkable progress it had made towards enacting a state law to protect employees from compulsory union dues and fees. The January 2015 cover article reported that in the just-concluded campaign cycle Mountain State voters had “elected a total of 37 avowedly pro-Right [...]

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West Virginia House Committee Approves Right To Work

On 01/30/2016

The West Virginia House Judiciary Committee has approved Right To Work. After hearing testimony from NRTWC VP Greg Mourad and others, Committee members conferred and voted to approve the state’s Right To Work Legislation which now head to the full House for three readings and likely final passage. Eventually, an approved Right To Work bill must be sent to WV Governor Earl Ray Tomblin for his signature or veto. From West Virginia’s Public Broadcasting: Right-to-Work Approved by House Committee The West [...]

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West Virginia Right To Work: NRTWC VP Testifies

On 01/28/2016

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Oral Testimony of Greg Mourad, National Right to Work Committee West Virginia House of Delegates Judiciary Committee Hearing on S.B. 1, H.B. 2643 and H.B. 4006, Right To Work January 28, 2016 My name is Greg Mourad. I am Vice President of the National Right to Work Committee, a 2.8 million member citizens’ organization dedicated to the elimination of compulsory unionism. On behalf of our members and of the tens of thousands of Right to Work supporters in West Virginia, I [...]

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‘Manufacturing Rebound’ in Indiana, Michigan

On 01/09/2016

States Prohibit Forced Unionism, Get ‘More . . . Opportunities’ (source: National Right To Work December 2015 Newsletter) According to the U.S. Labor Department, Indiana, which passed America’s 23rd Right to Work law in March 2012, and Michigan, which approved the 24th later the same year, respectively ranked #2 and #1 among the 50 states for manufacturing job growth last year. And this year, the good economic news has continued in the Hoosier and Wolverine States. ‘Manufacturing Investments Have [...]

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Contract-Company, Franchise Employees Targeted

On 12/19/2015

Obama NLRB Ignores 68-Year-Old Statutory Definition of ‘Employer’ (source: National Right To Work October 2015 Newsletter) In the latest of a series of bureaucratic rewrites of federal labor law that are clearly intended to help union dons secure monopoly control over as many workers as possible, President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board is targeting millions of employees of contract companies and franchises. On August 27, the Obama NLRB declared that, from now on, companies that employ subcontractors and [...]

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Pennsylvania Governor Bows to UFCW Union Dons

On 11/11/2015

Consumers, Taxpayers Keep Getting Gouged in the Keystone State (source: National Right To Work August 2015 Newsletter) Today Pennsylvania is one of just two states in which the government retains monopolies on retail sales of both liquor and wine consumed off premises. According to recent polling, ordinary citizens in Pennsylvania overwhelmingly favor privatization of the sale of alcohol. And there’s no compelling reason to believe Pennsylvania’s governor, Democrat Tom Wolf, really disagrees with the majority of his constituents [...]

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West Virginia House Committee Approves Right To Work

West Virginia Right To Work: NRTWC VP Testifies

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