NEA General Counsel: You can't separate it It's all Politics
“So you tell me how I can possibly separate NEA’s collective bargaining efforts from politics—you just can’t. It’s all politics.” (Robert…
Supreme Court To Decide, Okay to Force Union Dues for Harmful ‘Representation’?
Big Labor Lawyer Admits the Truth During Supreme Court Hearing (Click to download the March 2014 Newsletter) As regular readers of this Newsletter know, in the 24 Right to Work states, employees who refuse…
NRTW’s Supreme Court Case Exposes Compulsory Unionism Fallacies
Last week’s National Right to Work Foundation’s U.S. Supreme Court case, Pamela Harris v Gov. Pat Quinn (IL), continues to drive discussions around the country about whether it is in the public interest to allow public sector compulsory unionism. The…
Union Lawyer: An Employee Who Resists Paying Forced Fees For Big Labor Monopoly Bargaining That Harms Him Is a 'Free Rider'
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Harris v. Quinn, a high-stakes labor-policy case in which the High Court is being directly urged, for the first time in more three decades, to overturn on First Amendment grounds state…
Gov. Pat Quinn's SEIU Quid Quo Pro?
During his political career, [Illinois Governor] Quinn has taken nearly $5 million in campaign contributions from the service employees union. "A couple weeks after the executive order was signed and the union campaign began, there was Governor Quinn on TV with the SEIU banner behind him and the SEIU leadership behind him, and I couldn't help but think that this was an exchange, a deal," said Pam Harris.
'What We Are Talking About Is Unionizing Family Members, Parents in a Home'
Channel 7 in Chicago, an ABC-TV affiliate, aired a news story late last week regarding Harris v. Quinn, a U.S. Supreme Court case in which a National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorney is representing eight Illinois home care…
Labor Statutes Authorizing 'Compelled Speech and Association' Face a High Court Challenge
In yesterday’s edition of the Washington Examiner, an article by senior writer Sean Higgins (see the link below) focused on Harris v. Quinn, a case scheduled for oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on January 21. Higgins interviewed Pamela…
NRTW Fights Back Against UAW, SEIU, UNITE-HERE Schemes Against American Employees
National Right to Work President Mark Mix provides insight on current battlefronts against compulsory unionism. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has two cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. NRTW’s case …
Supreme Court to Review SEIU's Past 13 Years of Growth by Government Fiat
Ever since California Gov. Gray Davis handed over tens of thousands of parents, grandparents, and other independent personal home-care providers to SEIU union bosses, SEIU, AFSCME, and even the UAW unions have used forced-unionism state laws combined with gubernatorial and…