July 2019 National Right to Work Newsletter Summary
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Teamster Thugs Bully People From Disparate Walks of Life
Longtime Windy City political kingmaker and Teamster kingpin John Coli Sr. (right, pictured here with former Mayor Rahm Emanuel) is now expected to plead guilty in a case alleging he extorted $325,000 in cash payments from the president of a…
Big Labor Pension Fund Implosion a ‘Harbinger’
The full promised benefits for roughly 4000 current retirees have plummeted. Payments for retirees and beneficiaries previously averaging $1313 a month are now down to just $570 a month.
Federal Judge Refuses to Widen Big Labor's Union-Violence Loophole
In a fiend-of-the-court brief they submitted this spring to Judge Douglas Woodcock, who is presiding over the case, top Bay State AFL-CIO bosses conceded that the "actions alleged to have been committed" by the Teamster defendants are "deeply problematic . . . ." Nevertheless, claimed the union hierarchy, "these actions may not be prosecuted under the Hobbs Act" because the defendants sought to achieve "legitimate labor ends" through their thuggery.
Teamster Review Board: Powerful Hoffa Ally Is a Racketeer
In early 2008, Barack Obama secured the backing of the Teamster political machine after secretly promising Jim Hoffa (left) he would end federal oversight over the Teamster brass if he won the Presidency. Image: Reuters In January 2015, it was…
NRTW's Michigan Dues Check-Off Victory, Big Labor "Window Periods" Shattered
When employees decide to end their union membership, Big Labor bosses often use several tricks attempting to force them to stay. Union bosses often try to use illegal membership withdrawal window periods. A “window period” is an artificially created period of…
Union Officials Can Run But Can’t Hide from ObamaCare
After spending millions in forced workers dues money to pass ObamaCare, union bosses are growing wary of the impact of the law. Of course, they are ready to ask for a taxpayer subsidy: Labor unions enthusiastically backed the Obama administration's health-care overhaul when it was up for debate. Now that the law is rolling out, some are turning sour. To offset that, the nation's largest labor groups want their lower-paid members to be able to get federal insurance subsidies while remaining on their plans. In the law, these subsidies were designed only for low-income workers without employer coverage as a way to help them buy private insurance. In early talks, the Obama administration dismissed the idea of applying the subsidies to people in union-sponsored plans, according to officials from the trade group, the National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans, that represents these insurance plans. Contacted for this article, Obama administration officials said the issue is subject to regulations still being written. Some 20 million Americans are covered by the health-care plans at issue in labor's push for subsidies. The plans are jointly managed by unions and employers and used mostly by small companies. They are popular in industries such as construction or trucking or hotels, where workers' hours fluctuate. By contrast, unionized workers at big employers such as Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. tend to have a more traditional insurance arrangement run through only one employer.