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…
More than five years ago, Gerawan employees who wanted to be union-free collected roughly 3,000 signatures from fellow employees to get UFW union bosses ousted from their workplaces. Later came the fight to get their votes counted. Credit: Pick Justice…
If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ongoing efforts to prevent public employees from exercising their Janus rights fall short, his next move may well be to “tap taxpayers, rather than union members, to fund unions’ operations.” Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images…
From the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation: Labor Board Sets Trial to Prosecute Missouri IBEW Union for Making Illegal Forced Dues Demands from Nonmember IBEW officials violated nonmember worker’s rights by demanding non-chargeable union dues and failing to…
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorney and Janus case Counsel of Record Bill Messenger: The Supreme Court would be ill-advised to allow public-sector forced fees to continue “effectively as a form of protection money . . . .”…
According to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, statutes empowering government union kingpins like Alex Caputo-Pearl to create state crises serve “important interests of public employers across the nation.” Credit: Katie Falkenberg/Los Angeles Times Does California Attorney General Love Union Don-Created…
From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: Today, at the Franklin County Circuit Court, three Kentucky workers with free legal aid from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys successfully defended the Blue Grass state’s Right…
As eminent labor-law scholar Clyde Summers recognized, union officials “want unchallenged control over all aspects of the [workplace] contract, including its grievance procedure and arbitration which they created.” Image: University of Pennsylvania Law School Late last month, a group of…