High Court Ponders Compulsory Union Dues
Judges and Legislators Have Duty to Protect Employees’ Free Speech (click to download newsletter) Today roughly 20 states have laws on the books explicitly requiring all or…
Stay tuned for new legal development in the UAW VW Chattanooga situation
Stay tuned for new legal development by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in the UAW VW Chattanooga situation……
Volkswagen Executives Apparently Colluding With Big Labor Bosses to Overturn Chattanooga Workers' Vote Against Unionization
Last month, Volkswagen executives who were facing intense pressure from German union officials to facilitate the unionization of the VW assembly plant located in Right to Work Tennessee did practically everything they could to help United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union…
Are Volkswagen Executives Breaking Federal Law to Assist UAW Union Organizers?
As Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former chief economist with the U.S. Labor Department and now a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, reported in a commentary appearing yesterday on the web site RealClearMarkets, Volkswagen (VW) executives appear to be violating U.S.
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…
'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…
Wisconsin Union Dons Pursue Judicial Bailout
Government Union Bosses Press State Supreme Court to Gut Act 10 (Click here to download the National Right to Work Committee’s November-December 2013 Newsletter) Government union bosses haven’t been able to overturn Wisconsin’s Act 10, which restricts their compulsory- unionism…
Obama Administration Lawyer: Coercive 'Card Checks' Are a 'Favored Element of National Labor Policy'
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the principal federal law regulating employer-employee relations in America’s private sector, purports to uphold the right to “form, join or assist labor organizations” and also “the right to refrain from” forming, joining or assisting…