May 2014 National Right to Work Newsletter Summary
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If you missed it, UAW was rejected by Tenn. VW Employees on Friday
From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation release Friday: Washington, DC (February 14, 2014) – Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement after the announcement today that a majority of workers…
This Week's NRTW Supreme Court Brief Regarding Card-Check
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Attorney William Messenger filed the Foundation’s brief in the UNITE HERE LOCAL 355 v. MARTIN MULHALL Supreme Court case that is set to end card-check forced unionism as we know it. We have made…
Will Richard Griffin Become 'the First Active Defendant in a RICO Suit' to Secure Confirmation as NLRB General Counsel?
The National Right to Work Committee is now mobilizing opposition to Senate confirmation of ex-union lawyer Richard Griffin as the top attorney for the powerful National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The track record Griffin established as a pro-forced unionism zealot…
Obama NLRB Hires Former AFSCME, AFT, HRC, and Janet Reno Flack
From the NLRB’s Andrew Martin: Gregory J. King joined the NLRB as Director of the Office of Public Affairs on June 16, 2013. Gregory will advise the Chairman, the Acting General Counsel and other NLRB senior leaders on media relations,…
NC Court Green Lights Big Labor, Okays Violating Workers' Privacy
"There is no legitimate purpose of labor law served by making a criminal who maliciously discloses someone's name and social security number together to intimidate that person into joining or not joining a union liable to only a wrist slap at most. Especially when a perpetrator of the same offense with any other motive faces a multi-thousand-dollar fine for every count. "The court ruling that ITPA violations by union bosses are preempted by the NLRA is, therefore, preposterous. "But ID theft need not become yet another, to borrow the words of eminent 20th Century American legal scholar Roscoe Pound, 'wrong' labor unions and their officials may 'commit to person and property . . . with impunity.' "In an essay penned back in 1958, this former Harvard School of law dean observed that labor union officials 'now stand where the king . . . stood at common law.' "Over the past five-and-a-half decades, Big Labor has acquired even more legal immunities. But Fisher could prove to be a great opportunity to begin rolling back court-created union special privileges."
Step Aside
Forty US Senators, led by Sen. Orrin Hatch, are demanding that members of the National Labor Relations Board step aside until valid and legal appointments can be made. The letter to Sharon Block and Richard F. Griffin, Jr., the two…
White House Blast Court Decision
The White House was none to pleased to see their abuse power invalidated by a unanimous federal court. White House spokesman Jay Carney derided the decision as ““It’s one court, one case, one company.” Our response: and there’s only…
Teamsters Argue Against Obama Recess Appointment Fight
When President Obama appointed members to the National Labor Relations Board when Congress was in session, he violated the Constitution and the National Right to Work Legal Foundation went right to work. We filed a lawsuit in federal court and from the initial oral arguments, things went well. Interesting, we have a new ally in the fight -- an Oklahoma local of the Teamsters union: An Oklahoma local of the Teamsters Union is disputing recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), charging that recess appointments were made while the U.S. Senate was not in recess, according to legal documents obtained by The Daily Caller. “The union disputes that the board is properly and sufficiently constituted, as ‘recess’ appointments (to NLRB) were made when there was no recess,” according to a Dec. 12, 2012 affidavit signed by Teamsters Local 523 President Gary Ketchum.