United Airlines Worker Files Lawsuit Challenging Forced Union Dues
Foundation attorneys argue IAM union opt-out requirement to escape payment for union officials’ political activities violates Supreme Court’s Janus precedent.
Right to Work Expands U.S. Senate Support
After the defeats of Big Labor incumbents Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly, Claire McCaskill, and Bill Nelson, pictured clockwise starting from the upper left, U.S. Senate support for forced-dues repeal will be at an all-time high this year. sources: Credit –…
Obama Judges Threaten Right To Work Laws
Big Labor Senators Aim to Cement Courts’ Pro-Forced Unionism Bias Even as the number of Right to Work states and the share of all U.S. employees protected from compulsory unionism grew rapidly from early 2012 through early last year, the…
‘It’s Kind of an Airy, Dismissive Attitude’
[Obama NLRB Board Members Flashback, April 2016] Judge Berates Obama Bureaucrats for Violating Workers’ Privacy Right to Work advocates are hopeful that a federal judge’s willingness to stand up to union-label President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) bureaucrats…
Home-Care Providers Take State To Federal Court
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Press Release: Home-Care Providers Take Case Challenging State Unionization Scheme to Federal Appeals Court Right to Work Foundation assists home-based personal care providers pushed into union ranks against their will Chicago, IL (December 13, 2010) – A group of home-based personal care providers have filed a federal appeal against Governor Pat Quinn and union officials for their agreement to force Illinois’s home-based personal care providers under unwanted union boss control. With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, the personal care providers filed their appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit after a district court judge ruled against them. The appeal stems from a class-action lawsuit filed by the providers after Quinn signed an executive order designating 4,500 home-based personal care providers who care for individuals with disabilities as “public employees” and susceptible to unwanted union boss political “representation.” Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union bosses have been competing to force their monopoly control over the workers, even having out-of-state union organizers making “home visits” attempting to organize the providers through coercive “card check” unionization tactics. Not coincidentally, Quinn received the SEIU union bosses’ political endorsement and support during his closely-contested primary campaign earlier this year. Quinn’s executive order mirrored one issued by disgraced former-Governor Rod Blagojevich, later codified, in which over 20,000 personal care providers were designated as state workers for the purpose of granting union bosses monopoly “representation” and forced dues privileges over them. Quinn’s executive order expanded Blagojevich’s to cover the additional 4,500 providers who were not included in the first executive order.