Union-Only Port Terminal Suspends Operations
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
A case working its way through the National Labor Relations Board could have profound implications for the Girl Scouts if the union bosses get their way.
(see related National Right to Work Committee amicus brief: For this reason, the Committee strongly urges the Board not to force employers to open their doors to union organizers to make it easier for unions to cram more employees into dues paying union ranks against their will. The Committee asks the Board3 once and for all, to respect the determination of the United States Supreme Court in Lechmere, Inc. v. NLRB that “[b]y its plain terms, … the NLRA confers rights only on employees, not on unions or their nonemployee organizers.” 502 U.S. 527, 532 (1992).)
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
In many cases, employees who are denied the opportunity to vote out a union as a consequence of the Biden green light for Big Labor blocking charges never got a chance to vote on whether or not they wanted to have a union in the first place.
"Vullo makes it clear that using the threat of federal prosecution to force any employer to put employees’ Right to Work on the bargaining table violates the First Amendment.”