Posts Tagged ‘Big Labor’
NLRB Approves Pro-Union “Ambush Election” Final Rule
Once again the Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken up the “ambush” rule, allowing union bosses free rein to do whatever it takes to win a representation election. …
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips, March 21, 2014
 Bus company cuts ties with union in Spring Grove Hanover (PA) Evening Sun, March 14, 2014 More than half the drivers of Teamsters Local 776 signed a petition asking…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 07, 2014
The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs Wall Street Journal Online, March 6, 2014 It’s an extraordinary thing, in a political age obsessed with campaign money, that nobody…
Read MoreHofstra University Professor Calls for “Civil Disobedience” to Save Big Labor
University Professor Alan Singer, recommends breaking laws in light to Big Labor’s declining membership, and the Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court decision, in huffingtonpost.com The entire organized labor movement is in a…
Read MoreUnion Political Power Stronger Than Ever
An editorial from the Orange County Register outlines why Big Labor must rely on its political power. Despite favoritism from the Obama administration – privileging the United Auto Workers over…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, February 7, 2014
Worker Advocate Reacts to Volkswagen’s Request for NLRB Union Election www.nrtw.org, February 3, 2014 Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement after the…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Pour Money into California Mayoral Campaign
Millions in forced dues are being poured into the San Diego mayoral race by union bosses. Mark Walker of UTSanDiego.com, has the story: Of the more than $3.3 million Alvarez and independent…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips December 27, 2013
Federal Labor Law Is Anti-Free Speech NILRR, December 25, 2013 Now imagine that, after Smith has been formally seated on the council, you attend a public meeting sponsored by…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, December 20, 2013
One Breach of Basic Legal Principles Doesn’t Warrant Another www.nilrr.org, December 15, 2013 Unfortunately, in the U.S. federal labor policy routinely breaches the personal right to choose one’s own representative.…
Read MoreUAW and GM Strangely Silent on GM Stock Sale
Sean Higgins comments on the notable lack of response from the UAW and the AFL-CIO. The sale meant that taxpayers were losing $10 billion, so some extra justification was necessary. GM…
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