Indiana gets right-to-work just in time

Washington Examiner, 2/02/12

You see, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, Indiana suffered a 9.3 percent decline in its private-sector payroll employment over the past 10 years. Only two other Midwestern states, Michigan and Ohio, fared worse.

As a group, the seven Midwestern states without a right-to-work law experienced an aggregate private-sector job loss of 9 percent. Meanwhile, private-sector employment in the Midwestern right-to-work states as a group actually increased by 0.3 percent.

ANALYSIS: Indiana vote part of national trend

Watchdog.org, 2/03/2012

The National Institute for Labor Relations Research also has compiled government data that shows from 1999 to 2009 right-to-work states had a 28.3 percent growth in real personal income versus 14.7 percent growth versus non-right-to-work states.

Daniels: Phone’s ringing off the hook now that we’re right-to-work

Hotair.com, 2/03/2012

Mitch Daniels claims in a Fox News interview with Brian Kilmeade today that his phone has been pretty busy since he signed the bill yesterday — and not from Big Labor crank callers.  Business owners have already started looking at relocating to Indiana, a state with a 9.0% jobless rate, making it 38th for employment in December:

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Indiana gets right-to-work just in time

Washington Examiner, 2/02/12

You see, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, Indiana suffered a 9.3 percent decline in its private-sector payroll employment over the past 10 years. Only two other Midwestern states, Michigan and Ohio, fared worse.

As a group, the seven Midwestern states without a right-to-work law experienced an aggregate private-sector job loss of 9 percent. Meanwhile, private-sector employment in the Midwestern right-to-work states as a group actually increased by 0.3 percent.

ANALYSIS: Indiana vote part of national trend

Watchdog.org, 2/03/2012

The National Institute for Labor Relations Research also has compiled government data that shows from 1999 to 2009 right-to-work states had a 28.3 percent growth in real personal income versus 14.7 percent growth versus non-right-to-work states.

Daniels: Phone’s ringing off the hook now that we’re right-to-work

Hotair.com, 2/03/2012

Mitch Daniels claims in a Fox News interview with Brian Kilmeade today that his phone has been pretty busy since he signed the bill yesterday — and not from Big Labor crank callers.  Business owners have already started looking at relocating to Indiana, a state with a 9.0% jobless rate, making it 38th for employment in December:

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Child-care union vote now faces federal lawsuit

Star-Tribune.com, 1/19/2012

A group of 12 child-care providers, aided by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, filed suit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis against Gov. Mark Dayton's executive order authorizing a union election. The group argues that the order is unconstitutional because it could ultimately require all providers to be represented by the union, whether they want to or not.

"In the order, the state is going to designate a representative of these providers for the purposes of petitioning the state,'' said William Messenger, an attorney for the foundation, based in Springfield, Va. "It infringes on the freedom of association — the First Amendment protects to right to associate or not associate.''

Union Bailout Update

LRI Online, 1/19/2012

On January 6 the National Right to Work Foundation filed the first of what will likely be many legal challenges to the appointments, in a joint action with the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace and the National Federation of Independent Business.  (The Foundation has consolidated its legal challenge of the appointments with its ongoing challenge of the new workplace posting rules.)

Unions occupy State House

Members fill Representatives Hall to defend bargaining rights

Concord Monitor Online, 1/20/2012

The House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services committee heard testimony on a full day of union-weakening bills inside Representatives Hall, where firefighters, teachers and other public employees filled the 400 floor seats after the crowd proved too large for a hearing room across the street.

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Airlines fail to overturn obama Rule on Union Elections

Bloomberg Online, 12/19/2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today, upholding a lower court decision, said that the National Mediation Board acted legally in changing the rule for representation elections to require the union to win a majority of votes cast rather than a majority of those eligible to vote. Previously, abstentions were effectively counted as votes against forming a union.

Local Boeing workers snubbed in settlement

Post and Courier Online, 12/19/2011

A miffed Taubman responded last week: "We're certainly happy that the case is over, and that there appears to be protection for our clients and the Charleston workers, but the idea that they were excluded in this way shows how rigged the whole process was."

Indiana may be ground zero for right-to-work fight

IBJ.COM EXTRA, December 17, 2011

“In 2012, Indiana is by far the best opportunity the right-to-work movement has,” said Stan Greer, senior research associate for the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, which is affiliated with the National Right-to-Work Committee.

  

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KNIGHT: Free speech? Put a plate on it

Washington Times Online, 12/02/2011

In Virginia, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) offers an AFL-CIO plate with the slogan "Union Labor," but drivers can't purchase a plate for "National Right to Work" whose headquarters are visible from the Beltway in Northern Virginia. Maybe the Right to Work folks just have not gotten around to it.

Republican Governors Slap Reins on Unions Undeterred by Backlash

Bloomburg Business Week Online, 12/02/2011

Lawmakers began enacting such measures in the 1930s, after federal legislation let employers that sign contracts with organized labor fire workers who refuse to join unions, according to the National Right-to-Work Legal Defense Foundation Inc. In 2001, Oklahoma became the 22nd state to add such rules.

N.C. GOP presses Democrats to hire locals for convention

Washington Times Online, 12/04/2011

The Democratic National Committee’s pledge to use union contractors at its 2012 convention in Charlotte, N.C., is getting pushback from Republican state lawmakers who say the practice is undercutting local companies.

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Why "Right to Work" Opponents Are Wrong

Indianapolis Examiner Online, 11/28/2011

After speaking to about half a dozen or so, I have come to the conclusion that the arguments against RTW are not based on logic, but based on emotion; albeit the emotion is fear and it is the most powerful of emotions, but it still a pathos-driven argument.

Labor board broke federal law on Boeing suit

Washington Examiner Online, 11/27/2011

Cause of Action, a conservative government accountability nonprofit, has obtained emails through a Freedom of Information Act request showing then-NLRB Chairwoman Wilma Liebman, NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon and NLRB Public Affairs Director Nancy Cleeland coordinating the board's response to its own decision to sue Boeing for opening a factory in the right to work state of South Carolina.

Tower Defense and Aerospace Factory Workers Party at Lunch

MyfoxDetroit.com, 11/28/2011

There's a plant in Detroit called Tower Defense and Aerospace. The name itself gives you an idea what they do inside, but it's what we caught them doing outside during their lunch break that will shock you.

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Proof  Obama Appointee Corrupts Criminal Investigative Process, Privileged Treatment to Union Officers

Biggovernment.com, 11/18/2011

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) internal document excerpted below supports the allegation that Obama appointee John Lund has told union officials to ignore federal investigators and deal with him personally.  His actions irreversibly taint criminal investigations and subvert employee protections in favor of union bosses, while raising the prestige of his labor consultant team in Wisconsin.

Right-to-work battle begins again Tuesday

nwi.com, 11/20/2011

A Republican-controlled legislative study committee voted on party lines last month to endorse an Indiana right-to-work law, which would allow nonunion members at a union workplace to not pay fair share fees for services the union is required to provide.

Forced Unionism is a Cash Cow

Deseret News Online, 11/16/2011

According to National Institute for Labor Relations Research, 40 percent of the nation's teachers pay 65 percent of dues collected by the teachers' unions. In real numbers, teachers unions collect approximately $2.5 billion dollars each year from teachers and about $1.6 billion comes from teachers' paychecks by forced dues.

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Right to Work Increases Jobs and Choices

The Heritage Foundation, 11/09/2011

Right-to-work laws reduce the financial benefit from organizing workplaces where unions have limited support. This makes unions less aggressive and encourages business investment, creating jobs. States can and should reduce unemployment by becoming right-to-work states

Daniels eyes right-to-work legislation in final session

Indiana Business Journal Online, 11/13/2011

"It is clear to us that the votes are there to pass it. We would like to see it happen in 2012," said Greg Mourad, vice president of the National Right to Work Committee. Mourad and other "right to work" advocates have taken to calling Daniels their "silent supporter" — he's a big fan, but he's not ready to declare his love in public just yet.

Boeing: Union Reneged On Deal; NLRB Emails Shed Light

Inverstors.com, 11/10/2011

The aerospace giant claims IAM revoked the offer after Boeing had accepted it. If true, that would suggest that IAM was interested in pursuing the case as a test of the NLRB's power under the Obama administration.

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Teacher challenges plan in Miami-Dade

The Miami Herald Online, 11/05/2011

Attorneys with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation — a nonprofit against “compulsory unionism” based outside Washington, D.C. — are representing Beightol. He is a former candidate for UTD president. He has since been expelled from the union and is not a paying member.

John Kasich & Scott Walker on Ohio's Uphill Battle Against Government Unions

Weekly Standard Online, 11/06/2011

And yet, while a similar level of opposition to limiting "collective bargaining rights" existed in Wisconsin, the reform has succeeded, so far, in the Badger state. Why are the Ohio reformers much worse off? There are at least six significant differences between the two states.

Pension Trusts Strapped

Wall Street Journal Online, 11/06/2011

The biggest such fund—a trio of United Auto Worker trusts covering benefits for more than 820,000 people, including Detroit auto-maker retirees and their dependents—is underfunded by nearly $20 billion, according to trust documents filed with the U.S. Labor Department last month.

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National Right to Work Committee:  Big Labor wages war on Ohio's private sector

cincinatti.com, 11/02/2011

All five of these economic laggards have something in common: They lack a Right to Work law protecting employees' freedom to refuse to join or pay dues or fees to an unwanted union, without being fired as a consequence. In fact, 13 of the 14 states with the lowest 2000-2010 private-sector compensation growth don't have Right to Work laws.

Labor Department offficial Advises Unions to Circumvent Disclosure Rules

biggovernment.com, 11/03/2011

Now we have well-sourced evidence that Director John Lund is telling union officials to bypass Department of Labor investigators and work with him personally.  Imagine if U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro invited delinquent reporting corporate presidents and treasurers to deal with her directly and ignore SEC personnel.

Minnesota Governor Should Look to California, Not Michigan, on Unionization of Child Care Providers

Mackinac.org, 11/01/2011

Documents released as part of a federal lawsuit filed by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and made public here for the first time suggest there was early and direct involvement by Gov. Granholm and her legal staff in the setup that allowed this stealth unionization to occur.

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