compulsory unionism

New Right to Work Podcast: Big Labor's Bailout

Will Collins — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:14:55 -0500

In this week's episode, Foundation VP Stefan Gleason sits down with Stanley Greer, Senior Research Director at the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, to discuss the proposed $25+ billion auto industry and UAW union bailout, and the close connection between compulsory unionism and Detroit's economic woes. Check it out:

New Right to Work Video: Should the Government Bail Out the Auto Industry's Compulsory Unionism?

Patrick Semmens — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:43:34 -0500

Interested in learning about the connection between the Big Three auto bailout and compulsory unionism? Check out the latest Right to Work video:

The UAW has consistently leveraged its position as the Big Three's monopoly bargaining agent to extend forced unionism throughout the automotive sector. Now they're screaming for a federal bailout to save the entire industry. Should government really be in the businesses of saving compulsory unionism?

The answer, of course, is no. Forced unionism should be eliminated, not subsidized.

New Right to Work Podcast: Compulsory Unionism and Public Education

Will Collins — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:56:00 -0500

In the latest episode, Foundation VP Stefan Gleason sits down with Matt Brouillette of the Pennsylvania-based Commonwealth Foundation to discuss the compulsory unionism stranglehold over much of America's educational system. Check it out:

New Right to Work Video: Teacher Strikes and Forced Unionism

Will Collins — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:59:56 -0400

Our latest Right to Work video features Simon Campbell, a concerned Pennsylvania parent who founded stopteacherstrikes.org in the wake of a debilitating public school strike. At the annual Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism Conference, Campbell explained the connection between compulsory unionism and teacher strikes:

As always, check back regularly at the Foundation's YouTube Channel for more Right to Work video updates.

Foundation Win Nets $250,000 Refund from Union for Nonunion Workers

Will Collins — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:57:15 -0400

Federal labor board charges filed by National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys has just paid off big for a group of Georgia employees... to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars.

In September of 2005, Foundation staff attorneys filed unfair labor practice charges against the International Longshoreman's Local 1414 union in Savannah, Georgia. The notoriously thuggish longshoremen union bosses had been forcing nonmember employees to pay dues to seek work at a union-controlled hiring hall. This policy violated Georgia's Right to Work law, which holds that workers cannot be forced to pay any dues if they choose not to belong to a union.

USA Today Comes Out Against Card Check Instant Organizing

Will Collins — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:29:02 -0400

Today USA Today, the largest circulation newspaper in the country, editorializes against efforts to impose the coercive Card Check Instant Organizing on every worker in America:

Under the current system, once 30% of a company's workers sign union authorization cards, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administers a confidential vote, typically 39 days after it receives the cards. The union and employer campaign for votes.

Under a major rewrite of U.S. labor law being promoted by unions, when more than 50% of employees sign authorization cards, the NLRB would have to recognize the new union. No campaign. No secret ballot.

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Pennsylvania Teacher Union Bosses Fight to Protect their Stranglehold on Keystone State Schools, Teachers

Will Collins — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:44:55 -0400

Via the Education Intelligence Agency, we learn that (surprise!) Pennsylvania teacher unions oppose attempts to improve public education through the enactment of reforms that could threaten the teacher union monopoly and forced-dues gravy train (emphasis mine):

New Right to Work Video Report: "In The Dark"

Will Collins — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:29:17 -0400

Check out the Foundation's latest Right to Work Video Report on compulsory unionism in the workplace. John McHenry, a Philadelphia worker and union member his entire life, never knew he could resign his formal union membership and stop paying full union dues. But when union bosses rammed a corrupt pension plan down his throat, he turned to the National Right to Work Foundation for help:

Even Far Left Icon George McGovern Says "No" to Coercive Card Check Organizing

Patrick Semmens — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:15 -0400

Far Left stalwart and former Democratic nominee for President George McGovern comes out swinging in the pages of the Wall Street Journal against Big Labor's demand for mandating coercive card check in union organizing drives:

Voting is an immense privilege.

That is why I am concerned about a new development that could deny this freedom to many Americans. As a longtime friend of labor unions, I must raise my voice against pending legislation I see as a disturbing and undemocratic overreach not in the interest of either management or labor.

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Expect Big Labor Power Grabs Next Year

Will Collins — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:55:10 -0400

Foundation VP Stefan Gleason has an op-ed up over at Human Events on union political activism in the wake of the Supreme Court's favorable Chamber v. Brown decision. Money quote:

Although the court ruled in favor of employer free speech and employee free choice, workers remain vulnerable to an onslaught of intimidation brought on by card-check organizing drives. In one article about the ruling, an AFL-CIO union lawyer snickered that the outcome would only encourage union bosses to pour more money into passing the erroneously titled “Employee Free Choice Act.” That bill passed the House this year, but a filibuster has stalled it in the Senate. Even if Big Labor and its allies in the Senate don’t get it through this year, you can be sure they’ll be back in ’09.

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