Posted on Jun 18, 2008 by J. Justin Wilson
Jon’s post yesterday reminded me of a great article on the physical proximity of teachers union headquarters to state capital buildings. The American reports: Of the 25 most influential interest groups, the teachers’ union is the closest to the capitol in 14 of the 50 states.
Posted on Jun 17, 2008 by Jon Berry
Sunday’s Newark Star-Ledger brings word that a city high school principal has been warned by the school district after he sent out a memo on district letterhead asking employees to buy tickets to a political fundraiser. But the real story is the reaction from Newark Teachers Union President Joseph Del Grosso, who supplied this amazing […]
Posted on by Minnesotans for Employee Freedom
We’re spreading the word about Al Franken’s effort to deny workers their private ballot rights. We are further raising the stakes on a critically important issue facing Minnesotans and all Americans: the loss of our democratic rights in the workplace. In an OpEd this week in Minnesota, we wrote: Al Franken, supposed champion of the little […]
Posted on Jun 13, 2008 by Tracie Gibler
In the escalating debate regarding the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act, much-deserved attention is paid to labor bosses’ ploy to take away workers’ rights to a private ballot in unionization votes. What is often forgotten is that EFCA has the potential to rob workers of an additional private ballot vote. Under EFCA, if a contract […]
Posted on by Tracie Gibler
A federal judge has ruled that 150 chicken plant production line workers, who are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers and International Brotherhood of Teamsters, can sue their employer for time spent changing their clothes because their collective bargaining agreement wasn’t specific enough: At bottom, defendant posits an overly expansive definition of ‘clothes’ […]
Posted on by J. Justin Wilson
Union bosses and their lackeys in Congress cling to the faulty notion that the dramatic declines in union membership are the result of employeer intimidation. Right. Setting aside all the companies put under by union-driven labor costs, labor bosses refuse to recognize that many employees have no need for a union. After all, this isn’t […]
Posted on Jun 12, 2008 by Tracie Gibler
There is more evidence today that the Supreme Court might be the last line of defense against the the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act. Harold Coxson, a management attorney with Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart in Washington, D.C., argues that EFCA potentially violates the Takings Clause of the Constitution and that the legislation contradicts […]
Posted on by J. Justin Wilson
I came across two great letters to the editor in Colorado this week holding Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall accountable for his unconscionable support of the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act. Mark Davidson wrote in today’s Denver Post: There has been nothing coy about Democratic candidates’ courtship of big labor this election year. Colorado’s own senatorial candidate, […]
