http://www.nrtwc.org/blog News & commentary from the legislative trail Mon, 12 May 2008 13:46:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Big Labor will spend nearly half a billion dollars trying to elect Pro-Big Labor puppets who will pass the Card Check Scam Bill. Don’t just listen to us, listen to AFL-CIO bigwig Stewart Acuff. As reported by David Weigel on Reason.com: My brothers and sisters, if we go into ... http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/archives/366 The Las Vegas Sun has an interesting overview of the stakes and implications of enacting the Card Check Scam Bill. As the Sun reported, passage of the bill “. . . would for the first time in 60 years, allow workers to organize without putting the issue to a ... http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/archives/365 Writer, author, and attorney, David Limbaugh, recently brought up an issue that needs looking into. As he pointed out in a recent Creators’ Syndicate article: . . . 20 years ago, the Justice Department filed a federal civil racketeering complaint against the Teamsters, alleging the union had “made a devil’s ... http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/archives/364 Union violence is a major problem that Congress must address. Typically union thugs target non-union workers to force them to join their forced-dues-paying ranks. But sometimes, as with the recent spat with SEIU union activists, the violence is targeted at each other. http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/archives/361 The Honolulu Star Bulletin is taking on Big Labor and their local congressman, Neil Abercrombie, by opposing efforts to enact the Card Check Scam Bill, both nationally and in Hawaii. The Star proclaims that Gov. Linda Lingle “. . . rightly vetoed a bill approved by the Legislature that ... http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/archives/362 It has been nearly 30 days since the Iowa State House and Senate passed a sweeping union power grab of the state’s school boards. Despite initial indications that Democrat Gov. Chet Culver was not inclined to support the legislation, it now appears that an insider lobbying campaign by the ... http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/archives/363 After spending millions in Pennsylvania trying to defeat Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democrat primary, SEIU’s political spending spigot is once again targeting Sen. John McCain. A new ad campaign criticizes Sen. McCain for his position on health care. The size of the ad buy has not been released, ... http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/archives/360 Check out the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s (NRTWLDF) new video highlighting the indictment of 12 union officials for acts of violence against non-union employees and employers in Western New York. A local newspaper compared the acts described in the 62-page federal racketeering and extortion indictment to ... http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/archives/359 “Maintaining the secret ballot is the best way to protect workers’ privacy and to ensure workers have the ability to vote their conscience without fear of repercussion or retaliation,” Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle said in a statement upon her veto of Hawaii H.B. 2974 (a Big Labor-backed bill to replace ... http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/archives/358 Hillary Clinton’s defeat of Sen. Barack Obama keeps her hope of getting the Democrat nomination alive and she has Big Labor bosses to thank for it. An alphabet soup of labor unions — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Office ... http://www.nrtwc.org/blog/archives/357