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	<title>The National Right to Work Committee® &#187; Blog</title>
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	<description>No one should be forced to pay tribute to a union in order to get or keep a job.</description>
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		<title>Labor&#8217;s Cloak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Pittsburgh Tribune editorial entitled, &#8220;Labor&#8217;s Cloak,&#8221; finds the Department of Labor&#8217;s refusal to allow union workers to know how the union bosses are spending their dues money hypocritical:
Once more &#8212; this time in relation to labor unions&#8217; mandatory financial disclosures &#8212; Obama administration &#8220;transparency&#8221; actually is opacity that benefits big political supporters.
The Obama Labor Department [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/labors-cloak/</link>
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		<title>AFL-CIO Boss Trumka Rushed to the . . . White House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patrick O&#8217;Connor, on Politico.com,  reports the &#8220;Cadillac Tax&#8221; provisions of the Health Care bill have been altered and the White House immediately &#8220;entertained&#8221; AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka to keep him happy.  Another example of the tail wagging the dog.
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		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/afl-cio-boss-trumka-rushed-to-the-white-house/</link>
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		<title>Barron&#8217;s Cover &#8212; The $2 Trillion Hole &#8212; Thanks to Government Unions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan R. Laing of Barron&#8217;s looks at how the public sector unions are bankrupting the country with their taxpayer-funded pension plans:
Like a California Wildfire, populist rage burns over bloated executive compensation and unrepentant avarice on Wall Street.
Deserving as these targets may or may not be, most Americans have ignored at their own peril a far bigger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/2-trillion-hole-thanks-to-government-unions/</link>
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		<title>More Big Labor Handouts in California</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The potential bankruptcy of California&#8217;s government hasn&#8217;t stopped the politicians from demanding taxpayers pay more for public works projects by ensuring only Big Labor-backed construction firms get the work.  By demanding Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) politicians drive up the cost of construction by over 25% and deny more than 80% of California&#8217;s contractors the opportunity to even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/more-big-labor-handouts-in-california/</link>
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		<title>The So-Called ObamaCare Reconciliation Bill is Now Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the Link to the so-called ObamaCare reconciliation bill.
Now, the fight is on.
In just days, the U.S. House could be voting on the Big Labor paybacks in the Nationalized Health Care scheme, or the ObamaCare Bill passed by the Senate ( H.R.3590) on December 24th.
President Obama and his union boss allies in Congress continue to scheme, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/the-so-called-obamacare-reconciliation-bill-is-now-online/</link>
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		<title>$2 Million More for Political Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The SEIU, AFSCME and other groups will target 17 House Democrats with $1.7 million worth of television commercials pushing a government takeover of health care &#8212; all paid for with workers&#8217; forced-dues money.
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		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/2-million-more-for-political-ads/</link>
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		<title>Birmingham News Takes on Phony Card Check Arguments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Birmingham News:
The good news for Alabama union membership is bad news for state and national union leaders.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of union members in Alabama increased fairly significantly from 2008 to 2009. (See story here.) The portion of the state&#8217;s work force that is in a union rose from 9.8 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/birmingham-news-takes-on-phony-card-check-arguments/</link>
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		<title>Lars Larson Discusses Pitfalls of Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On his nationally-syndicated radio show, Lars Larson discusses Big Labor’s Police and Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bills (H.R. 413, S. 1611)with The National Right to Work Committee Vice President Doug Stafford.
The bills, which union bosses themselves call the greatest (potential) change in labor law in decades, would mean literally tens of millions in new dues revenue from public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/lars-larson-discusses-pitfalls-of-firefighters-monopoly-bargaining-bills/</link>
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		<title>Toe the Line or Else!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hill reports that Big Labor bosses are making threats to Democrats who don&#8217;t toe the forced unionism line.  Sen. Blanche Lincoln is the first target to feel the brunt of their new get tough campaign even though she just cosponsored   a bill (S. 1611) to federally mandate union monopoly bargaining privileges over every fire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/toe-the-line-or-else/</link>
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		<title>Right-to-Work Laws = Liberty, Prosperity, and Quality of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right-to-Work Laws: Liberty, Prosperity, and Quality of Life
By Professor Richard Vedder (Condensed from the original 10-page Article appearing in the Cato Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter 2010). Produced by the  Cato Institute.   Richard Vedder is Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University.)
The most essential ingredient embodied in the liberty championed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/right-to-work-laws-liberty-prosperity-and-quality-of-life/</link>
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		<title>It Must Be A Coincidence . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Los  Angeles Times reports that two labor unions in California have spent a  remarkable $318 million influencing public officials in the last decade.  The  Teacher Association spent $211.8 million and the California State Council of  Service Employees spent $107.4 million.   Of course, there are hundreds of other  local unions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/it-must-be-a-coincidence/</link>
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		<title>Right to Work Key For Economic Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Latest Data Show Exodus From Forced-Unionism States Continues
(Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter)
Without a doubt, much about the U.S. economy has changed since the real estate crash of 2007 and the extraordinary mortgage-loan crisis that soon followed in its wake.
However, as the dust from the recent turmoil slowly settles it is becoming clear that many important and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/right-to-work-key-for-economic-recovery/</link>
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		<title>Another ObamaCare Showdown Looms in Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Both House and Senate-Passed Measures Promote Forced Unionism
(Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter)
In November, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly adopted one version of President Obama&#8217;s health-care &#8220;reform&#8221; (H.R.3962).
And last month, exactly 60 (the minimum number necessary) U.S. senators voted to cut off continuing  debate by opponents of another version (H.R.3590). The Senate then rubber-stamped H.R.3590 while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/another-obamacare-showdown-looms-in-congress/</link>
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		<title>A Faster Track to Union-Boss Monopoly?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama Bureaucrats Keen to Help Herd Transport Workers Into Unions
(Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter)
Much that is written about American labor unions is misleading because it assumes they operate like other private, nonprofit organizations.
In key respects, this assumption is false. For example, affiliation with private organizations is, the vast majority of the time, a purely personal decision. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/a-faster-track-to-union-boss-monopoly/</link>
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		<title>‘Get the “Card-Check” Bill Passed &#8212; or Else’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big Labor Reminds Majority Leader Reid He Must Deliver on S.560
(Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter)
Neither the “Card-Check” Forced Unionism Bill’s extreme unpopularity with the public nor the obvious reluctance of several members of his own caucus on Capitol Hill to vote for this legislation can excuse Majority Leader Harry Reid from his obligation to ram it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/%e2%80%98get-the-%e2%80%9ccard-check%e2%80%9d-bill-passed-or-else%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Iowa Right to Work Law Again Under Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tensions Rise as Union Bosses’ Window of Opportunity Narrows
(Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter)
In the wake of the November 2006 elections three years ago, Big Labor strategists were confident they had won all the marbles in Iowa.
After saying nothing in public about the forced-unionism issue during that year’s campaign, victorious Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chet Culver announced his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/iowa-right-to-work-law-again-under-fire/</link>
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		<title>New &#8220;Government Union Jobs&#8221; Bill &#8212; the next &#8220;stimulus&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-CA) has another bright idea to reward government union bosses – subsidize the creation of more government union jobs with $100 billion in taxpayer money.  
(source: Michael O&#8217;Brien, The Hill)
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		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/new-government-union-jobs-bill-the-next-stimulus/</link>
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		<title>Union Agenda Advances without Votes in Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite failing legislatively to gain enough votes for the Big Labor agenda in Congress, the union boss power grab is proceeding administratively according to investigative reporter Kevin Mooney.
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		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/union-agenda-advances-without-votes-in-congress/</link>
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		<title>Committee Foils Public-Safety Union Sneak Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But Federal Forced-Unionization Scheme Is Bound to Reemerge Soon
(Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter)
It is growing very clear that Big Labor politicians know the American people do not support their scheme to establish a new federal mandate imposing union “exclusive representation” (monopoly bargaining) over state and local police, firefighters, and other public-safety employees nationwide. Jus t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/committee-foils-public-safety-union-sneak-play/</link>
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		<title>National Right to Work Vice President Blasts the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill in Testimony to Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Right To Work Committee Press Release
March 10, 2010
National Right to Work Vice President Blasts the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill in Testimony to Congress
Big Labor power grab would be a disaster for workers, taxpayers and struggling state economies
Washington, D.C (March 10, 2010) – National Right to Work Committee Vice President Doug Stafford, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nrtwc.org/national-right-to-work-vice-president-blasts-the-police-and-firefighter-monopoly-bargaining-bill-in-testimony-to-congress/</link>
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