Right to Work Blog

An AT&T employee has sought and received support from the National Right to Work Foundation over the illegal threats the union made when he expressed his desire not to strike.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), a Big Labor supporter and benefactor, said on ABC’s “This Week” that the coercive Card Check Bill may not have 60 votes to get through the Senate.

The fact is that no one really knows at this point whether the votes are there. But one thing is sure: Without your continued efforts to contact your elected officials, Big Labor will get the votes they need to pass the bill. Keep the pressure on!

The announcement of a near half a million dollar ad campaign in Missouri by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for Democrat Jay Nixon’s campaign for Governor adds to the growing total of over $75 million of political spending this election cycle.

In addition to the quarter of a billion dollars the AFL-CIO will spend to elect pro-Big Labor puppets across the nation, the Services Employees International Union (SEIU) will spend an incredible $75 million in forced-union-dues money between now and November.

The New York Times noted:

The union’s secretary-treasurer Anna Burger said the SEIU would devote money and staff to Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia. The union’s strategy appears to dovetail with the Obama campaign’s plans to compete in those states, all three of which President Bush won in 2004.

At a strategy briefing last week, campaign manager David Plouffe said “we think we’re in a very strong position” in North Carolina and Virginia and he indicated Mr. Obama would not be ceding the mountain West to Senator John McCain either. Mr. Obama chose the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs as the venue to talk up his national service agenda on Wednesday.

Ms. Burger said the union, which endorsed Senator Obama in February, would also pour resources for both the presidential contest and down-ballot races into the perennial battlegrounds of Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, among others, as well as governor’s races in Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina and Washington State.

To add insult to injury, the $75 million total does not include a $10 million bounty the union bosses have set aside to ensure that pro-Big Labor politicians don’t ever vote the interests of union members instead of the union leadership.

The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) today released results from a series of surveys in the battleground states of Minnesota, Colorado and Maine conducted by McLaughlin & Associates showing that the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill is hurting its supporters at the ballot box.

Nearly two-thirds of voters in Colorado (68%), Maine (72%) and Minnesota (65%) oppose the Card Check scam. Moreover, voters in Minnesota and Colorado would be less likely to support candidates who support elimination of workplace secret ballot elections. Specifically, a plurality of voters would be less likely to vote for Mark Udall (44%) and Al Franken (41%) if they support this legislation.

Missouri State Rep. Steve Hunter (R-Joplin), a champion of workers’ rights, has introduced House Bill 1811, a bill that would allow Missouri to enjoy the benefits of a Right to Work law. And it appears his efforts are paying dividends.

For too long, Missouri has lost opportunities to bring jobs into the state because six of the states bordering Missouri have enacted Right to Work laws.

The Columbia Tribune reports:

Greg Mourad, legislative director for the National Right to Work Committee, said right-to-work states have experienced greater job growth. He said that Oklahoma, which passed a right-to-work law in 2001, went from last to first in the nation in job growth.

“A lot of companies will not even consider moving into non-right-to-work states,” Mourad said.