Unionized Officers Win Refunds in Free Speech Rights Suit

On April 28, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

From the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation:

New York public employees desperately need Right to Work protections

Rochester, NY (April 24, 2012) – Four Monroe County probation officers have won relief in their protracted federal legal battle against two government unions for violating their First Amendment rights.

The four officers, led by David Scheffer, filed the suit with free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys.

The probation officers sued Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) union and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union for deliberately violating their First Amendment rights by seizing forced union dues from their paychecks for illegal union expenditures. The officers charged that union officials were spending their forced dues on union organizing drives, despite the officers’ objections.

Read the entire release here.

 

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Another Osceola Hospital Employee Comes Forward, Hits SEIU with Federal Charge

On April 28, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

From the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation:

Union officials ignore workers’ repeated requests to resign

Kissimmee, FL (April 19, 2012) – An Osceola Regional Medical Center employee has joined two of her colleagues and filed a federal charge against a major healthcare union for repeatedly violating federal law by refusing to allow her and her coworkers to exercise their right to refrain from dues-paying union membership under Florida’s popular Right to Work law.

With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, Laura McDuffie of St. Cloud filed the charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

In December 2011, McDuffie sent a letter notifying Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers East officials that she was exercising her right to resign from union membership. Instead of acknowledging her request, SEIU officials rejected her letter because it was not “timely.” Moreover, the union continues to confiscate union dues from McDuffie’s paycheck.

Read the entire release here.

 

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Indiana Workers Ask to File Amicus Brief Defending Hoosier Right to Work Law

On April 28, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

From the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation:

Union lawyers seek to shut workers out of the proceedings

Hammond, IN (April 2, 2012) – Today, a group of Indiana workers from across the state filed a motion for leave to file an amicus brief in federal court in support of their newly-enacted Right to Work freedoms.

With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, the four workers – David Bercot, a certified wastewater operator for ITR Concession Company which services Indiana toll road rest stops in the Fort Wayne-area; Joel Tibbetts, a Minteq International assistant manager in Valparaiso; Douglas Richards, an employee with Goshen-based Cequent Towing Products; and Larry Getts, a Dana Holding Corporation tube press technician in Albion – all joined in the brief defending the law against a union-boss challenge.

International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 150 headquartered in suburban Chicago, Illinois filed the federal lawsuit in late February challenging the law and requesting an injunction against its implementation.

Read the entire release here.

 

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$2.8 Billion More in Job Training, i.e. Jobs For Big Labor Training Camps

On April 27, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

In a remarkable article in the Fiscal Times, Liz Peek looks at President’s plan to direct more tax dollars to Big Labor through so-called “green energy projects.”

The plan will require “a ‘green’ certificate for workers in government-funded construction, renewable power and energy efficient transportation industries and for manufacturers of sustainable products.” And of course those certificates will come from “the AFL-CIO’s Center for Green Jobs.” Peek writes:

Though the president has also proposed some streamlining of existing programs, he wants to expand the job training budget by $2.8 billion. While upgrading our workforce could make sense, the administration may have a secondary purpose – payback for Labor’s $400 million support of his 2008 campaign, and its expected boost to his reelection effort.

Here’s how: the government funds job training programs administered by organized labor. Through such efforts, unions can expand their outreach to the unemployed and disaffected. In the process, they sign up new workers. Meanwhile, Big Labor is offering workers “green” certification through these programs. At the same time, the White House wants to funnel money into “green” industries. It is only a matter of time before such works demand “green” certification, guaranteeing union workers preferred status. (more…)

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Union Due’s Pay for Party

On April 27, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

With the Democrat National Committee (DNC) short on funds needed for their national convention this year, Democrat party leaders have turned to Big Labor Bosses to ask that they their union treasuries pay the freight.

In 2008, Big Labor kicked in $8 million in forced-union-dues money for the convention. This year it looks like the DNC needs more than that. Bloomberg’s Hans Nichols reports that “the three-day convention will culminate in Obama’s re-nomination in Bank of America Stadium on Sept. 6. So far, the host committee in Charlotte is roughly halfway to its $36.6 million goal.”

There is little doubt Big Labor political spending will easily top the $1 billion mark this election-cycle. What’s a few million more between friends?

 

 

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Fact: Union Members Benefit from Right To Work Laws

On April 20, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

The continues Investors Business Daily its excellent job of defining and promoting Right to Work:

Should workers be forced to join unions or pay them dues as a condition of employment? Indiana recently became the 23rd state to say “no,” and polls show support for similar right-to-work laws in union bastions like Minnesota, Michigan and Ohio.

In Michigan, unions are so fearful that they are pushing to amend the state constitution to prevent such a law. The presumption is that if such laws passed, many employees would drop out of unions or stop paying dues, weakening labor.

There’s just one thing: There is little evidence that right-to-work laws cause people to leave unions. In fact, what evidence there is suggests the vast majority stick with their unions. That may be in part because the laws force unions to be more attentive to members’ needs.

“Somebody asked me how many workers got out because of right-to-work and I said, well, we don’t track that number,” said Jimmy Curry, president of Oklahoma AFL-CIO, whose state adopted a right-to-work law in 2001. He claims that no more than 10% of his members even register complaints. (more…)

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Move Over Occupy Wall Street, SEIU’s 99% Spring is taking over

On April 16, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

The beginning of (forced-dues financed) SEIU Propaganda Minister Scott Courtney’s e-mail is pictured above.  He proclaims that it is “a chance for all of us to come together to create a new future for our country.” Not much of a claim since there is no “old future” for any country.  SEIU’s rhetoric is as incendiary as it is nonsensical, and all-the-while illustrating that SEIU considers itself a political party and not a mere labor union.

Perhaps it is time for the IRS to evaluate SEIU’s political spending and see it has been paying ts “fair share” of taxes.  With many college students with out jobs and the money to pay for gas in this Obama Economy, maybe SEIU will attract a few soldiers for its war on workers and their rights to have Right To Work freedom.

What is SEIU teaching at its indoctrination camps? “This week, we’ll learn to tell the story of our economy and what went wrong.”

Will SEIU teach that under the two SEIU supported Democrat congresses our economy imploded?  That SEIU backed President Barack Obama, Senate Leader Harry Reid, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi piled more debt on college students and kindergarteners than ever in the history of America while simultaneous destroying the economic engine?

Will SEIU teach about its involvement, as well as, the AFL-CIO’s and ACORN’s involvement in the housing crisis?  You know the answer; it is NO.  But, if you don’t have the facts on your side, the next best thing is propaganda or as SEIU calls it: The 99% Spring.

More from the SEIU’s 99% Spring e-mail:

Last year, from the Wisconsin workers who took over their state capitol to Occupy Wall Street, we saw a new movement in America using direct action to highlight the unprecedented inequality that’s destroying our country.

The 99% Spring is our chance to maintain and broaden that changemaking [sic] energy, and learn how we can take action to challenge corporate power, end tax giveaways to the 1%, fight the influence of money in politics, and create an economy that works for all of us.

This week, we’ll run more than 900 trainings in union halls, living rooms, places of worship [does this impact tax status?], community centers and parks.

 

 

 

 

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WP’s Lane: Progressives Should Oppose Big Labor’s Walker Recall

On April 13, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

From the “progressive” Washington Post’s Charles Lane, an exposure of public sector unionism and its unequaled influence on elected officials and the cost of government:

Of course, collective bargaining in the public sector is inherently contrary to majority rule. It transfers basic public-policy decisions — namely, the pay and working conditions that taxpayers will offer those who work for them — out of the public square and behind closed doors. Progressive Wisconsin has a robust “open meetings” law covering a wide range of government gatherings except — you guessed it — collective bargaining with municipal or state employees. So much for transparency.

Even worse, to the extent that unions bankroll the campaigns of the officials with whom they will be negotiating — and they often do — they sit on both sides of the table.

More from Lane:

The furious drive to oust Walker is the sequel to last year’s dramatic battle over his plan to limit collective bargaining by public-sector unions. Walker won that fight, despite tumultuous pro-union demonstrations in and around the state capitol and a boycott of votes on the bill by the Democratic minority in the legislature. (more…)

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