Michelle Malkin’s most recent syndicated column points out how nearly one-fourth of the Administration’s waivers on ObamaCare have been granted to big labor unions including the Teamster who hailed Obama for “enacting historic health care reform, providing health insurance to millions of Americans who don’t have it and controlling costs for millions more who do.” The Teamsters have obtained waivers for 17 different locals.
On January 31, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff
On January 25, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff
The House GOP is getting to the bottom of the “waivers” the Obama Administration has given to hundreds of labor unions and political supporters seeking to be exempted from ObamaCare.
“If there are exemptions,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said, “what was the process by which those exemptions were sought and given?”
Among those exempted: three SEIU locals from Chicago. Just to remind readers, the SEIU gave $27 million to support Obama’s election and lobbied hard for the enactment of the bill.
On December 19, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
The December 2010 issue of The National Right To Work Committee Newsletter is available for download in an Adobe pdf format for your convenience to read and share. It is the Committee’s official newsletter publication that provides an excellent monthly overview of the battle against forced unionism.
December’s issue contains the following headlines:
The December 2010 issue of The National Right To Work Committee Newsletter
Voters Give Forced Unionism a ‘Shellacking’ – But Big Labor Retains Hold Over U.S. Senate, Key State Assemblies
Federal Candidate Survey Mobilizes Millions – Program Maximizes Right to Work Gains in ‘Year of Opportunity’
Obama NLRB to Ignore Mid-Term Election Results – Independent Workers, Firms Face ‘Card-Check Lite’ Implementation
Workers Forced to Bankroll Agenda They Oppose – New Nationwide Poll Shows Union Members Support Right to Work
Iowans Repudiate Pro-Forced Unionism Governor – Right to Work Makes Major Gains in State Legislative Contests
Right to Work: Rx For Job-Losing States – Legislators Look at ‘Oklahoma Model’ For Stronger Economic Growth
On December 16, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
More and more unions are being exempted from the onerous provisions of ObamaCare while we get ready to bear the burden. The latest batch of waivers include: the Bricklayers Local 1 of MD, VA and DC, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, the Indiana Teamsters Health Benefits Fund, Service Employees International Union Local 1 Cleveland Welfare Fund, and more.
On November 3, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
From the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation/ Frank Luntz & The Word Doctors 2010 Union Member Attitude Survey (October 26 to October 28, 2010):
Question 21. In 2010, President Obama and Democrats in Congress passed a nearly $1 trillion healthcare reform bill. Supporters of the bill said it would lower healthcare costs and expand access, while opponents said it would increases costs and reduce quality of care. In your opinion, was that bill very much a success, somewhat a success, somewhat a failure, or very much a failure?
- Union Members Think ObamaCare Failed
On September 24, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
Will Big Labor Machine Rescue Unpopular Union-Label Politicians?
(Source: September 2010 NRTWC Newsletter)
Over the past two years, Big Labor bosses have repeatedly succeeded in getting their favored federal politicians in competitive U.S. House districts and states to cast “politically difficult” votes.
Top AFL-CIO union official Richard Trumka is going all out this fall to help U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) retain the power to keep pushing forward his forced-unionism agenda in 2011 and 2012. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America
Early in 2009, for example, union lobbyists twisted arms to secure majorities in both chambers of Congress for controversial “stimulus” legislation. Since it became law, the “stimulus” has bilked taxpayers of hundreds of billions of dollars to ensure that bloated, unionized government payrolls stay bloated, but furnished no detectable help for America’s private sector.
And, more even than President Obama or any other elected official, top union officials are responsible for Congress’s narrow votes to reconstruct America’s enormous health-care system in late 2009 and early 2010.
As the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported March 22, 2010, “in the final push before the vote,” many union bosses and union operatives “displayed their clout through threats to withhold endorsements from lawmakers who failed to back the bill. They also vowed to support primary challenges or third-party bids against incumbents who opposed” ObamaCare.
Now polls indicate that voters across the country are poised to punish vulnerable U.S. representatives and senators for doing what Big Labor told them to do. (more…)
On September 16, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
During the health care debate, the union bosses of the AFl-CIO made bold threats to House Democrats — vote against ObamaCare and we will sit on our hands during your re-election battle. As Miss Emily Letella on Saturday Night Live used to say, “Nevermind.”
With many of their congressional water carriers struggling for their political lives, the AFL-CIO backed of their threat putting power before principle. The Hill reports:
The AFL-CIO released its first round of mailers in support of endangered Democrats this week. In it, the union sought to bolster Rep. Zack Space’s (D-Ohio) campaign with literature attacking his Republican opponent.
Space was the lone Democrat from Ohio’s congressional delegation to vote against the healthcare bill, and his position enraged labor groups.
But he’s not the only lawmaker who voted against the legislation to see union support trickle back his way. (more…)
On June 3, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
In Huntington, West Virginia blood collections were suspended Wednesday as 60 union workers joined a broader coalition of SEIU activists to initiate a strike against the American Red Cross.