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.
On June 3, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
On May 11, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
In 2007, Senator Arlen Specter voted for the Card Check Forced Unionism bill when he was a Republican. Then, in 2009, he helped block the Card Check Forced Unionism bill when he was a Republican. In the first session of this congress, he announced he was going to oppose the Card Check bill as a Democrat. Now as a Democrat running for reelection he has worked overtime to carry the union boss agenda in the Senate. Now, this current posture is paying dividends as he racks up endorsements of big labor including the SEIU, the PA AFL-CIO, the Teamsters and other big labor unions.
But, it appears that rank and file voters may reject the insider deal as polls of Democrat voters now show a majority rejecting Specter.
On April 21, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
Scheme Injurious For Millions of Unionized Workers, Retirees
(Source: April 2010 NRTWC Newsletter)
Last month, the Big Labor Congress gave final approval to, and President Barack Obama signed into law, what is surely the greatest expansion of federal government power over consumers, employees and businesses since last century’s Great Depression.
And, even more than Mr. Obama, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), or any other elected official, top Big Labor bosses are responsible for Congress’s reconstruction of America’s enormous health-care system.
On March 22, the day after the House rubber-stamped both H.R.3590, the version of ObamaCare Mr. Reid had rammed through the Senate early Christmas Eve morning, 2009, and a “fixer” bill (H.R.4872) amending the Senate measure, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) demonstrated how it all happened.
“Supporters of both measures received out-sized support from labor unions,” concluded the CRP’s Michael Beckel in his legislative wrap-up.
He went on to specify that, since 1989: “Members who voted for both bills received an average of about $917,500″ in reported contributions alone from labor union bosses.
Furthermore, in “the final push for a vote,” many union bosses and union operatives “also 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 the bills.” (more…)
On March 29, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
Big Labor will have a field day unionizing, often by force, workers in the following 159 new boards, bureaucracies, and programs created by the health care reform bill.
On March 24, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
Open Secrets reports that big labor gave over $200 million to support a government takeover of our health care system.
On March 18, 2010, By NRTWC Staff
Patrick O’Connor, on Politico.com, reports the “Cadillac Tax” provisions of the Health Care bill have been altered and the White House immediately “entertained” AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka to keep him happy. Another example of the tail wagging the dog.
On March 18, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
Here’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, buy and threaten their way toward their goal of nationalized healthcare.
Some are wrongly claiming the special payouts for Big Labor and the rest of the union-label Democrats’ pals “are all gone.”
Do NOT be fooled.
The fact is, President Obama’s new Healthcare Nationalization Scheme is EVERY BIT as damaging.
That’s why it’s vital you contact your U.S. Representative TODAY.
Click here to contact your U.S. Representative and let them know how you feel about them using Healthcare as a political payback to Big Labor Union Bosses like SEIU’s Andy Stern and AFSCME’s Gerald McEntee.
On March 11, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
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’s health-care “reform” (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 most Americans were nestled snugly in their beds early on Christmas Eve morning.
President Obama has already endorsed both H.R.3962 and H.R.3590, and is pressuring the House and Senate to get one of these measures, or more likely, a “compromise” blend of the two, to his desk for his signature within the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, the National Right to Work Committee and its growing base of 2.5 million members and supporters are fighting furiously to prevent the White House and Congress from making health-care “reform” a Trojan Horse for more forced unionism.
Granting New Special Privileges to Big Labor Could Disrupt Health Care
Tucked away in the two enormous bills now headed to a conference committee are new special privileges for Big Labor that, if granted, could have serious consequences for health-care employees and employers and the American economy as a whole.
For example, both H.R.3962 and H.R.3590 open the door for institution in all 50 states of forced-unionism schemes like those pursued by former Big Labor Govs. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) and Gray Davis (D-Calif.).
Both governors repaid tremendous political debts to Service Employees International Union (SEIU) czar Andy Stern by reclassifying state-reimbursed in-home health-care contractors as state employees — and forcing them to pay union dues in order to continue receiving reimbursements.
And the more radical of the two bills, H.R.3962, grants Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, a longtime union-boss ally, tremendous discretionary authority to impose a new labor-relations regime on doctors and nurses treating “public-option” patients.
Ms. Sebelius could quickly make submission to union monopoly bargaining and payment of compulsory union dues required standards for “public-option” health-care workers across the country, resulting potentially in hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses being corralled into unions.
History Shows That Monopoly Bargaining Encourages Strikes, Both Legal and Illegal
Another H.R.3962 provision would either exacerbate the horrendous national debt or foist an additional burden on taxpayers by furnishing $10 billion in bailout money for mismanaged union health-benefit funds.
“As long as ObamaCare retains such Big Labor special-interest provisions, including above all the provisions promoting the forced unionization of the health-care industry, Right to Work supporters will remain determined to defeat it,” said Committee President Mark Mix.
“Monopoly bargaining inflicts serious harm on employees, employers, and customers even in cases where it doesn’t, for one reason or another, result in disruptive strikes.
“And history shows that, even if a final ‘public-option’ scheme adopted by Congress putatively bans strikes, union bosses will nevertheless gain the power to shut down medical facilities with sick-outs and other such tactics.
“Doctors, nurses and other health-care workers will come under enormous pressure to abandon their patients at Big Labor’s behest, even if strikes are theoretically illegal.
“The Committee will do everything possible to prevent Big Labor from hijacking health-care reform.
“We are now prepared to launch a full-scale lobbying blitz, including TV ads targeting key senators if necessary, to defeat all the new special privileges for union bosses tucked away in pending health-care legislation.”
Right to Work Supporters Must Keep Turning up the Pressure on Capitol Hill
Mr. Mix expressed “cautious optimism” that the new special privileges for union bosses hidden in H.R.3962 and H.R.3590 can be defeated, but warned that the battle would be difficult:
“Right to Work supporters everywhere must keep turning up the pressure on Congress, or a health-care ‘reform’ that is really a Trojan Horse for forced unionism will indeed become the law of the land.
“Forcing people into a union in order to get reimbursed for caring for their sick children or elderly parents isn’t health-care reform. Nor is funneling additional billions of tax dollars into mismanaged union benefit funds health-care reform.
“Over the next few weeks, Congress needs to hear that message — over and over again.”
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