Another Million Dollars on Big Labor Attack Ads

On August 23, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is spending almost $1 million in attack ads in Missouri alone — targeting Republican Senate candidate Roy Blunt.  Blunt — who has not taken the Right to Work pledge opposing Card Check forced unionism and other compulsory unionism issues — is under siege from the union bosses. Maybe it’s time he tell rank and file union members and other Missourians that he supports freedom in the workplace.  That is a message that works with nearly 8 out of 10 of all Americans!

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Posted in: AFSCME, Economic Development in RTW States, Forced-Dues for Politics, Legislation, Public Employee Monopoly Bargaining
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Michelle Malkin: Obama’s Big Labor ethics loophole

On August 18, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff

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Michelle Malkin highlights the non-existent ethical standards applied to Obama Big Labor politcal appointees like  SEIU/AFL-CIO lawyer Craig Becker who Obama appointed to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB):

Everything you need to know about President Obama’s fraudulent ethics pledge can be summed up in four words: SEIU lawyer Craig Becker.

It’s no surprise that Becker now refuses to hold himself accountable for the ethics pledge he himself signed in April. As the past two years have taught us, Team Obama’s operational slogan is: Rules are for fools. The contractual ethics commitment states: “I will not for a period of two years from the date of my appointment participate in any particular matter involving specific parties that is directly and substantially related to my former employer or former clients, including regulations and contracts.” Yet, Becker has participated in numerous NLRB cases involving the SEIU and its affiliates — and is parsing the definition of “former employer” by arguing that local SEIU chapters are “separate and distinct legal entities” that don’t fall under the ethics rules.

The National Right to Work Foundation, which has fought both national and local SEIU officials in court on behalf of rank-and-file workers’ rights, eviscerates Becker’s lawyerly blather. SEIU’s own constitution considers local affiliates “constituent subordinate bodies” of the national union, the foundation notes. “Moreover, in 2009 over 85 percent of the SEIU’s receipts came from a per capita tax on the locals’ membership dues and fees. The national union even has the power to assume control over its locals if they do not conform to International policies.” (more…)

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Posted in: AFL-CIO, Arbitration, Big Labor Ethics, Card Check, Card Check, Economics, Exclusive Representation, Forced Dues, Forced-Dues for Politics, Government Grants to Unions, Monopoly Bargaining, NLRB, NRTWLDF, Obama Administration, Personnel Alert, Public Employee Monopoly Bargaining, Right to Work, SEIU
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Reality Check — Deficit Spending is “fiction”

On August 11, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff

Maybe it is because he has the federally granted privilege of extracting money from workers as a condition of their employment that makes him oblivious to real world concerns but it’s time that AFL-CIO Boss Richard Trumka gets a reality check about America’s $14 TRILLION debt and the projected trillion dollar plus annual deficits. In his eyes, the crisis is “fiction.” His words not ours:

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Posted in: AFL-CIO, Do Union Bosses Speak, Economic Impact of Unionization, Economics, Forced-Dues for Politics, Legislation, Monopoly Bargaining, Union boss power
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Washington Post: State Worker Bailout Motivated by Politics

On August 10, 2010, By NRTWC Staff

The Washington Post argues that Washington bailouts for state union workers reinforces dependency on the feds and is a political handout to their Big Labor constituency.   It’s not often we agree with the Post but in this case they are right:

TO GOVERN is to choose, and nothing lays bare a government’s true priorities like the choices it makes about spending taxpayers’ money. In that regard, the Senate’s decision to spend $10 billion on education jobs this week is revealing — and deeply discouraging.

The crusade for an education jobs bill, led by the Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Congress, has always struck us as more of an election-year favor for teachers unions than an optimal use of public resources. Billed as an effort to stimulate the economy, it’s not clearly more effective than alternative uses of the cash. Yes, school budgets are tight across the country, but the teacher layoff “crisis” is exaggerated. In fact, as happens each year, many teachers who got pink slips in the spring have been notified that they’ll be hired after all. Many layoffs could have been — and indeed have been — avoided by modest union concessions.

As of last school year, the money for 5.5 percent of the 6 million K-12 jobs nationwide came from Washington through the 2009 stimulus; the new money reinforces this dangerous dependency. (more…)

Posted in: Big Labor Ethics, Big Labor Payback, Public Employee Monopoly Bargaining, Public Employees
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Stiffing the Taxpayers

On August 9, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff

With state’s struggling to make ends meet and the federal government proposing a taxpayer bailout for teachers, the teacher’s union in Milwaukee is doing its best to stiff the taxpayers by demanding insurance coverage for Viagra.

From AP:

With the district in a financial crisis and hundreds of its members facing layoffs, the Milwaukee teachers union is taking a peculiar stand: fighting to get its taxpayer-funded Viagra back.

The union has asked a judge to order the school board to again include Pfizer Inc.’s erectile dysfunction drug and similar pills in its health insurance plans…..State Rep. Jason Fields argues that the money could be better spent any number of ways — including saving jobs. ”You’ve got to be kidding me,” said Fields, a Milwaukee Democrat. “The fact that is the point of contention is kind of frightening. What are our priorities? I’m all for love and peace. But almost 1 million dollars? And you go to court over this issue?”

Posted in: AFT and affiliates, Economics, Forced-Dues for Politics, Government Grants to Unions, NEA and Affiliates, Public Employee Monopoly Bargaining, Public Employees, Union boss power, Wisconsin
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Coincidence? Billion $$$ Bailout – Revved Up Political Activity

On August 9, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff

Some dare call it a coincidence.

The same day that House Democrats return to Washington to hand state and teacher union bosses a $26 billion bailout, teacher’s union announces a “plan to rev up recess action to protect Democrats’ majority.”  See what $26 billion dollars can buy you?

A coincidence — surely not.

Don’t forget that out of the estimated 3.3 million public school teachers nationwide, teachers unions were expecting about 160,000 layoffs this year — just 4.8 percent of all teachers. 38.1 percent of those layoffs are centered in just three states: 9,000 in New Jersey, 16,000 in New York and 36,000 in California. About 57 percent of those 160,000 teachers are unionized as noted by the Heritage Foundation, with contributions to state and local unions averaging $300 per teacher.  Add another $162 per teacher to the National Education Association and $190 per teacher to the American Federation of Teachers, as reported by Education Next, and the Senate easily has voted to give a minimum $40 million to the public teachers unions’ political coffers.  That money will be mobilized into campaign ads, direct mail, phone banks, you name it, all to help elect Democrats.

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Elena Kagan Supports Forced Union Dues for Politics

On July 29, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff
Right to Work President Mark Mix sat down with nationally-syndicated radio host Lars Larson to discuss Obama Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan’s support for forcing workers to contribute to union political activism.

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Washington Post’s Breaking News …

On July 28, 2010, By NRTW Committee Staff

The Washington Post just issued an email news alert to their subscribers.  Did a national leader die?  Did war breakout?  Did a natural disaster occur?

No.  The breaking news was that the District of Columbia had fired 241 teachers for poor performance.

DC School Chancellor Michelle Rhee rocked the educational establishment by in the words of the Washington Post “for the first time, holds some educators accountable for student growth on standardized test scores.”

“Every child in a District of Columbia public school has a right to a highly effective teacher — in every classroom, of every school, of every neighborhood, of every ward, in this City,” Rhee said.

The Washington Teacher’s Union will, of course, be contesting the firings even though they agreed to the process as part of the last contract negotiations — which raised their pay by 21%!

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