Obama Rewards Government Union Bosses, Again

On February 8, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Government worker unions are President Obama’s biggest contributors and backers — pledging to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure his re-election.  The President returned the favor by rewarding already well compensated federal workers with another pay increase.

“The proposed raise comes despite a recent study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office finding that federal workers are significantly better compensated than their private-sector peers. The study, commissioned by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), found that federal civilian employees enjoy a total compensation premium of 16 percent, which includes a 2 percent advantage with respect to cash wages and a 48 percent advantage in benefits, the Free Beacon reports.

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Union Activist Voter Fraud Investigated

On February 7, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Nothing is going to stop union militants efforts to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his pro-reform allies — even the law, apparently.  The Racine County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the possibility of fraudulent signatures on the petitions to recall Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine.

Jeff Demet’s name is on the petitions four times, but he said he didn’t sign even once. Also, his mother, Mary Demet’s signature is on the recall petitions, but she said she didn’t sign. Dennis Sargent of Racine is also on a petition that was allegedly circulated by Mark Demet, Jeff Demet’s brother. But Sargent said he did not sign a petition to recall Wanggaard and the address listed is not where he lives.

For more, read: Suspect recall signing could result in felony charges

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Big Labor Hits Road Block in Wisconsin

On February 5, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

As Big Labor seeks to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, they are running into a big road block that is hindering their efforts — Walker’s reforms are working saving taxpayers millions of dollars.

City Journal looks at the success of the Walker reforms that should be a model for other states looking to balance their budgets:  ”The truth, however, is that the reforms not only are saving money already; they’re doing so with little disruption to services. In early August, noticing the trend, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that Milwaukee would save more in health-care and pension costs than it would lose in state aid, leaving the city $11 million ahead in 2012—despite Mayor Tom Barrett’s prediction in March that Walker’s budget ‘makes our structural deficit explode.’”

That is just one example.  Well worth the read.

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WSJ: Obama’s NLRB Appointees Constitutionality Challenged

On February 5, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

The National Right to Work has filed suit against the unconstitutional appointment by President Obama of members of National Labor Relations Board but that is not the only suit pending.

The Wall Street Journal reports, “the legality of the appointments is being challenged in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, where lawyers for the housing complex owner are challenging an injunction sought by the NLRB to end a lockout of members of the Service Employees International Union following a pay dispute. NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon filed for the injunction last week, after the current board members authorized him to do so….The first legal challenge to Mr. Obama’s recess appointments came last month, when three groups—the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the National Right to Work Foundation and the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace—asked a judge to rule on whether the appointments to the NLRB violate the U.S. Constitution.”

President Obama violated the constitution precedent when he made “recess” appointments to the NLRB while Congress was in session.  It is imperative that the courts stand up to this power grab and we are working to ensure that happens.

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Reform on the Agenda in Arizona

On February 2, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who captivated the fighting to protect Arizona’s border, is taking on government labor union bosses in an effort to stabilize the state budget.  Her reforms would prevent “rubber room” situations where government employees cannot be fired for malfeasance thanks to union rules.  In addition, Brewer wants to end the cycle of corruption that exists between big labor due’s money funding politicians who then bargain with the same union over salary and benefits.

We will keep you up to date but on thing we do know, Gov. Brewer is not one to back down from a fight.

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Schumer: WI Big Labor “Cash Drain”

On January 30, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Union bosses are spending so much money trying to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Democrats are expressing concern that their won’t be enough political cash left for their coffers.  The Hill reports that New York liberal Sen. Chuck Schumer  is expressing concern about a “cash drain” that will leave elected Democrats without the usual hundreds of millions of dollars from union coffers spent on their behalf.

The one thing we have never had to worry about was the union bosses not spending enough of their union members due’s money on politics.  While elected officials who benefit from union political largess care about a political cash drain they certainly express little concern about the fact that union workers continue to see their union dues flushed down the drain on wasteful political spending like recall elections.

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Damn Our Union Members, “There’s Bigger Fish to Fry”

On January 25, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Why Right To Work Laws Are Important

While Big Labor Bosses continue to pour forced-union dues into campaigns to stop Right To Work freedom, they also continue to shower Barack Obama with forced-dues money even-though Obama just killed a pipeline project that would have created jobs for 20,000 workers, many of which would be union members. If most of their members had the Right To Work, they could stop paying dues and force union officials to pay attention to union member jobs rather playing politics with union families’ income.

From Lachlan Markay’s post:

The Obama Administration’s decision to forego the Keystone pipeline has forced the country’s labor groups into a bitter civil war. At issue is the central purpose of the labor movement: those who feel it should represent workers in the workplace generally oppose the administration’s decision; those who see unions as primarily political organizations have generally supported it.

Unions that had a stake in the Keystone decision were livid that the administration abandoned it, and equally angry at their fellow union members who had supported that decision, according to a Friday report from Politico Pro ($):

“People are p****d,” said one U.S. labor official who supports the proposed TransCanada pipeline. “The emotions are really, really raw right now. This is a big deal.”

“It’s repulsive, it’s disgusting and we’re not going to stand idly by,” Laborers’ International Union of North America General President Terry O’Sullivan told POLITICO. “The rules have changed. So we’ll react accordingly.”…

But other top figures in the labor movement defended the decision. Their argument: re-electing President Obama is a higher priority than preserving union jobs, and to that end, unions had to prevent Republicans from gaining the upper hand on the top political issue of the day. (more…)

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Obama Illegal NLRB Appointee Receiving Hefty Union Pension

On January 24, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

The Heritage Foundation has discovered that financial disclosure documents from President Obama’s illegal appointees to the National Labor Relations Board “show that one will continue to receive payments from a major labor union during his time on the board.”

From Heritage:

Richard Griffin, the former general counsel for the International Union of Operating Engineers, will receive regular payments under two different IUOE pension plans. The payment amounts are not listed on the disclosure form. He will also receive a single lump sum payment equal to three weeks of salary (one week for each of the three years since he enrolled in the plan). Griffin’s annual salary as the IUOE’s general counsel was $376,778, according to the disclosure form.

In his capacity as general counsel, we have noted, Griffin advanced policies that helped insulate corrupt union leaders from challenge.

Both Griffin and Sharon Block, who was also illegally appointed to the NLRB, filed ethics agreements with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics stating that they will not, in their capacity as NLRB members, participate in matters that might affect their personal finances. Assuming that agreement is adhered to, Griffin’s continued compensation by the IUOE is licit.

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