The unconstitutionally appointed National Labor Relations Board announced its upcoming agenda that includes forcing companies to release private information about their employees — including their phone numbers and email addresses — to union activists to assist their efforts to coerce workers into a union.
On February 2, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff
On November 4, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff
President Obama continues to push a bailout for teacher’s union but it seems clear that in Oakland, there are at least 15% too many teacher’s. How else could 300 teachers, about 15% of all teacher’s, take a day off and join a general strike organized by the radical Occupy Oakland crowd?
Gretchen Bailey, a kindergarten teacher at Global Family School in Oakland for 15 years, said she took the day off without pay to protest both local budget cuts and the national goals of the Occupy Wall Street movement. ”I think we need new tax laws,” she said. “We all need to share more of the burden.”
Eric Robertson, a first-grade teacher who gave the district notice he was planning to join the protest, said he was frustrated with governmental divestment in local government and schools. ”I’d like to see responsible capitalism,” he said. “I think it is a good model but you have to have restrictions on it.” It is time people started paying government for what they expect of government, he said. ”I am tired of smelling piss on the street,” he said. “We want responsibility.”
Later that day, masked Occupiers shattered windows, set fires and caused destruction throughout the city. We can’t help but wonder if this is the responsibility these teachers are demanding? If these are the people teaching our children, the future is indeed bleak
On November 1, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff
In southwestern Washington last month, overpowered police were unable to prevent bat- and ax handle-wielding union toughs from systematically sabotaging a $200 million grain terminal. No arrests were made at the scene. Credit: AP Photo/Don Ryan
Bat- and Pipe-Wielding Union Thugs Rampage in Washington State
(Source: October 2011 NRTWC Newsletter)
For decades, Right to Work advocates have fought to close the judicially created loophole in federal anti-extortion law that exempts threats, vandalism and violence perpetrated to secure so-called “legitimate union objectives,” including monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges over employees.
In explaining the importance of closing the loophole created 38 years ago in the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial 5-4 Enmons decision, National Right to Work Committee spokesmen and their allies have pointed out, time and again, that local and state law enforcement are often overwhelmed by violent union conspiracies.
Just last month, the local police in Longview, Wash., a Columbia River port town, became the latest case in point.
At 4:30 AM on September 8, hundreds of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU/AFL-CIO) militants stormed a new grain terminal at the Port of Longview.
Big Labor thugs broke down the gates, overwhelmed six security guards, and then converged on the terminal of EGT, a joint venture of U.S., Japanese, and South Korean companies that has been targeted by ILWU chiefs.
A week later, security guard Charlie Cadwell testified before U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton that every ILWU “protester” he saw that night was carrying a baseball bat, lead pipe, garden tool, or other weapon.
As the AP reported, Mr. Cadwell told the judge he was first pulled out of his car by one Big Labor zealot, then another swung a metal pipe at him.
“I told him,” Mr. Cadwell continued, “You have 50 cameras on you, and law enforcement is on its way. He said, ‘(Expletive) you. We’re not here for you; we’re here for the train.’”
Meanwhile, yet another union militant drove off with his car and eventually ran it into a ditch. Mr. Cadwell said “about 40 to 50 people were throwing rocks at him, and that he was hit between his eyes and in his knee,” according to the AP account.
‘I Wasn’t About’ to Stop ‘These People From Doing Whatever It Is They Were Going to Do’
The ILWU lawbreakers in Washington State evidently feel no more compunction about using threats and violence against police than they do about assaulting and terrorizing security guards. (more…)
On October 2, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff
Despite a judge’s order to end the illegal strike tactics and violence, union bosses and activists from the Longshoreman’s union in Washington state have continued a reign of terror. In response, a judge has now fined the union $250,000 and has promised to do what it takes to ensure lives and property are protected. The union is so out of control, the NRLB is asking for them to be fined.
On October 1, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff
Shooting Victim’s Workers, Firm Have Long Been Big Labor Targets
(Source: September 2011 NRTWC Newsletter)
Having grown over the course of several decades into one of the largest union-free electrical contracting businesses in the Toledo, Ohio, area, King Electrical Services and its employees are seasoned in dealing with Big Labor harassment, threats and violence.
John King started the firm during the 1970′s, after first working for a unionized electrical contractor and serving a stint in the military. In his business’s early days, Mr. King recalls, “it was nothing to have to regularly buy a new set of tires. The ice pick was the weapon of choice.”
During a mid-eighties strike, King Electrical, which then had just eight or nine employees, was picketed by more than 50 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW/AFL-CIO) union militants. One employee had his car trashed and was also beaten up by IBEW thugs.
The harassment and violence have never stopped. Just during the first half of this year, goons hurled rocks through King Electrical’s shop-front windows, and smashed the windows and slashed the tires of the company’s trucks in separate incidents.
But somehow none of this prepared Mr. King for what happened to him on the night of August 10, while his wife was away with their grandchildren.
After waking up at his home in Monroe County, Mich., 2.5 miles from Toledo, Mr. King noticed that the motion lights in his driveway had come on. He then looked out his front window and saw a man who appeared to be breaking into his SUV.
‘It’s Not So Surprising That Union Militants Think They’re Above the Law’
As a resident of a neighborhood where violent crime is practically unheard of, Mr. King unhesitatingly walked out his front door to yell at the apparent thief.
So confident was Mr. King that his home was his “safe haven” from the Big Labor thuggery he and his employees have often faced on the job, in fact, that, prone and bloodied in front of his house a few seconds later, he didn’t realize he’d been shot. (more…)
On September 28, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff
In Washington State, Longshoremen have conducted an illegal campaign of destruction. Cowlitz County Sheriff Mark Nelson has become the focal point of big labor’s ire as he tried to protect peace and property. Longshoreman Boss Dan Coffman is contemplating a recall election against Nelson for carrying out his responsibilities.
Longshoremen have used threats, baseball bats, vandalism, intimidation and hostage taking of guards at the embattled EGT company to impose their will on the SW Washington community. Recalling the sheffif is tantamount to making big labor the sheriff of the county — not a great idea if you value equal protection under law.
Big Labor suffered an embarrassing defeat in Wisconsin when it took the recall election route. It’s pretty clear they will suffer another one if they continue to pursue this embarrassing idea.
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On September 13, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff
Big Labor history from Robert F. Kennedy’s The Enemy Within: The McClellan Committee’s Crusade Against Jimmy Hoffa And Corrupt Labor Unions:
As I was going out the door, Hoffa said: “Tell your wife I’m not as bad as everyone thinks I am.” I laughed. Jimmy Hoffa had a sense of humor. He must have laughed himself as he said it. In view of all I already knew, I felt that he was worse than anybody said he was.
In the next two and a half years, nothing happened to change my opinion. On my way home I thought of how often Hoffa had said he was tough; that he destroyed employers, hated policemen and broke those who stood in his way.
It had always been my feeling that if a person was truly tough; if he actually had strength and power; if he really had the ability to excel, he need not brag and boast of it to prove it. (more…)
On September 9, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff
The Wall Street Journal notices that the Washington State’s Longshoreman’s acts of violence were too much for even the NLRB to ignore:
It turns out a union can go so far that even the current National Labor Relations Board can’t turn a blind eye. A grain operator at the Port of Longview in Washington state was hit with a violent strike yesterday by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). Longshoreman walked out at nearby ports in Tacoma and Seattle.
According to police reports, some 500 longshoreman broke in at about 4:30 a.m. Thursday morning and held six security guards hostage for two hours while the protesters rampaged through the facility. They cut brake lines on railroad cars and spilled grain from boxcars.
The grain terminal under attack is owned by EGT, LLC, which is a joint venture of U.S., Japanese and South Korean companies. The consortium built the facility for $200 million and announced it would employ non-union longshoreman to save $1 million a year in operating costs. Contract negotiations between EGT and the union broke down earlier this year. The facility has been under physical assault since July.
On August 31, the NLRB issued a complaint accusing the union of taking “violent and aggressive” actions, destroying EGT’s property and harassing its employees. In response to an NLRB request, federal Judge Ronald B. Leighton issued a temporary restraining order, which the union has ignored. It would have been impossible for the NLRB not to have issued a complaint when a union is publicly trashing people and property.
There is some concern that the strike against the two big ports could spread to other important U.S. points of entry if ILWU shops begin slowdowns in sympathy with the union in Washington state. If that happens, the events yesterday will become a national issue demanding the attention of a President who is desperately trying to hold his union base together. This one is worth watching.