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====================================================== April 12, 2001 ====================================================== UNION VIOLENCE VICTIM WINS SETTLEMENT AGAINST TEAMSTERS UNION Justice obtained for UPS driver who was beaten and stabbed during Teamsters strike ...................................................... http://www.nrtw.org/b/nr_227.htm ...................................................... MIAMI, Fla. (April 12, 2001) -- National Right to Work Foundation attorneys have forced Teamsters Local 769 to pay a monetary settlement for its direct involvement in a bloody attack on Rod Carter during the 1997 nationwide Teamsters strike against United Parcel Service (UPS). Carter, a UPS driver who suffered severe injuries for choosing to work during the strike in order to feed his family, settled the racketeering and civil ...

====================================================== March 5, 2001 ====================================================== LOCKHEED MARTIN EMPLOYEE SOCKS UNION WITH FEDERAL CHARGES Machinists union's unlawful scheme forces dissenting workers to fund politics ...................................................... http://www.nrtw.org/b/nr_224.htm ...................................................... PALMDALE, Calif. (March 5, 2001) -- A Lockheed Martin employee today filed federal charges against an international labor union after union officials illegally seized forced union dues from his paycheck to fund union political activities. With the help of National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys, the aeronautics factory employee, Mark Thomley, filed federal unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the International Association of Machinists and ...

====================================================== January 30, 2001 ====================================================== MCCAIN-FEINGOLD DELIBERATELY GUTS EMPLOYEES' RIGHT NOT TO FUND UNION ELECTIONEERING Original Beck decision attorney releases legal analysis ------------------------------------------------------ http:/wwww.nrtw.org/b/nr_221.htm ------------------------------------------------------ The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation today released an analysis revealing that the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill is a "Trojan Horse," containing crafty language designed specifically to gut the U.S. Supreme Court Beck decision. National Right to Work Foundation attorneys won the U.S. Supreme Court Communications Workers of America v. Beck decision in 1988, allowing employees to halt and reclaim all forced union dues not used for collective bargaining activity, like politics. ...

December 7, 2000 Another Path To School Choice by Darcy A. Olsen and Matthew J. Brouillette Darcy A. Olsen, director of education at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and Matthew J. Brouillette, director of education at the Mackinac Center in Midland, Mich., are co-authors of "Reclaiming Our Schools: Increasing Parental Control of Education through the Universal Education Credit," just released by the Cato Institute.     In 1862, French novelist Victor Hugo wrote, "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world and that is an idea whose time has come." Today, that idea is school choice. ...

Foundation Action News (in PDF), Jan/Feb 2000, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Defending Workers against abusive (any other kind?) unions, and being a general thorn in their side, since 1968. Great source to find your rights in unionized shops. Gives info. on "Right to Work" States, and how to resign from your union, organize deauthorization, and challenge the thugs to respect Worker's rights. Offers free legal aid to assist with fighting the debris, e.g. the ISBT (International Brotherhood of Socialist Teamsters). A+

   WorldNetDaily Publisher Joseph Farah received a lot of flak from readers when he suggested that the Bush presidency may be considerably less than what you dream of.    The theme of the flak was, "Shut up and give George Bush a chance." But this overlooks the record. What the Bush backers should have said was, "Shut up and give Bush another chance." He's already had a chance. In fact, he's had two of them -- and he failed in both cases. Should we give George Bush another chance?, Commentary by Harry Browne, posted on WorldNetDaily website.

           "Expected early in 2001 is a new requirement to banning the building of roads on nearly 60 million acres of federal forests. Also, the EPA is preparing regulations tightening arsenic levels in water, *** lead levels in soil***, and wetlands protection." 1      Does this mean, then, that outdoor shooting ranges are going to be regulated or banned based on their contribution of lead to the soil? How about the sport of gun hunting? Would that too be subject to regulations arising from controlling lead levels in soil? My guess is that is exactly what this new regulation is ...