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As you watch your children board the school bus for the first day back to classes, consider this: That school bus driver is likely forced to pay fees to a union as a condition of driving that bus. Why? Because he or she works in one of the 25 forced-unionism states in America — states where it is lawfully permissible to force a worker to pay fees to a union as a condition of employment. You're not alone if this sounds absurd. According to a recent Gallup poll, nearly 80 percent of your fellow Americans agree: No worker should be...

MADISON, Wisconsin — A worker-freedom organization is sending a special legal notice to unionized employees of the Big Three automakers in Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation wants United Auto Workers members at General Motors, Ford and Chrysler to know their new workplace rights now that they are residents of right-to-work states. Those new rights kick in Sept. 15, after the old UAW contracts, which included forced union dues, expire. In a statement Thursday, the Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation said that once the UAW’s “monopoly bargaining contracts” with the automakers end, all...

Members of the National Right to Work Foundation believe two German labor groups have failed to completely disclose their full level of involvement in the United Auto Workers’ attempts to set up shop in Chattanooga. As previously reported, the UAW wants to formally establish itself at Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant. The UAW’s attempts have so far been unsuccessful. VW workers, by a tally of 712-626, for instance, voted in February not to join the UAW. Members of the NRTW represent an unspecified number of VW workers who oppose the union. They say that VW’s Global Works Council and IG Metall, a...

Right to Work Technicians Unveil TOP SECRET Union Boss Translation Device Foundation experts have been hard at work on a device that translates union boss propaganda into plain English. Watch the video for the results of this experiment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvXcrmD40VM(warning: profanity from the union thug)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seZ1VXHNWI0 UAW Union Czar Ron Gettelfinger blames National Right to Work for his failings, then, goes on to lament the fact that he doesn't know the names of the members of the National Right to Work. Why? He and his Union Boss cohorts have been trying for years to get the name of all the members of National Right to Work in order to institute "payback".

OH YEAH -- CHANGE IS COMING! The election of Barack Obama has some employers quaking in their boots. Look into the crystal ball and prepare for dramatic changes in employment law and labor activity from unions to sick leave to ergonomics. Employers can expect to see more new workplace regulations than at any time in the last two decades. The Democrats are teeing up several bills and some issues demand attention immediately. Unions -- One issue looms far above all the others for Alabama Employers -- the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Obama supports the Employee Free Choice Act. This...

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Michigan’s auto-manufacturing jobs are on the decline, and young workers are quickly moving out of the state. As one Michigan resident put it: "Every week at my church I hear about two or three more young people moving South or Southwest," Mr. Warren says. "Too bad, because Michigan needs to keep its young people." Mr. Warren echoes Mark Mix’s call in the Detroit Free Press on Labor Day, stating: Michigan simply isn't creating enough good jobs to keep its young employees from leaving for more prosperous states. Michigan, one of 28 forced-unionism states,...

Why America needs a national right-to-work law editorials and opinion By DEROY MURDOCK Scripps Howard News Service Thursday, August 30, 2007 Americans will skip work Monday to celebrate what really should be called Leisure Day. But this Labor Day, an estimated 7.2 million privately employed Americans (and even more public-sector workers) could relax more thoroughly if they were not compelled to join labor unions and/or pay union dues as job requirements. That's why the time is now for the National Right to Work Act. Rep. Joe Wilson and Sen. Jim DeMint, both South Carolina Republicans, have sponsored legislation to restore...

Missouri Right to Work: Thank you Rep. Hunter By Will Fine, Executive Director National Alliance for Worker and Employer Rights Courageously, Rep. Hunter (R) and like-minded Missouri Representatives who supported him on March 1 passed the first Right to Work Law (H.B. 439) out of committee in recent Missouri History. Rep. Hunter's RTW Bill is now 54th on the Calendar for a full vote. The people have spoken: with pro-worker and employer majorities in the Senate, House and with Governor Blunt there has never been a better time to pass a right to work law in Missouri and pass it...

Privilege #1: Exemption from prosecution for union violence. The most egregious example of organized labor’s special privileges and immunities is the 1973 United States v. Enmons decision. In it, the United States Supreme Court held that union violence is exempted from the Hobbs Act, which makes it a federal crime to obstruct interstate commerce by robbery or extortion. As a result, thousands of incidents of violent assaults (directed mostly against workers) by union militants have gone unpunished. Meanwhile, many states also restrict the authority of law enforcement to enforce laws during strikes. Privilege #2: Exemption from anti-monopoly laws. The...

Ft. Rucker, Alabama (May 26, 2004) – Responding to federal charges filed by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys on behalf of a Shaw Infrastructure engineer at Ft. Rucker, union officials have agreed to pay $12,000 in damages after unlawfully having him fired for refusal to pay union dues. As part of a settlement agreement finalized today, union officials must also post a notice informing workers of the settlement, as well as their right to refrain from full-dues-paying union membership. In August 2003, Danny McDuffie filed unfair labor practice charges at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Wire Metal...

WASHINGTON — Some union watchdogs are complaining that labor is getting a free pass on its accounting rules after a federal judge delayed the implementation of new regulations that would demand tougher scrutiny of unions' financial records. "This (ruling), in effect, has given the AFL-CIO and all these unions the green light to conduct their 2004 political campaigns without having to disclose any of it," said Stefan Gleason, executive director of the National Right to Work Foundation, a non-profit legal organization opposed to compulsory union membership. The new rules, imposed by the Department of Labor late last year, aim to...

SPRINGFIELD, Va. - U.S. Newswire - The following is a statement of Stefan Gleason, spokesman for National Right to Work, regarding the effort of Big Labor-beholden Senators to prevent votes on pending judicial nominees: ``Senate Democrats rant and rave about ending special interest politics in Washington, but this unprecedented filibuster shows the lengths to which Senators will actually go to do the bidding of one of the most powerful special interests wielding influence on Capitol Hill - Big Labor. ``Union officials' government-granted special privileges include the power to collect nearly $9 billion annually in mandatory union dues from more than...

AFL-CIO Announces it Will Not Debate -- or Even Appear on the Same Television Show -- as National Right to Work 8/29/03 10:34:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Dan Cronin of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, 703-770-3317 SPRINGFIELD, Va., Aug. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a stunning move, the AFL-CIO has flatly rejected CNN's request that they appear for a Labor Day weekend television discussion about the union movement with a spokesman from the National Right to Work Foundation, an organization that is providing free legal assistance to thousands of victims of union coercion and...

Bush Ban on Discriminatory Union-Only Contracting Upheld by Appellate CourtNational Right to Work Foundation helps to successfully defend Bush Executive OrderFOR RELEASE: July 15, 2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 15, 2002) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld the Bush Administration’s Executive Order 13202, which bans discriminatory union-only contracts, also known as project labor agreements (PLAs), on federally funded construction projects. In support of the Bush administration, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation filed an amicus curiae (Friend of the Court) brief with Associated Builders and Contractors and the U.S. Chamber...