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- Breaking News: Court Strikes Down Obama Labor Board?s Ambush Election Rule Ch...
Court Strikes Down Obama Labor Board?s Ambush Election Rule Change
Challenged rules would allow union bosses to ambush workers into forced-dues-paying union ranks
Washington, D.C. (May 14, 2012) ? Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has struck down the National Labor Relations Board's new rules dictating how union organizing elections are conducted, ruling that the Board did not have a quorum necessary to enact the new rules.
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- Verizon Employee Wins Settlement After CWA Union and Company Officials Collud...
Verizon Employee Wins Settlement After CWA Union and Company Officials Collude to Ignore Her Rights
Worker refused to abandon job during highly-publicized strike
Newport News, VA (May 14, 2012) ? A Newport News, Virginia Verizon (NYSE: VZ) worker has won a settlement from the company and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union, and its local affiliate, for violating her rights following last year's strike that grabbed national headlines.
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- Philadelphia Union Bosses Resort to Threats, Intimidation to Block Nonunion C...
The Philadelphia Daily News has the story:
MATTHEW and Michael Pestronk, two young real-estate developers who came here from Virginia to attend Drexel, are trying to shake up the city?s construction business by hiring nonunion labor at two huge apartment complexes they?re renovating.
But members of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council aren?t happy, and the heated battle of young developers vs. old-school Philadelphia union power has thrown their plans for the Goldtex Building in Callowhill into turmoil.
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- Union Bosses Levy Retaliatory Strike Fine Against Worker After Telling Him to...
Union Bosses Levy Retaliatory Strike Fine Against Worker After Telling Him to Continue Working During Strike
Worker fined over $7,300 for exercising his right to refrain from formal union membership
Kansas City, MO (May 9, 2012) ? A Honeywell nuclear assembly worker has filed a federal charge against a local union for retaliating against him with a $7,361.36 fine for exercising his right to refrain from union membership and continue to do his job during a union boss-instigated strike.
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- Indiana Workers File Brief in Support of State?s New Right to Work Law
Indiana Workers File Brief in Support of State?s New Right to Work Law
Hoosier citizens contest spurious union legal challenge
Lake County, IN (May 7, 2012) ? Two Indiana citizens, David Brubaker and Douglas Richards, have just submitted an amicus curiae brief to defend Indiana?s newly-enacted Right to Work law from a frivolous union legal challenge in state court.
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Brubaker and Richards are both clients of National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys. To comply with Indiana bar and court rules, the Foundation engaged Indiana attorneys Asheesh Agarwal and David Wagner of the Indianapolis office of Ogletree Deakins to file the workers? amicus brief.
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- New Foundation Website Feature: NLRB Watch by Former NLRB Member John Raudabaugh
Today, the National Right to Work Foundation has released a new feature on its website dedicated to exposing the NLRB's pro-compulsory unionism bias and actions.
In "NLRB Watch" Foundation staff attorney, Ave Maria law professor and former National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Member John Raudabaugh, provides his unique perspective of the Board and highlights the unprecedented actions of the Obama Labor Board.
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- U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Obama Administration Stance in Case Challenging Ba...
U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Obama Administration Stance in Case Challenging Backroom Union Deals
Obama Labor Board and Departments of Labor, Justice sought to roll back worker's federal court victory
Hollywood, FL (May 3, 2012) ? The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has shot down the Obama Administration's attempt to roll back a worker's protracted, precedent-setting legal victory against a local union.
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- Civil Servants Appeal Wisconsin Public-Sector Unionism Case to Federal Appeal...
Civil Servants Appeal Wisconsin Public-Sector Unionism Case to Federal Appeals Court
Workers ask court to uphold reform measure protecting most Badger State public workers from forced unionism
Madison, WI (May 1, 2011) ? Three Wisconsin public employees have asked a federal appeals court to uphold all of Governor Scott Walker's public-sector unionism reform measures, known as "Act 10," in the latest development regarding the ongoing court saga.
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- March-April Foundation Action Newsletter
The latest issue of Foundation Action is now available online. The Foundation's bi-monthly newsletter includes the cover story on defending Indiana's new Right to Work law in court. For a free subscription to Foundation Action, click here.
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- Hotel Union Faces Federal Charges for Forcing Nonmember Employees to Fund Lob...
Hotel Union Faces Federal Charges for Forcing Nonmember Employees to Fund Lobbying, Strikes
Case emphasizes need for a Right to Work law in the Aloha State
Honolulu, HI (April 27, 2012) ? With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, two Honolulu Hilton employees have filed federal unfair labor practice charges against the UNITE HERE Local 5 union.
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