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Kansas City Nurse Challenges Backroom Union Deal to Silence Employees Who Oppose Unionization

Anthony Riedel — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:11:06 -0400

Kansas City Nurse Challenges Backroom Union Deal to Silence Employees Who Oppose Unionization

Research Medical Center nurse files federal unfair labor practice charges against secret “neutrality agreement” that gives union organizers preferential treatment

New Right to Work News Release: AT&T Employee Files Federal Charges Against Communications Union for Illegal Threats

Will Collins — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:50:29 -0400

AT&T Employee Files Federal Charges Against Communications Union for Illegal Threats

CWA union bosses told worker they would “take him to court” for refusing to go on strike

St. Louis, Missouri (April 13, 2009) – A St. Louis-based AT&T worker has filed federal unfair labor practice charges against a national union for illegal threats in the run-up to an impending national strike.

With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation, David McBride of Granite City, Illinois filed charges alleging that Communication Workers of America (CWA) union officials threatened him with legal action if he refused to go on strike and failed to provide him with a federally-mandated audit of union expenditures.

Snakepit of Corruption: SEIU Union Bosses' Scandals Pile Up

Anthony Riedel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:51:39 -0500

Last year, Freedom@Work reported on the allegations of corruption against Tyrone Freeman, former boss of the largest Service Employees International Union (SEIU) affiliate in California. Freeman spent nearly three-quarters of a million dollars of rank-and-file workers' forced union dues on his wife's and mother's companies and on a luxurious fat-cat lifestyle. The Los Angeles Times later reported Freeman's SEIU affiliate "charity" failed to spend a single cent on its charitable mission in two of the four years it has been in existence.