Police and Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bill

Michigan Child Care Providers Take Their Case to the Airwaves

Anthony Riedel — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:52:14 -0400

As we recounted earlier this month, National Right to Work Foundation attorneys are fighting a blatant political payback scheme initiated by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to hand over all home-based child-care providers who provide services to state-subsidized low-income families over to government union bosses.

Last week, Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work, and Carrie Schlaud, the courageous lead plaintiff of the providers' class-action lawsuit against Granholm and the United Autoworker (UAW) and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) unions appeared on the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends to discuss the case:

Wasteful Union Boss Rules Provide Sneak Peak at the Police/Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bill

Will Collins — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:34:33 -0400

Via Big Government, here's a damning video explaining the wasteful contract created by New York/New Jersey Police Union officials, which mandates that officers collect overtime pay even after they've been suspended for misconduct:

National Review on the Police/Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bill: "This bill is bad policy and bad politics"

Will Collins — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:15:52 -0400

Here's a must-read editorial from National Review on Big Labor's Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill:

Right to Work Podcast: National Right to Work President Warns of Impending Public Safety Union Boss Power Grab

Will Collins — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:04:34 -0400

National Right to Work President Mark Mix discusses the consequences of the Police/Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill on Richmond, Virginia’s Jimmy Barrett Show. Click here to listen or use the embedded player below:

Newspapers Across the Country Weigh in Against a Federal Police & Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Mandate

Will Collins — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:07:43 -0400

From the Washington Post on down, magazines and newspapers across the country are editorializing against the Police and Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bill, a Big Labor power grab that would shove thousands of public safety employees into union collectives and usurp state and local laws across the country.

Here's Right to Work President Mark Mix in the Richmond Times Dispatch:

With Reid and his Big Labor allies in Congress in full payback mode, Sen. Jim Webb's and Sen. Mark Warner's votes could easily determine the fate of Virginia's public safety workers.

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Right to Work on the Radio: Beware the Police/Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill

Will Collins — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:01:01 -0400

National Right to Work Legislative Director Dmitri Kesari appeared on the Lars Larson show to discuss Big Labor's latest effort to push the Police/Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bill into law. Click here to listen or use the embedded player below:

Even Big Labor Apologists Can't Stomach Mandating Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining by Federal Fiat

Will Collins — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:29:50 -0400

Many Freedom@Work readers are already following the latest Big Labor offensive on Capitol Hill. Under the guise of protecting our first responders, pro-forced unionism politicians are attempting to ram home the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill.

This legislation would force states to adopt monopoly union bargaining for all police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians. Not only would this bill push unwilling public safety employees into Big Labor's forced dues-paying ranks, it would also usurp the right of state and local governments to determine if their employees unionize.

Irony: Obama Names Andy Stern to Deficit Panel

Patrick Semmens — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:02:46 -0500

If the goal of Obama's Deficit Panel is to increase government budget deficits then naming SEIU top boss Andy Stern makes perfect sense. But since the supposed goal is to reduce the record budget shortfalls, Stern's nomination is a real head-scratcher.

As many union members know, the self-interest of union bosses to corral more workers into dues-paying ranks often has severe costs. And now that more than half of our nation's government workers are now under union boss monopoly bargaining control, it's becoming abundantly clear that one of these costs is the growth of government to fiscally unsustainable levels.

Big Government: Big Labor's "Bread and Butter"

Anthony Riedel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:11:45 -0500

The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) just released a new study detailing the disturbing trend of the forced unionization of government workers. In it, NILRR points out that in 2008 and the first 11 months of 2009, unionized private-sector workers lost their jobs at more than double the rate than their private-sector non-unionized colleagues.

Meanwhile, for the first time ever, more than half of our nation's government workers are now under union boss monopoly bargaining control and the number is growing with disastrous consequences:

Big Labor Exploits Another Terror Attack to Expand Compulsory Unionism

Anthony Riedel — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:31:59 -0500

True to form, compulsory unionism advocates are exploiting a serious situation to try to force more workers into union monopoly control. In this case, union bosses have long set their sights on forcing America's airport screeners into union ranks. From the Wall Street Journal: