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Worker Advocate Urges House Chairmen to Investigate Questionable Pro-Union Rule Change

Will Collins — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:44:23 -0500

Worker Advocate Urges House Chairmen to Investigate Questionable Pro-Union Rule Change

National Mediation Board’s new rules allow airline and railway workers to be unionized without majority support

Delta Flight Attendants Picket Posh Union Boss HQ for Freedom of Choice

Anthony Riedel — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:42:36 -0500

For decades, Delta Air Lines flight attendants have repeatedly rebuked Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) union organizers' efforts to take monopoly bargaining control over their workplaces.

Despite a recent intense union organizing campaign, AFA union officials have lost yet another union organizing election, but true to form, AFA union bosses refuse to leave this independent-minded group of employees alone due to their blind lust for more forced union dues dollars.

So yesterday, more than thirty flight attendants from across the country met outside the AFA union headquarters on their day off to send them a message: "Leave us alone!"

From one participating flight attendant:

Labor Day Recap: National Right to Work Exposes Big Labor's Radical Agenda

Nick Cote — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:27:26 -0400

Over the Labor Day weekend, columns by National Right to Work president Mark Mix appeared in newspapers across the country and online exposing Big Labor's power grabs and coercive practices over American workers.

In Investor's Business Daily Mix highlighted the extremism and ethics problems of Craig Becker, the Service Employee International Union's (SEIU) inside man at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB):

In the face of bipartisan opposition, Obama bypassed Congress and installed Becker at the NLRB through a recess appointment. Now that he's established at the head of an agency responsible for overseeing American labor law, Becker is poised to expand Big Labor's privileges even further.

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Why is the National Mediation Board Telling Workers Who Oppose Unionization False Information?

Nick Cote — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:26:59 -0400

Last week, the National Mediation Board ordered a union "representation" election for Delta Air Lines flight attendants. The NMB will conduct the election under its new controversial rules approved by the two former union officials who now comprise a majority of the board.

The new procedure stacks the deck in favor of unionization by granting a union monopoly bargaining power over railway or airline industry workers if the union acquires support from just a bare majority of workers who turnout for an election, no matter how few actually vote.

But Delta flight attendants, and other workers in the airline and railway industries who could soon find themselves in similar situations, won't know that by reading the Frequently Asked Questions page on the NMB's website.

28. Q: How do voters vote no?

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Airline Workers Challenge Federal Ruling on Sham Transportation Unionization Election Procedures

Nick Cote — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:34:50 -0400

Airline Workers Challenge Federal Ruling on Sham Transportation Unionization Election Procedures

Appeal contests federal district court ruling that upheld new policy stacking the deck in favor of forced unionization of railway and airline employees

Washington, DC (July 22, 2010) – With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, five Delta Air Lines employees have appealed a U.S. District Court judge’s decision to uphold a major rule change on how a union is imposed on railway and airline industry workers.

July/August 2010 Foundation Action Now Available Online

Nick Cote — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:15:16 -0400

The July/August 2010 issue of Foundation Action is now available for download as a PDF. This is the Foundation's official bimonthly publication that provides an excellent overview of hard-hitting legal actions being taken by Foundation attorneys every day to combat forced unionism.

This issue's top story details Delta Air Lines Action" style="margin: 0px 10px" align="right" width="199" height="262" />employees' legal challenge to Obama Administration appointees' scheme to push railway and airline workers into forced union ranks.

Also in this issue:

Delta Employees File Motion to Join Legal Challenge to Controversial Transportation Unionization Rule

Nick Cote — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:04:20 -0400

Delta Employees File Motion to Join Legal Challenge to Controversial Transportation Unionization Rule

Former union officials on National Mediation Board created new policy stacking the deck in favor of forced unionization of railway and airline employees

Worker Advocate Demands Federal Disclosure on Controversial Transportation Union Rule Change

Nick Cote — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:43:50 -0500

Worker Advocate Demands Federal Disclosure on Controversial Transportation Union Rule Change

Former airline union officials should not use federal power to help their
unions corral tens of thousands of workers into union membership

Foundation Attorneys Defend Airline and Railway Workers from Union Boss Sneak Attack

Anthony Riedel — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:11:11 -0500

Union bosses want to their unions to be akin to roach motels: Easy to check in, but impossible to check out.

On Monday, National Right to Work Foundation Vice President Raymond LaJeunesse presented the perspective of independent-minded workers at the National Mediation Board's (NMB) hearing on proposed changes to labor regulations under the Railway Labor Act (RLA) that would enable union organizers to corral tens of thousands of non-union railway and airline industry workers into union membership.

Will Workers Be Barred From Opposing AFL-CIO's Stealth Attack on Railway and Airline Workers?

Anthony Riedel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:35 -0500

Recently, the National Right to Work Foundation sounded the alarm about an under-the-radar attempt by Big Labor to make dramatic changes to labor regulations under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), enabling union organizers to force independent-minded railway and airline industry workers into unwanted union membership.

Big labor partisans from over 30 unions, led by AFL-CIO, pushed to change the current system requiring union bosses to obtain the consent of a true majority of workers in a given bargaining unit to accept their "exclusive representation." Instead, they want a new system that allows just a majority of workers actually voting in a union organizing election to impose unionization on the whole group -- thereby giving union officials the upper hand over workers who would otherwise decline union affiliation.

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Worker Advocate Urges House Chairmen to Investigate Questionable Pro-Union Rule Change

Worker Advocate Urges House Chairmen to Investigate Questionable Pro-Union Rule Change