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Syndicated columnist Doug Bandow has a piece out detailing efforts by the AFL-CIO brass to enlist the help of the United Nations affiliate International Labor Organization (ILO) in attaining more special privileges to corral workers into forced unionism.

Bandow cites that union officials are:

"...no longer are satisfied playing solely by U.S. rules."

How true. The column also addresses the controversy over the forced unionization of TSA screeners, an issue the National Right to Work Foundation has weighed in on during past years.

Mine workers union boss Cecil Roberts went on a tirade today accusing the NLRB of being the "Right to Work" Board. We must have missed something.

A Washington Post piece about yesterday's NLRB protests by paid union professionals against recent NLRB decisions, including Right to Work's Dana/Metaldyne victory for employees, characterizes the decision repeating the doublespeak often trotted out by union officials:

"One of the board's decisions, issued Sept. 29, limits a key membership-building technique..."

Not to mention the fact that in the underlying cases 35% and 50% of employees respectively signed petitions for an election to toss out the unwanted United Auto Workers union as soon as it was recognized! Perhaps a "key involuntary membership building" scheme would be a more accurate characterization.

This article did not recognize that these challenges to abusive "card check" organizing were employee driven, and would've been well served to add this perspective.

And speaking of which, you can read more about Dana/Metaldyne in the cover story of the latest Foundaiton Action, available hot off the presses here.

The PBS documentary series "Voices of Vision" produced a feature on the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and Right to Work movement. View Part 1 of 3 below. You can view part two here, and three here. The video highlights first hand testimonials from the victims of compulsory unionism, American workers to which the Foundation provides free legal aid every day.

National Right to Work Foundation Staff Attorney Glenn Taubman had a letter to the editor in the Washington Post over the weekend concerning whining about the recent Dana/Metaldyne victory. He wrote:

These cases were brought by workers to protect their right to freely choose or reject unionization. In both cases, employees were pressured to sign cards that were counted as "votes" for unionization. In both cases, the unions and the employers signed private deals apparently intended to result in unionization regardless of employee sentiment.

That said, it comes as no surprise that the NLRB majority in the case cited that the coercive "card check" union organizing scheme is "admittedly inferior" in protecting employee free choice.

The employee-led uproar over forced union dues taken by SEIU Union Local 1000 in California has prompted a top union official to campaign in favor of forced dues.

The article states that a "majority of the employees that attended the event disagreed," citing "non responsiveness" on behalf of the union hierarchy. As we've noted before, aside from protecting freedom of choice, Right to Work laws promote accountability of union officials to rank and file workers.

The article also states:

Also, employees were not happy that although state employees recently received a three percent pay raise, the Union countered with a 1.5 union fee increase taking away almost fifty percent of the wage increase.

No wonder these employees aren't happy, almost half of their raise was swallowed up by forced union dues!

The Philadelphia Inquirer today reports:

Accusing trade unions of standing in the way of minority hiring objectives, City Council yesterday declared the $700 million Convention Center expansion open to nonunion contractors and workers - an unprecedented gesture in a city dominated by organized labor.

Union officials commonly shut out minority and nonunion contractors from such projects through so-called "project labor agreements." These cynical pacts require all contractors, whether they are unionized or not, to subject themselves and their employees to unionization in order to work on a government-funded construction project.

For more information on the harmful effects of PLAs, see this study from the National Institute for Labor Relations Research.