Authors

Mark Mix is President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and National Right to Work Committee.       Patrick Semmens is Vice President for Public Information the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Will Collins is Deputy Legal Information Director for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Nick Cote is Deputy Legal Information Director for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Anthony Riedel is Deputy Legal Information Director for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.  

Legal Counsel for Petitioners in First Amendment Battle Comment on Supreme Court Oral Argument

**Washington, DC (January 10, 2007)** – Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, made the following statement regarding today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in *Davenport v. Washington Education Association*. The Foundation is a non-profit organization providing free legal aid to victims of compulsory unionism abuse, and whose staff attorneys filed the case in 2003 and successfully appealed the case to the Supreme Court on behalf of lead petitioner Gary Davenport and 4,000 other nonunion Washington State teachers. “The *Davenport* case is a defensive battle that underscores how labor law is a stacked deck against the individual. In the 28 states without Right to Work laws, millions of employees are forced to choose between paying dues to a union they do not support and losing their job. Washington is one of these states.

TSA Bureaucrats Reverse Bush Administration Policy On National Security Implications Of Airport Screener Unionization

Washington, DC (August 17, 2005) – National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix today wrote to President Bush expressing “deep concern” over the bureaucratic reversal of Administration policy regarding the forced unionization of airport screeners under Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) oversight. Until recent days, the Bush Administration had long been on the record against granting monopoly bargaining privileges to union officials over airport security screeners, citing national security concerns. Mix’s letter to President Bush questions the new position taken by TSA in a leading National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) case considering whether privately employed security screeners under a pilot TSA program may be forcibly unionized under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

San Diego-Area Reliance Metal Center Employees Overwhelmingly Vote to Remove Teamsters Union Officials

Successful effort comes as Biden-Harris NLRB tightens restrictions on workers voting out unions SAN DIEGO, CA - Jesus Arellano and his coworkers at Reliance Metal Center in National City, CA, have successfully voted out Teamsters Local 683 union officials.

AT&T Employees Nationwide Continue Winning Efforts to Remove Unwanted CWA Union Bosses Imposed Through ‘Card Check’

Mississippi and Louisiana AT&T Mobility employees seek to join others in California, Tennessee and Texas who have successfully ousted the CWA MISSISSIPPI & LOUISIANA - In-Home Experts from AT&T Mobility locations across Mississippi and Louisiana have joined together to file petitions seeking elections to remove Communications Workers of America (CWA) union officials from power in their workplaces.

Security Guard Wins Groundbreaking ‘Janus’ Religious Accommodation

À la Janus, religious objector to union affiliation is free from all forced payments SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In their case for Thomas Ross, a San Francisco-based employee of security company Allied Universal who sought a faith-based exemption from paying dues to a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) affiliate, Foundation attorneys won an unprecedented settlement.

Long Beach Worker Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Structure of Biden Labor Board as Unconstitutional

New lawsuit challenges that National Labor Relations Board’s structure unconstitutionally shields both board members and judges from accountability WASHINGTON, DC - Nelson Medina, a Long Beach, CA-based employee of transportation company Savage Services, has just filed a federal lawsuit against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) challenging the Board’s makeup as unconstitutional.

Jewish MIT Graduate Students Force Anti-Israel Union to Abandon Discriminatory Demands for Dues Payment

Settlement includes requirement that GSU union inform 3,000+ students of their right to refrain from paying for radical union political activities BOSTON, MA - Several Jewish graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have prevailed in their legal cases to cut off financial support to the MIT Graduate Student Union (GSU), an affiliate of the United Electrical (UE) union.

Employees at Petaluma, CA, and Dover, OH, Ford Dealerships Successfully Force Out Unwanted IAM Union Officials

Efforts in Ohio and California come as Biden-Harris NLRB tightens restrictions on workers voting out unions CALIFORNIA & OHIO - Employees at Ford dealerships in Petaluma, CA, and Dover, OH, have forced unwanted Teamsters union bosses out of their workplaces.

Genesys Nurse Hits Hospital, Teamsters Union with Additional Federal Charges for Illegal Dues Deductions

New charges latest example of how union bosses are violating workers’ rights following repeal of Michigan Right to Work law FLINT, MI – Madrina Wells, a nurse at Ascension Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc Township, MI, has filed additional federal unfair labor practice charges against the Teamsters Local 332 union and her employer for illegally deducting union dues out of her paycheck in violation of federal law.