Talking Economics on CNBC’s Power Lunch

Speaking of the economic benefits of Right to Work, here's another recent national television appearance by Mark Mix on CNBC's "Power Lunch" discussing that very topic.

Labor Day 2007 Opinion Smorgasbord

Here are just some of the op-eds from National Right to Work out there today on Labor Day 2007.Mark Mix has a piece in the Washington Times about the Police and Fire Fighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill. Mark also writes today in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram about the Foundation's latest efforts to protect workers from compulsory unionism in the Lone Star State. He also has pieces in the Great Falls Tribune about a Montana Right to Work law, in the Detroit Free Press about a Michigan Right to Work law (scroll down), and the Rochester Post Bulletin on the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill.Meanwhile, Stefan Gleason writes on National Review Online about the National Labor Relations Board failing America's workers.Also worthy of mention today are columns from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review and Detroit News on the Right to Work issue.

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).

20 Wonderful Nurseries Farmworkers Seek to Join Federal Challenge to Biased Pro-Union Boss California Agricultural Labor Law

Filing: UFW union-backed law sweeps workers into union via coercive ‘card check’ scheme and imposes forced dues in violation of First Amendment BAKERSFIELD, CA - A group of 20 employees of food and drink company Wonderful Nurseries’ Wasco, CA, facility have filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging a California law that will force them under the control of United Farm Workers (UFW) union officials, to whom they have strenuously objected.

DOJ Attorney Challenges NTEU Union Bosses’ Attempt to Grab Control Over Justice Department Divisions Ahead of Admin Change

Filings: Federal Labor Relations Authority’s decision to approve unionization attempts in Civil Rights and Environmental divisions violates precedent WASHINGTON, DC - A veteran Department of Justice trial attorney has just submitted two filings challenging a last-minute attempt by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) to gain monopoly bargaining control over attorneys at the Civil Rights Division (CRT) and Environmental and Natural Resources Division (ENRD).

Troy-Based Eaton Corporation Worker Challenges IAM Union Scheme Pushing Termination, Fines on Workers Who Oppose Union

Federal charge: IAM officials illegally demanded money, threatened termination of workers who resigned union membership after divisive strike ST. LOUIS, MO - An employee of power management firm Eaton Corporation’s Troy, Illinois, facility has just filed federal charges against the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union for violating the rights of multiple employees at his workplace.

Fairmont, MN, Mayo Clinic Nurses Vote to Remove MNA Union From Facility

Latest in string of union ejections by Mayo Clinic healthcare professionals across state FAIRMONT, MN - Nurses at Mayo Clinic’s Fairmont Medical Center have just voted 26-15 to eject Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) union officials from their facility.

MIT Graduate Students Defeat Discriminatory Dues Demands From Radical Campus Union

Union must cease forced dues, inform thousands of MIT graduate students of right to defund union politics BOSTON, MA – National Right to Work Foundation-backed MIT graduate students who fought for their legal rights have earned well-deserved victories. But defending basic free association rights shouldn’t require such complicated litigation.