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.

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.

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National Right to Work attorneys’ recent victory for employee free choice at the NLRB was the topic of much debate at a meeting of the pro-forced unionism American Bar Association, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Union partisans typically condemned the newly established rights for employees. Once again, however, the meeting attendees did not get to hear from any representative from the National Right to Work Foundation, the group actually winning the main cases at issue and leading the charge to protect employees from "card check" organizing abuses.

Despite the hue and cry of union officials, the actions of the Bush NLRB to correct literally dozens of activist, pro-compulsory unionism rulings issued by the Clinton NLRB have been limited, delayed, and sparse. The Bush NLRB has a lot of work left to do and little time to do it.

Following up with 10-year veteran timber trucker Michael Weller was a statement in this article in the Flathead Beacon today that might have mislead some readers:

“As a non-union member in an industry where many of his colleagues join the union, Weller receives the benefits of increased pay when wage agreements are worked out through collective bargaining by the union.”

The Flathead Beacon misses the point. Weller, who works in a forced unionism state, is required to pay for the cost of unwanted monopoly bargaining – despite the fact he doesn’t formally belong to the union in the first place. The article did highlight, however:

“Weller paid the charges out of fear of losing his job…”

All too often, workers in states without Right to Work laws are forced to pay for monopoly bargaining.

When an employee is forced to pay dues to a union in order to get or keep a job, it’s hardly accurate to call that a “benefit.”

ABC has apparently issued a memo advising writers wishing to continue working during the ongoing strike of their right to do so after resigning from formal union membership. States the memo:

"The decision whether to join or not join the strike is an individual decision for each person to make."

Unfortunately, many employees across America do not know about these rights or are stonewalled in excercising them by union officials. Anyone that does not want to walk off the job during a union-ordered strike can learn more about their right to continue working here.

Right to Work attorneys helped Montana timber trucker Michael Weller file federal charges against the Teamsters Local 2 after union officials unlawfully ordered him to pay hundreds of dollars in forced dues.

When Weller exercised his rights under Beck, Teamsters union officials responded by illegally threatening to have him fired from his job.

The Daily Inter Lake quoted Weller:

“It’s the principle of the matter. What prompted this was them threatening my job. I’m not real big on people threatening me.”

As Right to Work attorneys’ efforts on behalf of Pomona nurses grab headlines, one noteworthy comment comes from SEIU union official Sue Weinstein. Aside from the issues of threats of fines, arrests, and jail:

As for the dues, Weinstein said the local has a policy not to collect dues retroactively.

The union operatives that widely distributed this flier (see underlined portion) must be unfamiliar with that policy.

Union officials are threatening nurses in Pomona, California, with fines, arrests, and jail for refusal to walk off the job during a union ordered strike early in October. Right to Work attorneys helped a nurse challenge this coercion earlier this week at the National Labor Relations Board.

Employees that do not want to abandon their jobs during a strike can learn more here.

The arrest threats sound all too familiar.

The Press of Atlantic City today wrote about the brief filed by Right to Work attorneys in the Trump Plaza union election dispute, which you can read more about here. The brief states that if the election is not set aside:

"…politicians can (and will) use the authority of their office to mislead employees that the government requires or favors a particular result in Board certification elections."

To watch video of the sham union "certification" event at issue, click here.