New Right to Work Podcast: How Forced Unionism Hurts Growth and Job Creation

Right to Work President Mark Mix sat down with Richmond, Virginia's Jimmy Barrett Show to discuss how forced unionism is hurting our chances at a strong economic recovery. Click here to listen or use the embedded player below:

Right to Work Committee: Kagan Opposes First Amendment Right to Refrain from Supporting Union Boss Politics

As reported in today's Washington Examiner, the National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix sent a letter to the U.S. Senate opposing Elena Kagan's confirmation as a Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court for misrepresenting her views regarding the use of forced union dues for union boss political activity. From the Examiner:

Right to Work Podcast: National Right to Work President Warns of Impending Public Safety Union Boss Power Grab

National Right to Work President Mark Mix discusses the consequences of the Police/Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill on Richmond, Virginia’s Jimmy Barrett Show. Click here to listen or use the embedded player below:

Newspapers Across the Country Weigh in Against a Federal Police & Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Mandate

From the Washington Post on down, magazines and newspapers across the country are editorializing against the Police and Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bill, a Big Labor power grab that would shove thousands of public safety employees into union collectives and usurp state and local laws across the country. Here's Right to Work President Mark Mix in the Richmond Times Dispatch: With Reid and his Big Labor allies in Congress in full payback mode, Sen. Jim Webb's and Sen. Mark Warner's votes could easily determine the fate of Virginia's public safety workers.

New Right to Work Podcast: How «Project Labor Agreements» Line Big Labor’s Pockets

Right to Work President Mark Mix appeared on "The Gary Nolan Show" to explain how Project Labor Agreements enrich union bosses. Click here to listen or use the embedded player below:

New Obama Administration Contracting Policy «Nothing More Than Payback» to Big Labor

Washington, DC (April 13, 2010) – Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved a policy initiated by President Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13502, encouraging federal agencies to discriminate against nonunion workers and employers by adopting so-called “project labor agreements” (PLAs) on all federal construction projects costing the taxpayers over $25 million. Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, released the following statement about the policy. “The Obama Administration’s policy is a slap in the face to the vast majority of construction workers who have chosen not to unionize. Qualified nonunion contractors whose workers have opted against unionization will be locked out from large-scale construction projects. The true purpose of so-called project labor agreements is simple: to impose unwanted union boss control on workers from the top-down.

Right to Work on the Radio: Why Michigan Would Benefit from Right to Work

Right to Work President Mark Mix appeared on The Frank Beckmann Show in Detroit yesterday to discuss the Foundation's legal program and why Michigan would benefit from a Right to Work law. Click here to listen or use the embedded player below:

Right to Work’s Audio Primer on Craig Becker’s Forced Unionism Agenda

Today, Craig Becker - Associate General Counsel for the AFL-CIO and radical SEIU - officially took his seat on the National Labor Relations Board. For a rundown of Craig Becker's controversial recess appointment to the NLRB, listen to these two recent radio interviews featuring National Right to Work President Mark Mix. First, Mark Mix sat down with nationally-syndicated radio host Lars Larson for a short primer on Becker's forced unionism agenda. Click here to listen or use the emebedded player below:

Statement on Supreme Court’s Failure to Take Up Reed Case: Ending Forced Unionism is the Best Way to Protect Employees of Faith

Today, the Supreme Court announced its decision not to hear Jeffrey Reed v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, a case brought by Foundation attorneys that challenged a discriminatory United Auto Workers (UAW) forced unionism policy. In response to the Court's failure to take up the case, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix issued the following statement:

Right to Work on Glenn Beck: Big Labor’s Unfunded Pension Plans Are Bankrupting America

Yesterday, National Right to Work President Mark Mix appeared on the Glenn Beck Show to explain the looming fiscal threat of government sector unions' under-funded pension plans: