Worker Files Federal Charge After Truck Firebombed During Union-Instigated Strike

Chicago, IL (June 6, 2013) – A Chicago-area South Water Market, Inc. worker has filed a federal charge against a Chicago Teamster union local alleging that union militants threatened him, his family and his property, and that his personal property was damaged shortly after he received those threats.The worker filed the charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in Chicago with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.The Teamsters Local 703 union has been on strike at South Water Market. However, some of the workers are not union members and refuse to abandon their jobs. Under federal law, workers who are not union members cannot be disciplined for continuing to work during a strike.

Minnesota Childcare Providers File Federal Lawsuit Challenging Forced Unionization Scheme

Minneapolis, MN (June 5, 2013) – A group of Minnesota home-based childcare providers have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new law that seeks to forcibly unionize the state's home-based childcare providers.Jennifer Parrish from Rochester and 11 other providers from around the state filed the suit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.Parrish and other providers seek to halt implementation of a recently-passed law intended to designate Service Employees International Union (SEIU) or American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) officials as the monopoly political representative of thousands of providers in the state, who are either business owners or family members who take care of children within their families.

West Virginia Utility Worker Wins $10,000 Settlements from Penn Line Service, Local Laborer Union

Beckley, WV (May 31, 2013) – A former Penn Service Line, Inc. truck driver/laborer has won a substantial federal settlement from a Pennsylvania-based construction company and a West Virginia union after the company and union violated his rights and illegally seized union dues from his paychecks for the union's political action committee (PAC).Jeff Richmond of Meadow Bridge, WV, received free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.In July 2012, when Penn Line Service hired Richmond, company management told him that the job was a "union job." Between July and October, the company confiscated, and the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 453 accepted, full union dues from Richmond's paychecks even though he had not joined the union or consented to union dues payments.

Nurses File Federal Charges Against SEIU and Hospital Corporation for Coercive Scheme

Thousand Oaks, California (May 20, 2013) – Three nurses at Thousand Oaks Surgical Hospital have filed federal charges against a major healthcare union and the hospital corporation for illegally forcing them and their coworkers into an unwanted union.With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, the three nurses filed the unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).In late November 2012, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Holdings, Inc.-owned Los Robles Hospital purchased Thousand Oaks Surgical Hospital. In late April 2013, HCA Holdings, Inc. and Los Robles Hospital management announced that Thousand Oaks Surgical Hospital workers were "represented" by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers West and SEIU Local 121 RN union officials and "accreted" into to the pre-existing Los Robles-SEIU monopoly bargaining units.

Another Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Obama Labor Board Recess Appointments

Another Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Obama Labor Board Recess Appointments Purported recess appointments were invalid because Senate was not in recess Washington, DC (May 16, 2013) – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit struck down one of President Barack Obama's purported "recess appointments," dating back to March 27, 2010. Earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down two other Obama so-called "recess appointments" to the Board.

Nurse Union Faces Federal Suit for Selling out Workers

Massillon, OH (May 14, 2013) – Four local nurses have filed a federal lawsuit against the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) union for violating its duty of fair representation by striking a backroom deal with company management in exchange for its assistance with unionizing its nurses.With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, Affinity Medical Center nurses Cinda Keener, Susan Kelley, Ryan Chizmadia, and Katherine Manfull filed the lawsuit with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division in Akron.NNOC union organizers and Community Health Systems (CHS) management entered into a "neutrality agreement" designed to help the union organizers impose monopoly bargaining on all the nurses at Affinity and at least two other CHS hospitals. In the agreement, union organizers were given preferential access to the facility and conducted a "quicksnap" unionization election.

Ravenswood Steelworker Union Hierarchy Faces Federal Charges in Wake of Strike Intimidation

Ravenswood, WV (May 9, 2013) – Four Constellium Rolled Products workers have filed federal charges against a local Steelworker union in the wake of last summer's union-instigated strike against the company.With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, the Constellium employees filed the unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).The four workers resigned their union membership in the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 5668 union before they continued to work during the strike. Under federal law, workers who refrain from union membership are exempt from the union hierarchy's constitution and bylaws and thus cannot be disciplined for continuing to work during a union boss-ordered strike.

Appeals Court Orders NLRB to Justify Activities in Wake of Recess Ruling

Washington, DC (May 7, 2013) – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered a consolidation and renewed briefing in three mandamus cases, all of which asked the Court to order the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to suspend further action in the wake of the Court’s ruling in Noel Canning invalidating President Barack Obama’s controversial “recess appointments” to the Board. In Noel Canning, the Court held that the President’s “recess appointments” were invalid because the Senate was not in recess, and because the vacancies the President purported to fill did not “happen” during such a recess, as required by the United States Constitution. Consequently, the Board has lacked a quorum to issue decisions since January 3, 2012, potentially invalidating all NLRB rulings made during that period. The mandamus petitions seek to apply the Noel Canning ruling to cases currently before the NLRB.

Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down NLRB Rule to Push More Workers into Union Ranks

Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down NLRB Rule to Push More Workers into Union Ranks Right to Work Foundation fights Labor Board's decision to promote monopoly unionism in virtually every workplace in America