Right to Work on CNN: Ugly SEIU “Corporate Campaign” Targets Bank of America Tellers

Big Labor's leverage over American businesses and their employees is reaching new levels. The powerful Service Employees International Union is flexing its political muscles, demanding the Obama Administration remove the CEO of Bank of America as part of a campaign to impose unionization on its unsuspecting bank tellers. Check out the full video report from CNN's Lou Dobbs, which includes a segment with National Right to Work President Mark Mix:

Right to Work Video: Stop the Obama Administration from Trashing Basic Union Disclosure Requirements

Regular Freedom@Work readers already know that AFL-CIO bosses just spent a week at a luxurious beachfront resort in Miami with VP Biden and Secretary of Labor Solis. Now they want the Department of Labor to rescind simple disclosure guidelines that would help rank-and-file workers learn when they're funding extravagant union getaways. Check out the National Right to Work video with Committee and Foundation President Mark Mix for more information:

Worker Advocate Urges Gov. Sonny Perdue to Enforce Georgia’s Longstanding Right to Work Law

Atlanta, GA (March 12, 2009) – National Right to Work Foundation president Mark Mix called upon Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to defend Georgia’s cherished Right to Work law that is in danger of becoming a dead letter as a result of a sloppy Georgia appellate court ruling and an Attorney General who has so far refused to defend the law. “On behalf of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and the union-abused Georgia employees it is assisting, I urge you to use the power granted to you by the laws of the State of Georgia to ensure that Georgia’s longstanding and popular Right to Work law is enforced,” Mix urged Governor Perdue.

CNN: National Right to Work Discusses Card Check on Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs' recent report on Card Check featured an interview with Committee and Foundation President Mark Mix. Check out the video for a full account of union bosses' extensive political connections to the Obama Administration and Capitol Hill, as well as their ambitious legislative priorities:

Video: Right to Work at CPAC – The Dangers of Card Check

Foundation President Mark Mix spoke on the dangers of card check legislation at the 2009 CPAC Conference in Washington, DC. Here's the video: For previous Foundation card check coverage, click here.

New Right to Work Podcast: Stop the Obama Administration from Rolling Back Union Disclosure Guidelines

For those of you who missed it, the National Right to Work Foundation recently released a video featuring Foundation President Mark Mix urging all Right to Work supporters to get involved in our efforts to stop the Obama Administration from rolling back basic union disclosure regulations. Now Mix's message is available in podcast form. Click here to listen:

How to Make the Economy Worse In One Easy Step: Give Union Bosses Even More Coercive Power

With so much focus on the economic crisis, it's worth revisiting a Wall Street Journal article penned recently by National Right to Work Committee and Foundation President Mark Mix. The article explains how a massive expansion in forced unionism power played a key role in making the Great Depression longer and deeper: By the mid-1930s, the U.S. economy appeared to be climbing out of the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), which had bottomed out at 41 in 1932, was advancing. It increased 73% from the beginning of 1935 through the end of 1936, when it hit 180. The number of unemployed, 13 million in 1933, dropped to 9.5 million in 1935 and 7.6 million in 1936. Then, in 1937, the DJIA plunged 33% in what is often called "a depression within a depression." Joblessness skyrocketed.

Worker Advocate Warns Against Plans to Table Improvements in Union Financial Disclosure

This week, National Right to Work Foundation president Mark Mix sent a formal letter to the director of the Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards, the federal agency tasked with providing union members and nonmembers with valuable information about how union bosses are spending their forced dues. The letter is in response to the Obama Administration's apparent intention to delay (and ultimately cancel) some needed refinements to reporting requirements established by the Bush Administration which enhance union transparency and accountability of union expenditures. Here are a few examples of union boss malfeasance the planned LM-2 revisions would elucidate:

Obama Makes First Major Payback to Big Labor

Labor Secretary handed sweeping new enforcement powers, while workers remain in the dark about right to refrain from union membership Washington, DC (January 30, 2009) – President Barack Obama issued two decrees today intended to corral millions more American workers into forced unionism. “After spending more than a billion dollars in forced union dues to get Obama elected, the union bosses have received their first major payoff – two executive orders intended to grease the rails for coercive union organizing, set up the Secretary of Labor as federal labor law czar, and keep workers in the dark about their rights to refrain from union membership,” said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. “Obama’s two executive orders serve one basic goal: to seize more forced dues revenue to fund Big Labor’s political agenda.”

Blacklisting Rule: Obama Makes First Major Payback to Big Labor

Washington, DC (January 30, 2009) – President Barack Obama issued two decrees today intended to corral millions more American workers into forced unionism while blacklisting non-union employees from working on taxpayer funded projects. “After spending more than a billion dollars in forced union dues to get Obama elected, the union bosses have received their first major payoff – two executive orders intended to grease the rails for coercive union organizing, give the Secretary of Labor the power to blacklist union-targeted employers and employees, and keep workers in the dark about their rights to refrain from union membership,” said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. “Obama’s two executive orders serve one basic goal: to seize more forced dues revenue to fund Big Labor’s political agenda.”