Indiana

New Right to Work Video: The Truth About Card Check

Will Collins — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:26:17 -0400

With all the controversy surrounding card check legislation, it's worth talking to workers who've actually experienced the procedure first-hand. With that in mind, the National Right to Work Foundation interviewed several employees who endured intimidation, harassment and coercion at the hands of union organizers during an actual card check drive. After UAW organizers forced their way into the workplace through the coercive card check scheme, the workers forced a secret ballot decertification vote (using a precedent won by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys) and tossed out the unwanted union.

Here's the video:

School Bus Drivers File Charges against AFSCME Union for Illegal Threats, Dues Collections

Nick Cote — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:50:41 -0400

School Bus Drivers File Charges against AFSCME Union for Illegal Threats, Dues Collections

Lack of Right to Work law leads to ugly union abuse of workers

Indianapolis, IN (April 24, 2009)– With free legal aid from staff attorneys at the National Right to Work Foundation, three bus drivers have filed federal unfair labor practice charges against union bosses for an illegal scheme to bully nonmember employees into paying full union dues.

Regular Working Mom Fights Off Abusive UAW Union Operatives

Will Collins — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:59:35 -0400

Using card check, UAW operatives muscled their way into a plant in Albion, Indiana. The courageous working mom featured below joined with her coworkers to exercise legal rights won by the National Right to Work Foundation to throw the union back out.

Check out the National Right to Work Committee's latest video on one working mom's encounter with professional UAW organizers:

"Let us have our vote" - Deck Stacked Against Workers Trying to Throw Out Unwanted Union

Will Collins — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:27:54 -0400

Sonoma County grape pickers aren't the only workers facing prolonged union occupation - an employee decertification election aimed at ejecting International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 from a Northwest Indiana plant has also been repeatedly stalled by frivolous union blocking charges:

New Right to Work Video: Real Faces of Card Check Intimidation

Nick Cote — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:33:00 -0400

In this new special National Right to Work Committee video report, Dana Corporation employees in Albion, Indiana, share their stories of harassment and intimidation by UAW union operatives during a militant card check organizing drive. The workers discuss how union organizers specifically targeted and ramped up their coercive tactics against female employees.

As one worker explains in the video, “People in the UAW will call you their sister or their brother. I never treated any of my brothers and sisters that way.”

UAW union organizers were able to collect a majority of signatures after weeks of pressure on the employees. Thanks to a precedent won by attorneys with the National Right to Work Foundation, the employees eventually forced an election and defeated the UAW union hierarchy.

Workers Tell Fox News: Card Check Intimidation is Very Real, Very Dangerous

Nick Cote — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:33:31 -0400

Yesterday, Fox News followed up on its earlier story about a real-life case demonstrating how dangerous Card Check Instant Organizing drives are – and a clear example of the kind of intimidation and harassment that will occur at substantially more American workplaces if the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill passes.

In the new video report, seen below, Dana Corp. employees in Albion, Indiana, tell Fox News how United Auto Workers union organizers created an ugly and coercive environment Many workers signed cards just to stop the constant pressure of union organizers harassing them at work, in the parking lot, and even at home.

Fox News Channel Interviews Big Labor's "Card Check" Organizing Victims

Will Collins — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:11:39 -0400

Fox News just released a video report on card check from Albion, Indiana, where workers suffered through a vicious UAW organizing campaign:

Many of these employees exercised rights established by legal rulings won by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys. Here's the Foundation's original video report:

Snakepit of Corruption: SEIU Union Bosses' Scandals Pile Up

Anthony Riedel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:51:39 -0500

Last year, Freedom@Work reported on the allegations of corruption against Tyrone Freeman, former boss of the largest Service Employees International Union (SEIU) affiliate in California. Freeman spent nearly three-quarters of a million dollars of rank-and-file workers' forced union dues on his wife's and mother's companies and on a luxurious fat-cat lifestyle. The Los Angeles Times later reported Freeman's SEIU affiliate "charity" failed to spend a single cent on its charitable mission in two of the four years it has been in existence.

Kennedy: Having no election is "Simple and Fair"

Justin Hakes — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:34:19 -0400

Senator Ted Kennedy responds to the Wall Street Journal's recent piece that among other things, exposed the coercive nature of "card check" union organizing. He brands the process "simple and fair," but maybe he should watch the video below, which we posted a few weeks back. The only thing simple about such campaigns is how unfair to employees they are. Read more in this letter to the editor from today.

New Video: Coercive "Card Check" Union Organizing Victims Speak Out

Justin Hakes — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:45:39 -0500

A group of Dana Corporation employees from Albion, Indiana, recently fought their way free of the unwanted United Auto Workers union capitalizing on a ruling won by the National Right to Work Foundation.