National Right to Work Foundation attorneys fight Labor Board’s decision to promote monopoly unionism in virtually every workplace in America
Washington, DC (October 26, 2011) – Today, National Right to Work Foundation attorneys filed a motion for summary judgment in their federal lawsuit challenging the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) new union posting rules released recently.
The motion was filed this afternoon in conjunction with National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
This is excellent news; in the Obama administration, agencies such as the NLRB and the EPA have become increasingly strident in their support of unions while working hard to hamstring enterprise.
In today's environment, nobody in their right mind wants to be forced to join a union in order to hold a job. All the union bosses want is the ability to steal part of your paycheck every month, which gives them a big pot of cash to devote to electing Democrats while enriching themselves. Oh, you can tell them that you don't want your "dues" used for political purposes. They'll just tell you to take a hike.
Evidently the "right to work" is one of the rights that haven't been discovered yet. Those have have been are legion: the right to a living wage, the right to a cell phone, the right to an abortion, the right to free stuff, the right to make an ass of yourself in public, ...
You can do all that; you just can't work anywhere unless we say so.
Posted by: ZZMike | October 29, 2011 at 06:36 PM
We are fortunate to live in a country that imposes dignity on us. The dignity of minimum wage, the dignity of union membership.
Simply imagine, a person's willingness to work for a wage less than that mandated by the state's minimum wage, or the union's wage contract. What are the determinants of a person willing to work for less than either of those wage rates? Well, for starters, let's take a look at the massive unemployment of our nation's youth, setting aside the horrendous unemployment of adults over the age of 25.
Through the largesse of our government, we assure our young of their dignity. The legislature has determined that the indignity of low wages is of such importance that the behaviours of those willing to employ at wage rates below the "dignity" rate of the minimum wage are criminalized.
What a country! We have outlawed the dignity of work, of those willing to work, since the wage rate offered--that would provide employment--is beneath the dignity of those willing to work at that wage rate!
So, the gap between the employed and the unemployed continues to increase, and the solution then must be increased transfer payments to low-skilled, little human capital unemployed, to help bridge the gap between haves and have-nots. And driving up the tax burdens of the productive means increased pressure to reduce costs. (Under these conditions, would you predict more, or fewer, employees?)
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Posted by: TMI | October 30, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Excellent. The "undiscovered" right to work, when so many other "rights" are so assiduously tended. The imposition of dignity by governmental fiat.
Denying children the right to pick berries or de-tassel corn, as I did when younger, though I knew I'd never get rich doing it. I was right: I didn't get rich - but I earned enough money to buy things that I wanted.
My dignity didn't suffer.
Posted by: Max | October 30, 2011 at 05:00 PM
Now that's a strange turn of concept: it's somehow "undignified" to work at a low salary, but it is dignified to get a handout from the State.
Posted by: ZZMike | October 31, 2011 at 12:27 PM