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                            Encourage Congress to Pass the Workplace Democracy and Fairness Act 

According to the Friends of the U.S. Chamber, Congress is about to fight back against the overreach of the unelected bureaucrats at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) – and your help is needed.

The House is expected to vote this week on the Workforce and Democracy Fairness Act (H.R. 3094) – and we ask that you email your members of Congress to urge them to support this common sense bill.

This bill is designed to fight back against the NLRB’s efforts to end-run Congress to enact a radical, anti-business agenda. They have tried everything from attempting to limit the ability of employers to exercise their free speech rights to giving businesses less time to respond to unionizing efforts.

It would block the NLRB’s proposed “ambush election rule” by providing for fair representation hearing processes and guarantee that employees have ample opportunity to hear both sides of the debate before casting their ballots in a representation election. 

It would also codify the long-standing criteria that the Board has traditionally used for determining the appropriateness of a proposed bargaining unit.

The House must pass this bill.  Email your members of Congress to make sure they get the message. It’s time to tell the NLRB “enough is enough.”

Now is the time for us all to standup and help STOP the big power Unions and Keep Americans work choice free and fair.

New EPA rules that threaten to cause electricity rates to “necessarily skyrocket” are also going to kill jobs all across the country. And the prospect of this attack on the economy is making both unions and small-government types stand up and protest.

Union workers in Missouri recognize that the EPA’s aggressive push will cost consumers more money while threatening to destroy jobs.

The Chamber of Commerce has been screaming about the EPAs jobs-strangling regulation for months. Bill Kovacs, Senior VP of science, technology and regulatory affairs testified before a Congressional Committee last summer:The cumulative impact of regulatory action can be overwhelming:  agencies literally have the power to decide the fate of firms and entire industries.  American Electric Power Co. made headlines last month when it disclosed that EPA’s “train wreck” of coal industry regulations—Coal Ash, Utility MACT, the Transport Rule and Cooling Water Intake structures—would force the utility to retire 6,000 megawatts of coal-fired generating capacity and spend another $6 billion to $8 billion reworking the rest of its fleet.  AEP would close three power plants in West Virginia, one in Ohio and one in Virginia, and would retire several boilers at coal plants in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and Virginia.  

     Unions are against the new EPA rules. Governors and utility companies are fighting it in the courts. And citizens will be hurt by massive, nationwide job losses as well as increased electricity costs

For those Americans who voted for Obama you can’t say he did’nt warn you ! Watch the video and read the entire article by: The Blaze

Maybe even the Big Unions are starting to realize Big Government is not the way to go.

Back in December of last year, the NLRB proposed a new rule to require
all private employers to post a notice describing to employees their
“rights to organize” under the NLRA (while not requiring ANY mention
of their right NOT to organize).

A press release from the board today announced the finalization of
this rule. All employers covered by the Act are required to post the
notice in their workplace by Nov. 14th, 2011.

Visit the Labor Relations Institute at :http://lrionline.com/nlrb-posting-rules for posting requirements

We believe the National Labor Relations Board is once again changing rules and playing favorites with the Unions.

To read a copy of  The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

 Spread the word to all of your friends and business associates as to what is really taking place in this Great country of ours,  how our work choices are being taken away more and more each day.

In a speech Saturday in Iowa Sarah Palin addressed Union Workers. She said :

” What I say now, I say as a proud former union member and the wife, daughter, and sister of union members. So, as a former card-carrying IBEW sister married to a proud former Laborers, IBEW, and later USW member, please hear me out. What I have to say is for the hard working, patriotic, selfless union brothers and sisters in Michigan and throughout our country: Please don’t be taken in by union bosses’ thuggery like Jim Hoffa represented yesterday. Union bosses like this do not have your best interests at heart. What they care about is their own power and re-electing their friend Barack Obama so he will take care of them to the detriment of everyone else “.

Whether you support Palin or not this is a great speech please read the whole thing !

 The Obama Labor Board’s outrageous attack on Boeing shows how little the union bosses and their political allies really care about jobs — unless they can force workers to pay union dues or “fees.”

 The union bosses are “grabbing the golden goose and squeezing that last final golden egg out” by scheming to eliminate nonunion private-sector jobs and lobbying for bigger government so they can corral more government workers into dues-paying ranks.

Please watch the video with the National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix

Help support the National Right to Work Foundation and visit their website at :http://www.nrtw.org/

Great Groups like this help to keep Americans work choice free .

We  found more articles about Project Labor Agreements. One important fact is that most PLA will cost 15 percent more that a contract without a PLA. 

According to a new study released by the National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR), California school construction projects built using project labor agreements (PLAs) experienced increased costs of 13 percent to 15 percent, or $28.90 to $32.49 per square foot, compared to projects that did not use a PLA.

The findings of the NUSIPR study are particularly important because California voters have approved $64 billion in school construction bonds during the past decade and several school districts have adopted the use of PLAs on these projects.

Typical PLAs are pre-hire contracts that require projects be awarded only to contractors and subcontractors that agree to:

• recognize unions as the representatives of their employees on that job
• use the union hiring hall to obtain workers
• obtain apprentices exclusively from union apprenticeship programs
• pay into underfunded and mismanaged union pension and benefit plans
• obey costly, restrictive and inefficient union work rules

Please read the whole article and visit this site : The Truth About PLA’s 

The Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. is a great Association standing up for the Merit shops across this great country of ours.

Look how quickly states can turn their economy around with a little bit of help from the people who live there.

If you’re wondering why the schools are having such a dramatic turnaround in their funding**, well, it’s not just from having teachers kick in more towards their pension. As I wrote about at the beginning of the month, there’s also something called the Wisconsin Education Association Trust (or WEA Trust). The WEA Trust (which was set up by Big Labor, of course) used to be effectively the only health care provider option available to many school boards… and, seeing as the school boards had no choice but to use it, the WEA Trust was utterly indifferent to market forces. But once labor union reform took effect, lo! – school boards in places like Hartland-Lakeside, Pewaukee, and Menomonee Falls are cheerfully switching their coverage – and why the Kaukauna school district has discovered that WEA Trust is now downright eager to match their new competitors’ lowest prices. It’s amazing how reasonable a seller can get when you suddenly no longer have to buy from him.

Please read this article posted by :

Posted by Moe Lane (Profile)

Tuesday, July 26th at 3:30PM EDT

The facts that we find in this article are facts that the teachers union does not want us to know about.. Maybe we should dig deeper and see what else we find !

Here we go again.. It is not new news it seems to be the problem with most of the Government agencies and unions these days.

The Postal Service employs three times as many union members as the U.S. auto industry, and, like the auto industry, employee benefit costs are crushing it. Just last month, the Postal Service had to suspend contributions to employee pensions because the agency is already drowning in red ink. Postal employees also earn 15 percent to 20 percent more per hour than comparable workers in the private sector.

Please read the article and the comments it is interesting. Same old problem to many supervisors and chief making the big bucks while the small employees keep paying their dues.

By Amy Payne : Posted in Enterprise and Free Markets, Featured

Looks like the NLRB is up to it’s same old dirty tricks.

The NLRB has begun to sue states whose citizens voted to protect themselves from coercion and intimidation by adding secret ballot guarantees to their state constitutions, as well as attempting to deny a major corporation from operating a facility in a right-to-work state, which would create thousands of new jobs.

Why is the board attacking right-to-work states in a down economy? Perhaps it is due to the overwhelming and unmistakable connection between this administration and Big Labor bosses whose political spending has propelled not just President Obama to his position, but consequently, their allies into appointed positions of influence within government, starting with agencies such as the NLRB.

And it’s not as if union bosses are shying away from bragging about their access and influence. Just a few weeks ago, the president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Richard Trumka said, “I’m at the White House a couple times a week – two or three times a week … I have conversations every day with someone in the White House or in the administration. Every day. And that includes weekends, by the way.”

Read the entire article at : Workforce Fairness Institute osted on May 10, 2011 by Fred Wszolek

Dear Concerned American,

You have an historic opportunity to break the cycle of tax-and-spend, political corruption and out of control budgets caused by Big Labor’s compulsory union power.

But you must strike now to make Congressmen and Senators choose between standing with the 80% of Americans who oppose forced unionism and Big Labor’s multi-billion dollar political machine.
You see, President Barack Obama and Big Labor allies in the Senate are now feverishly scheming to bury the National Right to Work Act without a vote.

Please sign the petition supporting the National Right to Work Act
This is an opportunity you and I cannot afford to miss.

Join Ryan Paul  & the National Right to Work Committee in supporting this by signing the petition. If we work together we can help to cut out the wasteful spending and the Corruption of the Big Unions.