Right to Work

Data Point: When the Government isn’t collecting the check for unions, guess what happens…

April 7, 2013

It seems that the Public Sector union members decide to tell the union leadership “Check’s in the mail!”.  Imagine that – for all of the bluster of “Solidarity Forever!”, “Workers standing side by side!” and “Mighty, Mighty Union!”, as soon as these Union Members have the Freedom to decide “er, SHOULD I send that check [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin

March 17, 2013

“Real reform doesn’t happen in our nation’s capital; it happens in our statehouses all across this great country.”

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Are You a Union Member or a Lease?

February 6, 2013

After reading an article posted by Mike Antonucci yesterday at HotAir – included in it’s entirety below – I went to the NH Public Employee Labor Relations Board site to scan some NH collective bargaining agreements to learn whether this question should be asked here in NH.  In at least one case – the first [ Read more ]

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Unedited Union Attack Video

December 22, 2012

Steven Crowder answers the question of pretext to the union violence in Michigan with this unedited video and asks, why are their no union protesters video taping the goings-on while the Right to Work folks have multipe cameras recording activists on both sides. Maybe this is why?   Hot Air

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Michigan Right To Work…Voters Set The Stage

December 18, 2012

Lee Stranahan has a nice Graphic that gives us a view of how voters in Michigan sent a signal to their state representatives. In a state Obama won easily by 9 points, a ballot measure to make collective barging a constitutional right in that state failed by 15 points.  Stranhan suggests that the confluence of [ Read more ]

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Witness To Union Thuggery

December 14, 2012

Breitbart is posting a series of statements by people who observed or were objects of Union thuggery in Michigan.   I’ve posted one here on the front and several more on the jump.   They are each relatively short so take a few moments to watch them.  It is important to understand that this was not just [ Read more ]

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Footage from Inside AFP Tent In Michigan

December 14, 2012

This is footage shot from inside the AFP tent in Lansing as the tent was overrun by angry union protesters and began to come down.  It’s very shaky but here it is.

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Michigan AFP Tent Truthers?

December 13, 2012

You’ve heard by now, I hope, that the American’s for Prosperity (AFP) Tent in Lansing, Michigan (State Capital), was knocked down and overrun by angry Union protesters–while some activists remained trapped underneath?   (You can find Grok Coverage on that and more  here, here, here, and here.) AFP was there on the front lines to educate and [ Read more ]

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Tweet of the Day – Week – Ever? on Unions Vs Right to Work?

December 13, 2012

Fellow Grokster(ette?) Susan Olsen dropped this into our email this morning.  No, not ‘the royal ‘Our’ as in the royal ‘we,’ as in ‘We are not amused.’  I mean “Our” as in our Grok group email.  Anyway, this hits it out of the park on Michigan and Right to Work, and the Unions and Democrats [ Read more ]

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Join the UAW! Smoke Dope, Drink Beer While You Work!

December 12, 2012

 ”Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.” —Chris Lowe You can’t make this stuff up! “Whistle Smoke Dope, Drink Beer While you work!” Thirteen UAW auto workers have been reinstated with back pay after being fired when they were caught drinking and smoking dope on break. In my own slice [ Read more ]

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Michigan Union Thuggery – Give us what we want or we will hurt you!

December 11, 2012

Noted Conservative comedian Steven Crowder (whose videos we have posted here on the ‘Grok) paid a physical price simply for expressing a political  viewpoint.  Grokster Tim posted the video of the union thugs assaulting other peoples’ private property (the AFP tent) and Grokster Steve put up more updates. This one picture simply confirms what many [ Read more ]

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Update AFP -Michigan

December 11, 2012

Right to work Bills have passed both Houses of the Michigan State Legislature and the governor has already said he’d sign them into law. Earlier today Tim Condon updated us with the video of union protesters knocking down the Americans for Prosperity tent in Lansing, trapping some activists under it.  It’s sad but none of [ Read more ]

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Revolution Foundation

August 20, 2012

The Daily Caller ran a story this weekend about a book set to come out tomorrow, by Mallory Factor, called “Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob taxpayers Blind“. The premise of the book is that Obamacare was just a big ploy to unionize the estimated 16-17 million strong healthcare workforce (12.5% of US workers, [ Read more ]

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Labor Department Report Reveals Billions in Additional Union Politcal Activity

July 10, 2012

From 2006 to 2011 Unions in the United states spent $4.4 Billion dollars on political activity, $3.3 Billion more than typically advertised.  This astounding number comes from the Center for Responsive Politics which collected data from a set of obscure annual reports that Unions are required to file with the Department of Labor regarding detailed [ Read more ]

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Tyranny Plain and Simple – Public Sector Unions

July 5, 2012

“Every lazy nation is grave; for those who do not work regard themselves as sovereigns of those who work.” – Montesquieu For those who do not work regard themselves as sovereigns of those who do work.  This could not be more true. It also occurs to me that this also applies to public sector union [ Read more ]

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The unions have been defining “the Middle Class” as themselves – so what happens when members become UMINOs?

June 3, 2012

UMINOs – Union Members in Name Only (e.g., still belonging to the Union, but no longer paying the dues?) I saw this a couple of days ago and didn’t blog it then because I got distracted.  However, I think it is a very important turning point in the Union political battles and that it shows [ Read more ]

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National Right To Work Committee

May 24, 2012

We just happen to be talking about this in NH…

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Did The Teamsters Local 633 Just Offer to Bribe Our State Senators?

April 9, 2012

Updated and bumped – We have added a link to HB1677 hearing Audio. (..at 1:37:35, Holden is introduced; from 1:39:36-40:16, he makes the offer……….) From The NH Senate Right to Work Hearing Transcript. “Let me just be frank. The big, the elephant in the room here and I know it’s been said is the politics of [ Read more ]

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Where Diane Lacy, President of NH SEA / SEIU can’t even get simple facts right – and tips hand on the upcoming NH election cycle.

January 22, 2012

On WMUR “Closeup” this morning, replacement host James Pindell interviewed Diane Lacy, President of the NH State Employee Association and NH Rep. Will Infantine (R-Manchester) during his first segment).  Well, during the interview, Ms. Lacy shows that either she has no grasp of real facts or is just what many people believe: that the SEIU [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Event: NH Speaker Bill O’Brien Town Hall – Questions!

January 16, 2012

Quite a bit of the Town Hall was taken up by questions (some pre-written and some from the floor): On Voter ID Would Gov Lynch actually support on a Voter ID bill? How can the private sector assist in the cost of Education? How about Consolidates SAUs (School Administrative Units)? More on Voter Fraud School [ Read more ]

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Republican Defectors

November 30, 2011

Unfortunately for New Hampshire we’ll have to wait until next year to fix the problem of worker choice but in the mean time, we can enjoy the benefit of the roll call vote, posted on the Jump.

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Report from Statehouse – Right To Work blogging

November 30, 2011

Override vote: Roll call vote to override on HB474: 240:139 FAILED 11:57 Rep from Manchester. I’ve done a lot of research. We teach our kids good ethics and the importance of a job. We can’t say for sure if RTW will bring jobs, but we can say that passing it won’t kill any jobs, so [ Read more ]

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Repost: You Can’t Be A “Republican” And Vote Against Right To Work

November 30, 2011

Supporting forced unionization is the same as supporting mandatory campaign contributions to the Unions and the Democrat party. There is no conceivable way to separate the two. Unions are funded by dues. Democrats receive millions of dollars from unions to promote their agenda. And in some cases to promote it violently.

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Republican State Representatives and the Right-to-Work Vote

November 29, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 29, 2011 Contact: Carolyn McKinney, chairman, RLCNH, 603-769-4264, chair@rlcnh.org RLCNH will target Right to Work opponents for defeat A Right to Work law is fundamental to the freedom to associate CONCORD, N.H.—Because the right to freely associate is fundamental to liberty in a free market economy, the Republican Liberty Caucus of [ Read more ]

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Be Pro-Choice: Vote For The Right To Abort The Union.

November 29, 2011

If unions were abortions everyone would have the right to chose not to be party to it. Some liberal justice would have long ago ensconced that “right” into the US Constitution. And we would not be having this debate in New Hampshire. Workers could decide if they wanted to abort the union. But Democrats are hypocrites and choice shall not be permitted in the workplace. You will not, cannot be permitted to choose for yourself.

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