National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

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Date	Location	Title
12/23/05		Employee Advocate Urges Attorney General Spitzer Not to Allow Amnesty to TWU Union Officials for Illegal Strike
12/22/05		Gallo Wine Employee Asks California Supreme Court to Allow Counting of Employee Ballots on Farm Workers Union
12/21/05		Union Officials Face Federal Charges for Firing Local Workers Who Continued to Work During Strike
12/20/05		NYC Union Officials’ Scofflaw Actions Could Cause the Firing of 30,000 Striking Transit Workers
12/14/05		State Environmental Protection Employee Hits Union with Charges for Blocking His Promotion and Pay Raise
12/08/05		Worker Rights Advocate: “International Human Rights Day” a Smokescreen for More Coercive Union Organizing
12/07/05		Federal Government to Prosecute Teamsters Union Affiliate for Illegally Threatening to Have Amerigas Employees Fired
12/06/05		Monroe County Probation Officers Hit Unions with Federal Suit for Violating their Constitutional Rights
12/06/05		Federal Appellate Court Strikes Down Milwaukee County Ordinance Imposing Coercive Union Organizing
11/17/05		Nurse Slaps Union with Federal Charges for Threatening to Have Her Fired for Resisting Formal Union Membership
11/16/05		Saks Fifth Avenue Employee Hits Retail Union with Federal Charges for Threatening to Have Union Dissenters Fired
11/11/05		Federal Judge Blocks Union Dues Seizures From Nonunion Cincinnati Firefighters
11/07/05		Kaiser Permanente and SEIU Union Hit with Federal Charges for Forcing Unwanted Union on Employees
11/04/05		Statement on Decision of Federal Court to Not Issue a Preliminary Injunction While it Considers First Amendment Lawsuit
11/03/05		Federal Judge Blocks Unlawful Union Dues Seizures From State Government Employees
11/03/05		MEDIA ADVISORY:<br />Federal Court Considers Statewide Preliminary Injunction to Block Union Officials from Spending Forced Dues
11/01/05		Special Legal Notice to Employees Represented by the Machinists union (IAM) -- Reduce your dues by about 25%
11/01/05		Government Employees Sue CSEA Union Seeking Same Right to Reclaim Forced Dues Won by Teacher Union Nonmembers
10/25/05		Cash-Strapped CTA Union Rejects $250,000 Offer to Pay Costs of Notifying All Members of Basic Rights
10/20/05		Teachers Secure $250,000 in Funding for Statewide Mailing and Demand that CTA Union Notify Members of Rights
10/17/05		National Legal Foundation and State Senator McClintock Launch Statewide Radio Ad to Expose Misuse of Compulsory Union Dues
10/07/05		Federal Government to Prosecute Teamsters Union for Illegally Fining Workers After Grocery Strike
10/06/05		Senator Tom McClintock to Partner with Right to Work Foundation in Statewide Public Information Campaign to Inform Teachers of T
10/05/05		Court Will Not Immediately Block Use of Forced Union Dues on Anti-Schwarzenegger Electioneering While Lawsuit Proceeds
09/28/05		Educators Ask Court for Restraining Order Against Forced Union Dues Spent For Anti-Schwarzenegger Campaign
09/27/05		MEDIA ADVISORY:<BR />California Educators to Seek Restraining Order Against Forced Union Dues Spent For Anti-Schwarzenegger Camp
09/22/05		Golden State Educators File Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Unions to Block Funds for Anti-Schwarzenegger Electioneering
09/21/05		BellSouth and CWA Union Again Hit with Federal Charges for Forcing Non-union Workers to Wear Union Propaganda
09/21/05		MEDIA ADVISORY:<br />Golden State Educators To Announce Class-Action Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Unions for Forcing Them to Fun
09/19/05		Workers File Racketeering Lawsuit Against Union and Phone Book Company for Corrupt Payment Scheme
09/01/05		Right to Work Foundation Sparks Unprecedented DOJ Suit Against State of Ohio for Religious Discrimination Against Public Employe
08/31/05		Right to Work Experts Available to Comment on Union Issues Around Labor Day
08/18/05		Michigan Appellate Court Reverses Labor Commission’s Precedent-Setting Ruling Allowing Forced Unionization of Religious Schools
08/17/05		TSA Bureaucrats Reverse Bush Administration Policy On National Security Implications Of Airport Screener Unionization
08/12/05		UAW Union and Freightliner Hastily Sign Settlement Agreement After Announced Prosecution for Blocking Workers’ Wage Increase
08/12/05		Federal Labor Board Urged Not to Jeopardize National Security by Imposing Unionization on Airport Screeners
08/10/05		Federal Labor Board to Prosecute United Auto Workers Union for Blocking Freightliner Workers’ Wage Increase
08/05/05		Albuquerque City Workers Win $146,000 Settlement After Unlawful Seizures of Forced Union Fees
08/01/05		Appellate Court Upholds Teacher’s Suit Challenging Union Dues Spent on Politics
07/26/05		Employee Rights Advocate to Spend $2 Million This Year to Help Workers Out of Compulsory Unionism
07/25/05		Worker Rights Advocate Comments on SEIU Union Departure from AFL-CIO Labor Conglomerate
07/21/05		Grocery Union Hit with Federal Charges for Violating Safeway Workers’ Right Not to Subsidize Union Politics
07/19/05		Thomas Built Buses Workers Appeal Preliminary Ruling Barring Them from Objecting to Election Misconduct
07/07/05		Goshen Cequent Workers Seek New Election to Rid Workplace of Forced Union Dues
07/06/05		Thomas Built Buses Workers Challenge Tainted Union Election Result, Worker Advocate Files Motion to Intervene
06/29/05		Clothing Union Hit With Federal Charges for Repeatedly Abusing Local Joseph A. Bank Workers’ Rights
06/27/05		Chukchansi Gold Casino Hit With Federal Charges for Stifling Free Speech of Union Dissenters
06/21/05		Employee Rights Advocate Applauds Increased Enforcement of Bush’s Union Dues Executive Order
06/16/05		Maine State Employees Hit Union and Top State Officials with Federal Charges for Violating Constitutional Rights
06/01/05		Federal Appeals Court Upholds Authority of Secretary of Labor to Strengthen Union Financial Disclosure Laws
05/19/05		UFCW Union Local Faces Federal Prosecution For Denying Rights of Caregivers to Mentally Disabled
05/17/05		Teamsters Union Officials Face New Round of Charges for Stonewalling Anheuser Busch Workers
05/05/05		Appellate Court Accepts Workers’ Rights Group into Battle to Release Milwaukee Human Services Workers from Coercive Union Organi
04/26/05		National Worker Advocate Joins Appellate Court Battle to Release Milwaukee Human Services Workers From Coercive Union Organizing
04/22/05		Local Union Forced to Retract Its Unlawful Retaliatory Fine Demands Against Mount Clemens Nurses
04/15/05		Statement of National Right to Work Foundation on Preliminary Upholding of UAW Union “Neutrality Agreement” with Dana Corp.
04/13/05		Majority Leader DeLay’s Accusers Ignored Federal “Conflict of Interest” Disclosure Rules
04/01/05		Hotel Union Forced Out of Sheraton Four Points after Federal Labor Board Prosecutes Organizing Misconduct
03/31/05		Seattle-Area Hospital Employees Hit SEIU Union with Federal Class-Action Charges in Wake of Threats
03/31/05		Anchorage School Bus Drivers Again Vote Out Unwanted Teamsters Union
03/31/05		Federal Court Holds San Diego City Government Union Violated Employees’ Constitutional Rights
03/30/05		UPS Workers Force Teamsters Union Local to Refund Dues Unlawfully Seized From Their Paychecks
03/30/05		Los Angeles Home Care Providers to Receive Nearly $8 Million in Rebates of Illegally Seized Union Dues
03/29/05		Firefighters Win $45,000 Settlement for Violations of their Constitutional Rights by Union and Top City Officials
03/15/05		24-Hour Security Detail Hired to Protect Thomas Built Bus Worker’s Family Against UAW Union Reprisals
03/10/05		Thomas Built Workers Win New Settlement Forcing UAW Union and Freightliner to Cancel Unlawful Sweetheart Deal
03/02/05		National Employee Advocate Files Emergency Arguments to Halt Union Attack on California Public Servants’ Rights
02/28/05		National Workers’ Rights Group Joins Legal Battle to Block Imposition of Forced Unionism in Right to Work Arizona
02/25/05		UAW Union Forced to Abandon 1,100-Worker Thomas Built Bus Facility After Illegally Corralling Workers into Union
02/22/05		Recalcitrant Teamsters Union Faces New Federal Charges for Abuse of Anheuser Busch Workers
02/15/05		Connecticut CWA Union Forced to Cease Unlawful Retaliation Against Nonunion Worker
02/01/05		Unwanted UAW Union Ousted at St. Gobain Abrasives
01/26/05		Qwest Communications and CWA Union Drop Bid to Corral 1,000 Workers Nationwide into Unwanted Union Affiliation
01/26/05		Federal Labor Board to Prosecute Local Union for Unlawful Retaliation Against Nonunion Workers
01/26/05		California Labor Board Orders San Diego Government Union Officials to Stop Discrimination Against Non-Union Employees
01/19/05		Columbus Teamsters Union Hit with Federal Charges for Unlawful Negotiations
01/06/05		National Workers’ Rights Advocate Joins Legal Battle to Block Imposition of Forced Unionism in Right to Work Alabama
01/05/05		Federal Labor Board to Prosecute Ohio Union and Schwebel Baking for Unlawful Firing of Union-Dissenting Worker
01/05/05		Federal Appeals Court Overturns Mandate that Non-union Workers Can Be Fired for Refusal to Wear Union Propaganda
01/05/05		Steelworkers Union Forced to Leave Asheboro Goodyear Facility After Corralling Workers into Unwanted Unionization