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Yes, Virginia, “union thug” IS the correct term

Monday, June 17th, 2013

“I’m saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you’re likely to get burned.”

Long before becoming the top union boss at the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka’s reign as president of the United Mineworkers union was marked by intimidation against independent-minded workers who dared to defy the union hierarchy.

The contempt on display in Trumka’s fiery rhetoric for those workers who refuse to toe the union-boss line remains widespread throughout Big La...

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Congress admitted in 1947 that forced union dues violate worker rights

Friday, May 17th, 2013

. . . but they didn’t do much of anything about it.

Today, we can:

Truck driver illegally forced to pay for union political activity

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

When company officials gave West Virginia truck driver Jeff Richmond an ultimatum, he knew something wasn’t right. So he stood by his convictions.

“Management took me home because I told them I wouldn’t sign the voluntary check off authorization for the [union's Political Action Committees] for moral reasons,” explained Richmond.

I didn’t feel that it was right for them to terminate someone because they wouldn’t sign a ‘voluntary’ check off....

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Tens of thousands of acts of union violence . . .

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

. . . but U.S. law protects union bosses from being held responsible.

This is not equal protection under the law. This is not how America is supposed to be.

The National Right to Work Committee even has a petition: REVOKE BIG LABOR’S LICENSE TO KILL