As of midnight the contract between AT & T and and the Communications Workers of America will have expired and that means Indiana’s new Right to Work will kick in for the hundred of employees who are union members here in the Hoosier State. Under RTW, a worker cannot be compelled to pay union fees [...]
A while back, I reported that labor was looking at filing a lawsuit to block Right to Work. Well, they did. In a news release put out late Wednesday afternoon, the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 filed suit in federal court claiming RTW violates for the state and federal constitutions. The are seeking [...]
The Associated Press is reporting this morning that Indiana Unions are making a desperate bid in shops and labor halls across the state to keep their members from bolting. I say, good, and I wish them luck. This stems from the passage of “right to work” which now makes it illegal for an employer to [...]
My good friend Jon Easter has posted at his blog, Indy Democrat, a list of his Super Bowl 2012 ‘Winners and Losers.” For the most part, I think Jon gets his list right. The city of Indianapolis and the Mannings are obvious winners, while New England is the obvious loser. However my Internet counterpart misses [...]
As Indiana lawmakers get ready to make Indiana the 23rd Right to Work state in the country, I wanted to put up two interviews that I conducted this week. I spoke with JR Gaylor of the Associated Builders and Contractors of Indiana and Brent Voorhies of the Central Indiana Labor Council. Both offer some interesting [...]
Usually when writing about political events things move at a relatively steady pace. An event occurs, we scribe about it, a subsequent event happens after that, we write about it and so on and so on. However, with the “right to work” debate over at the Indiana General Assembly, events have been moving so quickly [...]
I was already to scribble down a thought or two tonight about the latest on the walkout (TRO issued on fines, whether Dems will be back next week, Super Bowl protests, etc). And then this came across my laptop. Enjoy… Call it a threat or promise. A letter sent out by the IBEW #725 in [...]
Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma says if Democrats don’t show up for work at 9 a.m. Wednesday, he will start levying $1,000 a day fines. Democrats say they have no intention of paying. The fines are the result of a tumultuous afternoon at the Statehouse where Democrats refused to come back from an afternoon caucus [...]
I know that headline may seem like you’re reading something from the Bizzaro universe, but it is true. A comparison of two polls commissioned by the Indiana AFL-CIO within 6 weeks of each other shows the number of Hoosiers opposing “Right to Work” dropped from 47% to 36%. The Union released a poll Monday showing [...]
Don’t be surprised if you wake up on March 15th (the same days as the Ides of March, ironically) and find yourself in the 23rd “Right to Work” (RTW) state in the country. RTW for Indiana is inevitable. A full House vote is coming, and RTW will pass. It won’t be a sweeping majority, I [...]
