WASHINGTON, DC - With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation, Ashley Silva filed a decertification petition with the NLRB, asking the federal agency to hold a vote among the employees of Union Kitchen’s five stores on whether the union should be ousted.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Current Issue Click here to download the March/April 2025 issue of Foundation Action. In this issue: Following Foundation Legal Arguments, Trump Fires Biden-Appointed NLRB Bureaucrats Hundreds of OH Workers Exit Teamsters as Union Bosses’ Amazon ‘Strike’ Stunt Flounders DOJ Attorney Battles Biden Admin Union Power Grab Over Justice Department St. Louis-Area Worker Battles Illegal Union […]| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
The following article is from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s bi-monthly Foundation Action Newsletter, March/April 2025 edition. To view other editions of Foundation Action or to sign up for a free subscription, click here.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Union bosses imposed illegal limitations on resigning union membership, told electrician he would be fined for starting new business unless he signed with the union Evansville, IN – Brian Head, an Evansville-based electrician, has vindicated his federal labor rights against the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 16 union. Head filed federal charges after IBEW union officials threatened him with a $1.29 million internal disciplinary fine even though he had validly r...| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Electric utility worker asks NLRB General Counsel to seek Board ruling against union policies that force nonmembers to fund union political spending BENSON, MN — Theresa Klassen, an employee of Agralite Electric Cooperative, is asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to expedite consideration of Big Labor schemes that force workers to pay dues for union political activities.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Graduate student group argues union bosses are illegally using bad faith bargaining to demand political concessions from Columbia administration NEW YORK, NY - The Graduate Students Against Discrimination and Suppression (GRADS), a group of graduate students at Columbia University, has just filed federal charges against officials of the Student Workers of Columbia, a union on campus affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW).| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
IMI – Irving Materials drivers already free of Teamsters officials’ so-called “representation” while Builders FirstSource workers await vote SCOTTSVILLE & LOUISVILLE, KY – Chris Smith, an employee of IMI Kentucky in Scottsville, KY, and Kenneth Moore, an employee of Builders FirstSource in Louisville, KY, each filed petitions seeking to end Teamsters Local 89 union officials’ “representation” at their respective workplaces. IMI workers already secured victory in their effort ...| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Brief emphasizes president’s authority under both Constitution and federal law to reduce scope of union monopoly bargaining control WASHINGTON, DC - The National Right to Work Foundation has filed an amicus brief at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals defending the Trump Administration’s efforts to reduce union bosses’ control within the federal government.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Workers’ first petition stalled by non-statutory NLRB ‘contract bar’ protecting unions’ control over workers HAMMOND, LA – Coty Hally, an employee of Wayne Sanderson Farms’ Hammond processing facility, has just filed a second petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a union “decertification” election to remove United Food and Commercial Workers Local 455 union officials from the workplace.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Foundation-assisted students challenged union-backed NLRB demand for private info NASHVILLE, TN – Union monopoly bargaining creates barriers to freedom for people across the country. It requires workers to accept self-motivated union bosses as their sole “voice” on issues in their workplace. But, in the private sector, it’s unfortunately the law of the land.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Nurses at Mayo Clinic's Mankato, Minnesota, branch sparked a wave of efforts across Minnesota to declare independence from union bosses.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
SBWU union bosses prevented worker-requested union removal vote by filing unverified charges, never demonstrated link to worker effort NISKAYUNA, NY - Starbucks barista Nadia Kuban is asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Washington, DC, to overturn federal policies that are preventing her colleagues from having a vote to remove unwanted Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) union officials from their workplace.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Charge: UFCW Local 7 once again violating federal law with fines against non-union employees who wouldn’t abide by a union boss-ordered strike Denver, CO (September 8, 2025) – Two King Soopers grocery workers have filed federal charges against the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 union in response to union officials illegally threatening to fine the workers, who chose to exercise their right to work during a strike.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
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AGUADILLA, PUERTO RICO - Eric Matos, an airplane technician at Lufthansa Technik’s facility at Rafael Hernandez International Airport, has secured an opportunity for him and roughly 200 of his colleagues to vote International Association of Machinists (IAM) union officials out of their workplace.| National Right to Work Foundation
CINCINNATI, OH - Rayalan Kent, a Michigan-based employee of asphalt paving company Rieth-Riley, has just filed an amicus brief with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case that could restore a substantial amount of power to workers in deciding whether they should be subject to union control.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
WASHINGTON, DC - The National Right to Work Foundation has submitted an amicus brief to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in Abbotsford Education Association v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
EVANSVILLE, IN - Brian Head, an Evansville-based electrician, has just filed federal charges against the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 16 union for threatening him with a $1.29 million fine after he exercised his right to resign from the union.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
A Right to Work law secures the right of employees to decide for themselves whether or not to join or financially support a union. However, employees who work in the railway or airline industries are not protected by a Right to Work law, and employees who work on a federal enclave may not be. Moreover, a Right to Work law does not prohibit limitations on when a dues deduction authorization card can be revoked. Workers should carefully read the fine print before signing such a card.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
MIAMI, FL - Amanda Marc, an employee of AT&T BellSouth Communications, has filed federal charges against the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union and its local affiliates, maintaining that CWA union officials are imposing illegal restrictions on her and her coworkers’ right to opt out of union dues payments.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, assists thousands of employees in about 200 cases nationwide per year.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation