Category Archives: Free Enterprise Alliance
Don’t We All Have A Right To Work?
Right now, legislators in Indiana are fighting over an issue that should be so simple: should the state really let union bosses force employees to pay for “representation” just to keep their job? Of course not! So we weighed in over at The American Thinker to explain the issue and our guy concludes, simply: “To [...]
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Labor-relations agency goes rogue
In an op-ed running over at the Washington Times today, Geoffrey Burr, chairman of the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, writes of the troubling moves at the National Labor Relations Board and attempts to rig the rules in favor of Big Labor: Recently, the lone Republican NLRB member, Brian Hayes, took an unusual step of [...]
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Take Action Now To Halt The Assault From The NLRB!
UPDATE: See our article at Townhall.com explaining why your action TODAY is so important: Many of us spent this weekend with families and focused on the thanks in our hearts for our blessings, but once again Obama’s job-killing National Labor Relations Board is giving us plenty to remain un-thankful about. For those not entirely familiar [...]
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The Green Jobs Myth
Those of us old enough remember a time when Greens and Blue Collars didn’t play well together, largely because environmentalists often demanded economically damaging policies that would put manufacturing and construction jobs at risk (think: spotted owl and timber workers). Then came a stroke of political genius — GREEN JOBS! Political genius, yes, because it [...]
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HTA, In Big Bright Letters!
The Halt The Assault message is gaining traction! Check out this billboard in Illinois:
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A Little History Lesson
Over at The American Thinker, Brett McMahon compares the brave Revolutionary leaders to today’s “Occupy Wall Street” protesters and concludes, “Obviously, past is not prologue, but it’s worth remembering that over 230 years ago people died for a positive vision of freedom-not to sit in and beg for more handouts.” And he even has a [...]
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HTA: “Regulation Gone Wild”
Halt The Assault continues to spread the free enterprise message to new corners of the Internet, with our latest article, “Regulation Gone Wild: The heavy hand of government is destroying jobs.” Citing as an example a new, mean, anti-employer attitude from OSHA, HTA spokesman Brett McMahon writes: Think of the impact as the difference between [...]
Shots Fired: The Union Attack On Business
Following up on the disturbing news that a Midwestern business owner was shot at due to his company’s union-free status, Halt The Assault spokesman Brett McMahon adds some analysis at The American Thinker about the shocking silence from union bosses. Tying this most recent story to a threatening email that we have also highlighted, the [...]
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The Disgusting, Literal Assault on A Non-Union Employer
LaborUnionReport.com has this breaking story: Until Wednesday, the worst of the union attacks on King and his business came in the mid-eighties during the UAW strike at AP Parts. During a lull during the lengthy strike, King’s business was picketed by more than 50 IBEW picketers. This was at a time when he only had [...]
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