August 18, 2012 Right to Work and Individual Rights By Sylvia Bokor The Right to Work clause came into existence in 1935, embedded in the Taft-Hartely Law.  It means that (a) employees may not be forced to join a union, that (b) employers need not hire only those who agree to join a union, and (c) that employers need not fire employees for failing to join a union or pay union dues. For over half a century, the clause was ignored.  Union bosses and their political allies forced employers to fire those who did not join a union or pay  [ Read More ]

  By ABBY ELLIN | ABC News Aug. 13, 2012 When Madeleine Otto was offered the chance to open a credit card at Stein Mart, a department store in Tequesta, Fla., and save $10 on her purchases, she jumped at the chance. She handed the cashier her driver’s license, and waited for approval. Except it didn’t happen. Otto’s credit application was denied. “The cashier said, ‘I’m sorry, we can’t give you a credit card because you’re too old,’” said Otto, who turns 100 on October 18. Otto was dumbfounded. She had never heard of anyone being refused credit because of  [ Read More ]

By ANNIE RAMOS Aug. 20, 2012 The father of a recent high-school graduate who has been denied a diploma because she said “hell” in her valedictorian speech accused her Oklahoma principal of bullying his daughter. “She became a senior and he constantly picked on her,” Kaitlin Nootbaar’s father, David, said of Prague High School principal David Smith. “I thought bullying wasn’t supposed to be allowed in school.” Neither Smith nor superintendent Rick Martin responded to messages asking them to comment, although Martin told KFOR-TV in a statement that, “This matter is confidential and we cannot publicly say anything about it.”  [ Read More ]