Union-Free Public Educators Under Assault
(Click here to download the April 2014 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) Teacher Union Dons Eager to Hogtie Big Apple’s Charter…
April 2014 NRTWC Newsletter Now Available Online
(Click here to download the April 2014 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) In the April 2014 Edition: Big Labor Loses in Florida Special Election — Right to Work Poised…
Big Apple's Teacher Union Bosses Eager to Hogtie Their Union-Free Competitors
New York City’s costly, Big Labor-controlled district public schools have for years done a very poor job of educating the children of Gotham’s less affluent families. A small silver lining has been the growing, but still relatively tiny, system of…
Union Independent Donations Not Independent
UFT Paid $370,000 to Ghost Consultants Written By: Mike Antonucci – Oct• 03•13 Halloween approaches, so perhaps it’s not surprising to find the United Federation of Teachers inhabiting the spirit world. According to Crain’s, the New York City teachers’ union…
Rats Infiltrate Union Operated Restaurant
Even multiple taxpayer-funded grants could not keep this forced-dues collective Utopia alive: Union organizers are hungry to add cooks, waiters and busboys to a shrinking roster of union members. The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100 came…
Unions & Cuomo Protect State Workers Found Guilty of Abusing Disabled Patients
Kate Andrews details how New York state labor laws make it impossible to prosecute abusive state workers: The New York Times released a follow-up report, revealing that only 25% of NY state home-workers found guilty of abusing disabled and mentally ill patients…
Unions Heal Thyself
Nicole Gelinas looks at how big labor monopoly power has bankrupted cities and the end result is their retirees are getting the shaft because of it. Imagine you’re a retiree with chronic health problems on a fixed income, but…
A house of cards, this idea
Crain’s New York takes the New York City Council to task for wasting taxpayer money in order to help the union bosses:…
Monopolistic Teacher Unionism Is 'Strangling Policies That Could Help Student Achievement'
In a post for the National Review’s Corner blog this morning (see the link below), Andrew Stiles discusses a new paper by Sally Lovejoy and Chad Miller of the American Action Forum that analyzes the impact on educational outcomes of…