What has a Big Labor-run California government and U.S. President done for Big Labor’s image? Apparently, Obama and Big Labor’s California government union acolytes have hurt Big Labor’s image. Perhaps actions are indeed stronger than words. From the …
How far will compulsory unionism bullies go? From the Washington Free Beacon’s Bill McMorris: The group of self-described THUGS—an acronym for “Those Helpful Union Guys”—allegedly burned down the meetinghouse as part of…
Taxpayer-funded anti-Right to Work pro-forced unionism Big Labor training camp: The Washington State Labor Education and Research Center, which receives roughly $164,000 a year in state funds, partnered with the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, to hold 11 workshops…
Steve Malanga of the Manhattan Institute reported yesterday on a new study of state government pension funds in Illinois and Cook County released by the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accounting. (See the link below for Malanga’s informative summary.) The…
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Harris v. Quinn, a high-stakes labor-policy case in which the High Court is being directly urged, for the first time in more three decades, to overturn on First Amendment grounds state…
During his political career, [Illinois Governor] Quinn has taken nearly $5 million in campaign contributions from the service employees union. "A couple weeks after the executive order was signed and the union campaign began, there was Governor Quinn on TV with the SEIU banner behind him and the SEIU leadership behind him, and I couldn't help but think that this was an exchange, a deal," said Pam Harris.
Channel 7 in Chicago, an ABC-TV affiliate, aired a news story late last week regarding Harris v. Quinn, a U.S. Supreme Court case in which a National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorney is representing eight Illinois home care…
At a hearing Monday afternoon on a pending Right to Work measure in Missouri, National Right to Work Newsletter editor Stan Greer, speaking in his capacity as senior research associate for the Committee’s affiliated think tank, explained to legislators…
Big Labor St. Louis Post Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger is entitled to his own opinion about whether or not Missouri should adopt a Right to Work law prohibiting forced union dues and fees, but, to paraphrase the late U.S.