Compulsory Unionism States Archives

February 20

Church burned to ground, Philadelphia ironworkers union face charges

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…

February 20

Taxpayer-funded Anti-Right To Work training

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…

February 14

If Things Don't Change, Within Six Years Chicago Will Have More Retired Cops Than Active Ones -- And Big Labor State Legislators Deserve Most of the Blame

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…

January 22

Union Lawyer: An Employee Who Resists Paying Forced Fees For Big Labor Monopoly Bargaining That Harms Him Is a 'Free Rider'

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…

January 22

Gov. Pat Quinn's SEIU Quid Quo Pro?

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.

January 20

'What We Are Talking About Is Unionizing Family Members, Parents in a Home'

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…

January 15

'Height of Arrogance' For a Politician to Tell a Worker That He Benefits From Unionization, Regardless of What the Worker Thinks

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…

January 13

Employee Compensation Rising Far More Rapidly in Midwestern Right to Work States Than in Missouri

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.

January 8

Labor Statutes Authorizing 'Compelled Speech and Association' Face a High Court Challenge

In yesterday’s edition of the Washington Examiner, an article by senior writer Sean Higgins (see the link below) focused on Harris v. Quinn, a case scheduled for oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on January 21. Higgins interviewed Pamela…