Even as testimony continues at a trial 400 miles to the northwest in Buffalo, N.Y., regarding a decade-long pattern of violence, threats and vandalism allegedly perpetrated by officers of an International Union of Operating Engineers local and their agents, this…
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…
Activists Push For Recorded Votes on State Right to Work Measures (Click here to download the National Right to Work Committee’s November-December 2013 Newsletter) Even union bosses and their apologists sometimes grudgingly admit that long-term private-sector job growth in…
State labor law and the courts in Pennsylvania are heavily biased in favor of government union bosses, but they have yet to furnish police and fire union officials in Scranton, located in the northeastern part of the Keystone State, with…
For years and years, the private sector in Scranton, Pa., has been shrinking. That means, among other things, that the mayor and other elected officials desperately need to get city taxpayers’ sky-high costs for municipal employee compensation under control. Scranton’s…
Labor union officials using forced-dues to fund “push polls” against political targets is not unusual, but against an eighth-grade student’s dad illustrates how far this NEA official is willing to go to intimidate and bully. More often than not, union…
Thousands of farm workers in the Central Valley of California object to unionization under a collective bargaining agreement with the United Farm Workers. But they’re being forced into the agreement anyway.
A recent report by the Commonwealth Foundation illustrates how the state’s teachers unions and other public employee unions amass millions of dollars through mandatory dues deductions, and how the unions spent much of the money on political causes their members may or may…
Right to Work will bring much needed jobs to Pennsylvania, Jack Markowitz correctly argues in the Pittsburgh Tribune: Lacking the best ammunition, Pennsylvania is no sharpshooter at bagging new jobs, Matthew Wagner will tell you. “We offer tax breaks,” he…