Obama NLRB Ignores 68-Year-Old Statutory Definition of ‘Employer’ (source: National Right to Work October 2015 Newsletter) In the latest of a series of bureaucratic rewrites of federal labor law that are clearly intended to…
Lawmakers’ ‘Power of the Purse String’ Can Protect Right to Work (source: National Right to Work August 2015 Newsletter) As this Newsletter edition goes to press, it’s been nearly four months since President Barack Obama’s radical National Labor…
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s solicitor attacked Gov. Bruce Rauner for filing a brief in support of the plaintiffs in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association U.S. Supreme Court case. Attorney General Lisa Madigan received over $2 million in direct political donations…
In Reality, NEA Union Bosses Oppose Higher Pay For Many Teachers (source: National Right to Work August 2015 Newsletter) At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up in its next term Friedrichs…
National Right to Work Foundation files brief in Friedrichs arguing that compulsory union dues for civil servants are incompatible with free speech Washington, DC (September 14, 2015) – National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys filed an amicus curiae…
Clear Contrast Between Gubernatorial Nominees on Forced Unionism (Source: July 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) After a hard-fought primary contest in which 93% of the votes went to candidates who had pledged…
Lawsuit: Racketeering Bilked Taxpayers of ‘More Than $1 Million’ (Click here to download the June 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) Early this year, a federal jury in Pennsylvania convicted Joseph Dougherty, the former boss of Philadelphia-based Local…
System Puts Workers ‘Under Powerful Compulsion to Join’ the Union (Source: May 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court alarmed government union bosses across the country…
Executive Order Challenges ‘Unconstitutional’ Forced Union Fees (Click here to download the March 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) Last summer, thanks to the persistence and clear thinking of National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys and eight Illinois…