Bosses Don't Care About Taxpayers
Mark Mix wades into New Jersey to point out that the union bosses of the state care about one thing — padding their pockets with money from the taxpayers, come hell, high water or bankruptcy. Pointing out that…
Mark Mix wades into New Jersey to point out that the union bosses of the state care about one thing — padding their pockets with money from the taxpayers, come hell, high water or bankruptcy. Pointing out that…
Mark Mix wades into New Jersey to point out that the union bosses of the state care about one thing — padding their pockets with money from the taxpayers, come hell, high water or bankruptcy. Pointing out that…
Forced-Unionism Expansion Bill Would Kill Prospects For Millions (Source: March 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) According to a scientific poll conducted by the respected Research 2000 firm, 81% of Americans who regularly vote in statewide elections believe workers in unionized workplaces who don’t want a union should “have the right to bargain for themselves.” Unfortunately, for three-quarters of a century, federal labor law has actively promoted what Americans, according to the Research 2000 poll and many others, overwhelmingly oppose. The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the 1934 Railway Labor Act (RLA) amendments hand union officials the power to force millions of workers, union members and nonmembers alike, to accept a union as their “exclusive” (monopoly) bargaining agent in their dealings with their employer. Attack on Secret Ballot Only One Trick in Union Monopolists’ Playbook And this year Congress is very likely to bring up for floor votes legislation that would help Big Labor corral millions of additional workers into unions. Until recently, union strategists’ primary vehicle for expanding private-sector union monopoly bargaining in the current Congress was S.560/H.R.1409, the cynically mislabeled “Employee Free Choice Act.” This legislation is designed to help union bosses sharply increase the share of all workers who are under union monopoly control by effectively ending secret-ballot elections in union organizing campaigns.
Right-to-Work Laws: Liberty, Prosperity, and Quality of Life By Professor Richard Vedder (Condensed from the original 10-page Article appearing in the Cato Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter 2010). Produced by the Cato Institute. Richard Vedder is Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University.) The most essential ingredient embodied in the liberty championed by the classical liberal writers of the Enlightenment and beyond is individual choice and right of expression—the right of persons to say what they think, decide for themselves what groups that want to join, what religion that want to profess, what person they want to marry, what goods they want to buy or sell, and what persons they want to represent them where necessity requires collective decision making. One important economic dimension of individual liberty is the right to sell one’s labor services without attenuation—that is, without limits on the terms of the agreement (e.g., wage rates and hours of work), or who will represent the worker in reaching those terms. The eroding of employment liberty in the United States had begun before the 1930s … legislation in the early 1930s such as the Davis-Bacon Act and, to a lesser degree, the Norris-LaGuardia Act began to chip away at bargaining freedom, but it was the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act) that dramatically revolutionized employment contracts, severely restricting the freedom of workers and employers to reach individual bargaining arrangements.
Latest Data Show Exodus From Forced-Unionism States Continues (Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Without a doubt, much about the U.S. economy has changed since the real estate crash of 2007 and the extraordinary mortgage-loan crisis that soon followed in its…
The National Institute for Labor Relations Research reminds us that labor union exclusively bargained labor contracts have a deleterious effect on job prospects for younger workers. Fortunately, the Right to Work laws of 22 states help provide younger workers job…
The National Institute for Labor Relations Research reminds us that labor union exclusively bargained labor contracts have a deleterious effect on job prospects for younger workers. Fortunately, the Right to Work laws of 22 states help provide younger workers job…
Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama Benefit From Major New Investments (Source: February 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Although manufacturing employment nationwide continues to fall despite some signs of nascent recovery from the 2008-2009 recession, automotive manufacturing jobs appear already to be on the rise…
CPAC Conference: Saving Freedom: It’s About Jobs, Stupid! Moderator: Tim Phillips, Americans for Prosperity Rep. Eric Cantor (VA); Mark Mix, The National Right to Work; Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia Attorney General; Larry Eastland, PhD, LEA Capital Advisors CPAC —…