Kentucky’s CBS affiliate WKYT television reports that KY Gov. Matt Bevin announced a new $1.3 billion aluminum mill is coming to Eastern Kentucky creating 550 permanent jobs and 1,000 construction jobs. The new Braidy Industries, Inc. factory will…
Chicago Buckling Under the Weight of Government-Union-Boss Abuses (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) A little over a century after it was memorialized by poet Carl Sandburg as the “City of the Big Shoulders,” Chicago is struggling…
Major 2016 Fight Over Compulsory-Dues Repeal Looms in Frankfort (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) This fall Big Labor dipped heavily into its forced union dues-funded treasuries to wage extensive voter I.D. and get-out-the-vote drives to ensure…
Consumers, Taxpayers Keep Getting Gouged in the Keystone State (source: National Right to Work August 2015 Newsletter) Today Pennsylvania is one of just two states in which the government retains monopolies on retail sales of both liquor and…
New Jersey NEA Chief Backs Trillion-Dollar Federal ‘Loan Program’ (source: National Right to Work September 2015 Newsletter) For decades, many government union chieftains across America have enjoyed what effectively amounts to the ability to “elect our own boss,”…
On September 24, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued the latest of a series of decisions finding that bosses of Local 8 of the International Longshore Workers Union and the ILWU itself commenced ordering illegal employee slowdowns at the…
Yesterday the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued its initial estimates for total 2014 private-sector, nonfarm employment in the 50 states. The BEA simultaneously released revised estimates for overall state personal income and an array of specific…
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…
Union Bosses’ Monopoly Power Drives Away Taxpayers of All Kinds (Source: July 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) According to the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, this year on average citizens of forced-unionism Connecticut are surrendering well…