Obama Touts Right to Work?
Well, not directly, but the president did go to Right to Work North Carolina to tout the growth in manufacturing in the Tar Heel state. From Henry Payne of the Detroit News: On his…
U.S. House Committee Hearing Exposes Weakness of Obama NLRB Appointee Argument
A hearing worth watching. The U.S. House of Representative’s Education and Workforce hearing room was the scene of the decimation Obama’s argument for making unconstitutional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) appointments and the complete discrediting of the…
NLRB Pays Union Officials $768,465 to work for the Union
In many cases, “official time” is no more than taxpayer-funded no-show jobs. When union officials are on official time, they are without any direction or control from the the federal government even though taxpayers are paying. Many federal employees who have official time status work all year…
'The Action of the Union in the Arbitration Will Have the Effect of . . . Causing Harm to Its Own Members'
Blogging for National Review Online late last week (see the link below), the Heritage Foundation’s James Sherk furnished an especially outrageous example of how Big Labor often wields its government-granted monopoly bargaining power in ways that hurt employees economically. Big…
Teacher Union Boss -They “were ready to kill”
The boss of the Chicago Teacher's Union talked about killing rich people and her audience got a big chuckle: The Chicago Teachers Union is not just about looking out for its members’ interests. The union wants to fundamentally changeAmerica, too. That shift occurred when the radical Karen Lewis was elected as its president two years ago. She’s best known for mocking U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s lisp and for taking on – and defeating – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the district’s first teachers’ strike in a generation. CTU leaders have been on a victory lap of sorts since the September strike, with union activists seeing themselves as protectors of union power during a time of membership decline and education reform at the state and local level. They’ve also taken on the role of social activities, fighting for causes like the Occupy movement and gay marriage, which have nothing to do with education. Some union leaders have called for violence and other radical tactics to achieve social goals.
To Big Labor's Dismay, Michigan Getting Right To Work Creating New Jobs
Michigan’s passage of a Right to Work law is giving state officials a critical advantage in seeking companies to wanting to re-locate — and pro-forced unionism hacks …
United Van Lines Study Shows Americans Continued to Flee Forced-Unionism States Throughout 2012
As a post on the Red State blog yesterday (see the link below) has already pointed out, a just-released United Van Lines (UVL) study tracking “which states the company’s customers moved to and from” during the course of 2012 shows…
Right To Work States Continue to Pull U.S. Economy Above Water
Just read Louisiana's Governor Bobby Jindal's recent letter: Dear Friends - The last couple weeks have been chock full of major economic development wins for Louisiana. In Central Louisiana, we announced that UPS Midstream Services Inc. is investing more than $3.9 million to construct a new full-service machine facility. ... In Northeast Louisiana, Drax Biomass International announced that the company is building a new wood pellet facility in Bastrop and a storage-and-shipping facility in Baton Rouge. As NBC33 reported, the two projects will combine to create ... new jobs for Louisiana. LocalMed, a digital healthcare startup and homegrown Louisiana company, will create new jobs in Baton Rouge. These announcements come on the heels of perhaps some of the biggest economic development news Louisiana has ever had.
Right To Work returns Michigan to the people
Nolan Finley nfinley@detnews.com Union chants echoed off the Capitol dome before the Republican-controlled state Legislature's courageous vote on the right-to-work bill: "Whose house?" "Our house!" Not anymore. The Capitol now belongs to all the people of Michigan. For 60 years or so, labor unions have dominated policymaking and politics in this state. Even as their membership dwindled to a sliver of the work force — 17 percent — their stifling influence over Lansing kept Michigan from adopting the common-sense reforms that would have made it more competitive for jobs and investment. Competitiveness is what Gov. Rick Snyder is all about. His decision to lead the right-to-work push stemmed from his desire to give Michigan every advantage possible in competing with other states for economic development. It was not, as his critics charge, a capitulation to big money GOP interests or a hypocritical betrayal of his commitment to relentless positive action.