Even many state policymakers who acknowledge that the hate-the-boss class warfare waged by bosses of private sector unions has a detrimental impact on business investment and job creation discount the fact that government union-boss excesses typically cause the same problems.
A year ago last month, then-Gov. Mitch Daniels signed into law a measure making Indiana America’s 23rd Right to Work state. This came to pass only because thousands of determined Hoosier had labored for years, with the National Right to…
Commentator Michael Barone offers some good insights (see the first link below) regarding the latest payroll employment data from the U.S. Labor Department. As Barone points out, the data for Texas, America’s largest Right to Work state, since the Great…
An AP report out this morning (see the first link below) sounded the alarm about the fact that, for the first time ever, more than one in three counties across the U.S. are experiencing more deaths than births. As the…
Lorain, Ohio is finding that union-only project labor agreements (PLAs) do not live up to union bosses’ promises. PLAs costs taxpayers both in taxes and time, estimates range from 31% to 60% increased costs on construction projects. Richard Payerchin from…
Writing for the Orange County Register, Larry Sand, a retired teacher who taught in Los Angeles and NYC public schools for 28…
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…
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…
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…