In their opening paragraph, the Rebecca Friedrichs et al petition for a writ of certiorari (request for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case) cite two recent National Right To Work Foundation U.S. Supreme Court victories to…
Union Honchos Collect Phony ‘Per Diems,’ Rip Off Firefighters (source: National Right To Work December 2015 Newsletter) In the October 18 edition of the New York Times, a story by labor reporter Noam Scheiber described the bizarre and unconscionable…
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…
Union Kingpins Now Blame Others For Benefit-Slashing Plan They Backed (source: National Right To Work October 2015 Newsletter) In the “lame duck” session of Congress called at the end of last year, lawmakers voted, without ever holding any public…
West Virginia’s working population has a negative growth rate exceeding 10% per year according to a November 2015 Fact Sheet by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR.org). It is not surprising since Big Labor Bosses negotiate monopoly…
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…
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…