UAW's International Chattanooga Campaign
Wall Street Journal notes the dangers of the “card check” unionization system in an editorial about the UAW’s efforts to trick workers in a VW plant in Tennessee to join the union.
Why is Detroit Bankrupt?
A stunning new actuary report on Detroit’s pension implosion has revealed that Detroit trustees doled out nearly $2 billion in undisclosed holiday “bonuses” to Detroit government workers and retirees negotiated by the city and its unions, Breitbart reports.
This Week's NRTW Supreme Court Brief Regarding Card-Check
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Attorney William Messenger filed the Foundation’s brief in the UNITE HERE LOCAL 355 v. MARTIN MULHALL Supreme Court case that is set to end card-check forced unionism as we know it. We have made…
Time To End Legalized Union Violence
The Free Beacon reports on our efforts to highlight a loophole in federal law that allows union activists and militants to use violence without fear of prosecution: Labor watchdogs held a candlelight vigil outside AFL-CIO headquarters…
Sound the Liberty Bell, Make Pennsylvania Right To Work
The CEO of the oldest brewery in America (and maker of Obama’s “favorite beer”)believes his state — Pennsylvania — should free itself from the shackles of forced unionism. Dick Yuengling said he would like to see lawmakers in Harrisburg approve…
Unions & Cuomo Protect State Workers Found Guilty of Abusing Disabled Patients
Kate Andrews details how New York state labor laws make it impossible to prosecute abusive state workers: The New York Times released a follow-up report, revealing that only 25% of NY state home-workers found guilty of abusing disabled and mentally ill patients…
AFL-CIO Targets Union Dues Money for More Campaign Spending
Politico reports that the union bosses at the AFL-CIO will be spending vast amounts of union dues money to on gubernatorial elections in the coming election cycle: AFL-CIO bosses plan to throw their “political weight most heavily into a half-dozen…
AFL-CIO Targets MI Gov. Rick Snyder
The AFL-CIO is putting a target on Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and five other Republican governors in the 2014 election, WHTC reports: The union’s Political Director Michael Podhorzer told the audience at a breakfast in Washington, D.C. Tuesday the organization will go after…
It's Not Just Detroit; it's Philly, Chicago, New York...
The Washington Examiner finds there are 19 cities with larger government worker to population ratios than Detroit where city workers accounted for the largest employer: Detroit declared bankruptcy due in no small part to $3 billion in unfunded public employee…