Yesterday U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes rejected government union lawyers’ claims that Detroit, despite its enormous and manifestly unsustainable debt burden, isn’t really bankrupt. As Bill McMorris reported for the Washington Free Beacon in the news account linked below: .
For years and years, the private sector in Scranton, Pa., has been shrinking. That means, among other things, that the mayor and other elected officials desperately need to get city taxpayers’ sky-high costs for municipal employee compensation under control. Scranton’s…
In early 2011, the Wisconsin Legislature adopted and Gov. Scott Walker signed into law Act 10, a wide-ranging budget reform measure that included provisions protecting most state and local public-sector employees from being fired for refusal to pay union dues…
National Right to Work President Mark Mix provides insight on current battlefronts against compulsory unionism. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has two cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. NRTW’s case …
The news is full of stories where union monopoly bargaining power over schools blocks, delays and overrides disciplinary actions by school management and school boards but Governor Brown takes it to a “new” level. Again, this action exposes…
Communist Steelworker is the spokesman for a bus drives strike. Seems like the rabid rabble-rouser is a traveling troublemaker.
Talking about perversion of individual employees’ rights by state compelled unionism. Hundreds of farm workers in Fresno County, California, have walked away from their jobs at Gerawan Farming as a protest against the United Farm Workers Union. …
German union rep. Bernd Osterloh says Tennessee VW employees should be allowed to have a secret ballot vote. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is actively fighting to protect the employees at the VW Chattanooga plant. More about Osterloh’s comments from the…
Over 500 Volkswagen employees are fighting back against an effort to unionize their plant in Tennessee. 563 hourly employees signed petitions against unionization. “There are no duplicates,” said plant worker Mike Burton. “I made sure it was a scrubbed list. They’re…