Pennsylvania labor-law provisions that force local elected officials to recognize a handful of government union bosses as public employees’ monopoly-bargaining agents are the primary reason why politicians like Scranton Mayor Bill Courtright routinely cede “control of the government to unions.”…
As a consequence of a public-safety workforce that is “hamstrung by [Big Labor] work rules,” security practices at the nation’s “highest-value terrorist target,” the World Trade Center complex, have long been and remain today “profoundly deficient at every level, in…
DATE: April 28, 2016 RE: Air Traffic Control Union Empowerment Act (H.R. 4441) POSITION: Oppose…
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…
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…
Households in High-Cost Big Labor Strongholds ‘Get Socked Twice’ (Source: May 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) In late March, the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation announced its estimate that “Tax…
Government Union Bigwigs Stoke Politicians’ Fiscal Imprudence (Click here to download the March 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) A recent report by State Budget Solutions (SBS) adds to the evidence that government union officials empowered with monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues…
It’s all political when it comes to Government Union Dues…. From The News-Gazette: Taking on union power What’s wrong with asking the courts to clarify the law? Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner said he’d shake things up. Rauner’s executive order relieves state…
Illinois still trying to fire corrections official with a troubled work history, criminal convictions and a history of street gang affiliations Forced-dues political power and public sector monopoly-bargaining create these types of irresponsible situations: Tom Shaer, spokesman for the Illinois Department…