‘Coronavirus’ Aid Shouldn’t Reward Egregious Fiscal Mismanagement On April 14, Big Labor Democrat politicians in Illinois, led by Senate President Don Harmon, demanded that Congress approve a multi-billion-dollar federal taxpayer bailout of their state’s underwater government pension funds. Credit: Justin…
An internal union audit charges that IAFF czar Harold Schaitberger (center right) improperly awarded himself a pension to which he isn’t entitled. Schaitberger crony Joe Biden wants to hand him even more power! Credit: Associated Press Pro-Union Monopoly Labor…
In 2016, Committee members led the grassroots mobilization of freedom-loving citizens culminating in adoption of the West Virginia Right to Work law. And Committee Vice President Greg Mourad testified in favor of it. Credit for graphic: West Virginia House of…
With school buildings across America shuttered, are kids learning anything? Union bosses don’t want you to know. Credit: Adapted by: NRTWC Credit: Peter Aldohous/Buzz Feed News/via kff.org When Big Labor Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) shuttered K-12 public schools across California…
Gov. Ralph Northam has opted to foist monopolistic unionism on Virginia even as other elected officials are desperately rolling it back. Credit: Credit: Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch, via AP Governor Signs Legislation He Plainly Knows Will Hurt Virginia Today, more than…
Even in good economic times, government-sector monopoly unionism routinely results in greater debt burdens, higher taxes, and inferior pubic services. In bad times, the impact can be disastrous. Credit: Sean Delonas, City Journal Big Labor Politicians’ Rendezvous With Reality –…
Late this winter, and to the surprise of many seasoned political observers, former Vice President Joe Biden broke away from the unusually large 2020 pack of Democrat presidential hopefuls to become his party’s presumptive nominee. With an eye towards November,…
Now that Gov. Noem has signed S.B. 147 into law, union bosses will no longer be able to usurp the ability of hundreds of nonunion nonmembers in higher education to speak for themselves on key matters concerning their jobs. Credit:…
Politicians Fear Public Servants Will Assert Free-Speech Rights To protect the bosses of monopolistic government unions who have massively subsidized their political campaigns for years and years, Big Labor legislators in Connecticut are determined to slash the Janus decision’s…
Crimes Could Have Been Discovered Years Earlier Obama Labor Bureaucrats Helped UAW Kingpins Conceal Wrongdoing Obama appointees like Tom Perez were determined to avoided“overburdening” union bosses with disclosure requirements by rescissions and failure to perform audits. Predictably, labor-law violations,…
Mark Mix: “I’m confident that, if there is a choice between a strongly pro-Right to Work candidate and a forced-unionism candidate, the pro-Right to Work candidate is in a better position to gain support.” Credit: Gage Skidmore/ Wikimedia Commons Politicians…
If U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has her way, autoworkers in current Right to Work states like Michigan and Tennessee will be forced to bankroll the shady UAW union, or be fired.
Lawmakers in Denver Hear the Case for a State Right to Work Law Until recently, Robert Blackwell, an employee of the Pueblo, Colo.-based company Colorado Fire Sprinkler, was a victim of a scheme to force workers into union membership without…
The cataclysmic combination of unpayable public debts and a shrinking taxpayer base could before too long leave Illinois politicians with no way to avoid reining in Big Labor’s special legal privileges. Credit: Eric Allie, Illinois Policy Institute Forced-Unionism State Running…
Sixty-six Politicians From Right to Work States Join War on 14(b) Early this year, 224 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including 66 from Right to Work states, voted for legislation that would cut the heart out of every state Right to Work statute and constitutional provision that is currently on the books.
Members of the U.S. House sponsoring H.R.2571 in February after hearing from freedom-loving constituents mobilized by the Committee include Reps. James Comer (Ky.), left, Bradley Byrne (Ala.), center, and Chip Roy (Texas). Credit: WKBO-TV (Bowling Green, Ky.), Credit: Byrne –…
Big Labor has spent vast sums of money over the years on state-level efforts to wipe out Right to Work laws. But it has had no success over the past six-and-a-half decades in any state whose citizens have had the opportunity to experience, even for a short time, what prohibiting forced union dues and fees means in practice.
The Center on National Labor Policy’s clients must feel some justice has now been done because two Iron Workers union goons recently copped a plea deal. Local 395 president and head thug Thomas Williamson, Sr. organized and lead a vicious…