Oklahoma state Rep.-elect Toni Hasenbeck is a seventh grade teacher and 2018 candidate who publicly disagreed with union chiefs on key issues like taxes and charter schools. She won in November by a 1,600-vote margin. Credit: Toni Hasenbeck campaign photo…
Committee President Mark Mix: The Survey 2018 program repeatedly gave anti-Right to Work candidates like Sens. Joe Donnelly and Heidi Heitkamp opportunities to back away from their support for forced unionism. They didn’t take them. Public Alerted About Pro-Forced Dues…
Incoming Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield (Levering) has publicly opposed Right to Work destruction. Credit: U.P. Politico/Wikimedia Commons Right to Work Consolidates Recent State Gains Bids to Bring Back Forced Dues Will Be ‘Categorically’ Rejected Thanks to recent progress made…
A new scholarly study shows convincingly that more extensive monopoly privileges and greater political clout for teacher union bosses result in worse educational outcomes at a higher cost to taxpayers. Credit: Henry Payne/Scripps Howard Union Monopolists Make Schools Less Effective…
As a consequence of Big Labor’s compulsory dues-financed lobbying successes, states that give more special privileges to public-sector union officials have routinely burdened their citizens with more debt as well as heavier taxation. Union Boss-Dominated, Knee-Deep in Debt Right to…
After the defeats of Big Labor incumbents Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly, Claire McCaskill, and Bill Nelson, pictured clockwise starting from the upper left, U.S. Senate support for forced-dues repeal will be at an all-time high this year. sources: Credit –…
According to Census data that have been available for years, poverty adjusted for geographic differences in housing costs is higher in forced-unionism states than in Right to Work states. Big Labor apologists simply ignore such data. Forced-Dues State Households Have…
More than five years ago, Gerawan employees who wanted to be union-free collected roughly 3,000 signatures from fellow employees to get UFW union bosses ousted from their workplaces. Later came the fight to get their votes counted. Credit: Pick Justice…
A new bus factory in Shepherdsville that is expected to employ more than 500 people by next year is just one example of the opportunity-creating business investments Right to Work Kentucky is attracting. Credit: WDRB-TV (Louisville, Ky.) Right to Work…
Earlier this year, national boilermakers union bigwigs awarded Big Labor Then-U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) for consistently doing their bidding. This fall, the citizens of Right to Work North Dakota will have their say. Credit: International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Union…
Forced-Unionism States’ ‘Brain Drain’ Continues Data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that, overall, states where forced union dues are permitted are failing to offer appealing economic opportunities to retain and attract college-educated, working-age adults. (credit: REUTERS/mario anzuoini) College-Educated…
How Forced-Dues Apologists Use ‘Doublethink’ In George Orwell’s 1984, “doublethink” is defined as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Forced-unionism apologists clearly possess this power. Credit: jackewilsonf.files.wordpress.com Part-Timers ‘Benefit’ as…
Right to Work ‘May as Well Be’ on the Ballot Silver State’s 66-Year Ban on Compulsory Union Dues in Jeopardy Union bosses are publicly boasting that their successful campaign to overturn Missouri’s 18-month-old Right to Work law this…
Union Bosses Charged For Brutal Church Assault “LEGITIMATE” VIOLENCE? Union thugs are in many cases exempt from federal persecution for extortion. Credit: Fight Back! News/Brad Sigal But Controversial 1973 High Court Ruling May Derail Prosecution More than two-and-a-half years after…
Going ‘All in’ For Compulsory Unionism Thumbing her nose at the majority of Wisconsin voters who support their state’s Right to Work law, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (left) openly favors a congressional scheme that would override all such laws.
Reward Radical Obama Appointee With Another Term? Extremist forced-unionism proponent Mark Pearce is dangerously close to getting another five-year NLRB term. Credit: U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Senate Leader Can Still End Mark Pearce’s Abusive NLRB Tenure In 2013, four independent-minded…
Janus, in which Right to Work staff attorney Bill Messenger (right, pictured here with Committee President Mark Mix) was the plaintiff’s lead counsel, established one key thing: Government-sector forced union fees are unconstitutional. Freedom of Association Only Partially Protected Government…
Excluding the four states that banned forced unionism between 2012 and 2016, the share of all automotive production occurring in Right to Work states rose from 42% in 2006 to 55% in 2016. South Carolina BMW Plant Employment Projected to…