Payrolls up by 14.8% Since Right to Work Law Took Effect -- In late 2012, then-Gov. Rick Snyder signed Michigan Right to Work legislation. Since then, the Wolverine State’s percentage growth in factory jobs has outpaced the forced-dues state average by nearly five-to-one.
Trump NLRB Targets Forced Dues-Funded Lobbying In 1988, communications worker Harry Beck (now retired in Oregon) and his Right to Work attorneys scored a landmark High Court free-speech victory. But Big Labor has never genuinely accepted the Beck decision. Long-Awaited…
“The clear, unconstitutional aim of H.R.1 is to curtail the free speech of ordinary citizens,” charged National Right to Work Committee Vice President Greg Mourad. “The so-called ‘DISCLOSE Act’ provisions of H.R.1 would require nonprofit, citizen-action groups like the National Right to Work Committee to meet burdensome and stifling paperwork requirements simply in order to exercise basic First Amendment rights,” explained Mr. Mourad.
More Affordable Homes Just One of a Host of Right to Work Economic Advantages “Of course,” Mr. Leen added “housing authorizations are only one of manifold pieces of evidence pointing to higher living standards and faster economic growth in Right to Work states.”
‘The People Who Can Leave Are Leaving’ Even as thousands of working-age New Jerseyans flee to Right to Work states each year to escape onerous living costs and taxes, Big Labor Gov. Phil Murphy claims the state is on the…
Corruption Highlights Forced-Dues Injustice Even as the FBI investigates Norwood Jewell (pictured at right) for allegedly living the high life with money that was supposed to benefit workers, he is eligible to collect a pension derived from workers’ forced dues…
Let Transportation Workers Vote For ‘No Union’ Will Trump-appointed NMB Chair Kyle Fortson help make it less hard for employees to oust a union? Credit: Wikimedia Commons Bureaucrats Urged to Stop Coddling Airline, Railroad Union Dons As stacked as federal…
The Last Thing Ordinary Nevadans Need’ As pundit Steve Lopez admits, his fellow Golden Staters are fleeing in droves to Nevada so they can “live the middle class life that eludes them in California.” Why should Nevada emulate its Big…
Right to Work States Are Far More Affordable Thirteen of the 14 most affordable states have Right to Work laws on the books. But not one of the 14 least affordable states has one. (Shown above are the 10 most/least…
‘Stealing From [Union] Members . . . Is Wrong’ Last summer, even as the FBI was investigating her, now-indicted IBEW Local 98 Political Director Marita Crawford (left) schmoozed at a posh Philadelphia restaurant with soon-to-be U.S. House Speaker Nancy…
Right to Work’s Widening Compensation Advantage In 2017, employees in Right to Work states earned, on average, $1,756 more in cost of living-adjusted compensation than employees in forced-dues states. Since 2013, Right to Work’s real compensation advantage has more than…
Force Oregon Taxpayers to Bankroll Unions? Beaver State Right to Work supporters face an uphill battle trying to keep a bill imposing direct taxpayer funding of government unions from reaching the desk of Big Labor Gov. Kate Brown (pictured). Credit:…
Forced-Unionism Extremist Finally Off the NLRB Mark G. Pearce, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board gives his talk, Change and Challenges: The NLRB After 81 Years, in Myron Taylor Hall. Credit: Jason Koski/Cornell Marketing Group President Trump Requested Not…
Virginia Solons and ‘Tyrannical’ Compulsion Many Virginia working men and women believe, with good reason, that they are harmed by unionization, but Big Labor Delegate Lee Carter (right) thinks he knows better. Jefferson decried such politicians’ “impious presumption.” Credit…
Job-Creating Investments Pour Into Kentucky In 2018, a National Right to Work attorney went before the Kentucky Supreme Court to defend the state’s Right to Work law on behalf of factory employees William and Jacob Purvis (pictured) and one other…
Lawmakers Urged to Liberate Civil Servants Right to Work attorney Bruce Cameron: Under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, civil servants “cannot be forced to choose between their political autonomy and a voice and vote in their working conditions.” Credit: Regent…
Right to Work Helps West Virginia Rebound National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix: “The accelerated economic growth West Virginia is now experiencing is typical for states where Right to Work protections have recently been implemented.” Incomes Rising,…
Union Dons Defiantly Cling to Coercive Power Right to Work President Mark Mix: “Without so-called ‘exclusive representation’ power, Big Labor won’t be able to continue getting union dues deducted from any employee’s paycheck without having his or her affirmative, ongoing…