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…
Teacher Union Chiefs Lower Educator Salaries Union bosses are culpable for the surge in public pension costs decried by education policy expert Chad Aldeman. Chart Bellwether Education Partners Big Labor Bosses Benefit, But ‘No Current or Future Teacher Wins’ Government…
n a 2014 open letter to Alabama teacher union officials, former state teacher union President Paul Hubbert admitted that the loss of automatic “payroll deduction” privileges was a key reason the union’s finances were deteriorating rapidly. Credit: AP file photo/…
If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ongoing efforts to prevent public employees from exercising their Janus rights fall short, his next move may well be to “tap taxpayers, rather than union members, to fund unions’ operations.” Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images…
In America today, millions of private employees are still being fleeced by bosses of unions they would never voluntarily join, even after the U.S. Supreme Court declared similar schemes in the public sector to be unconstitutional. High Court’s Janus Decision…
Presidential ‘Step in the Right Direction’ Limits Big Labor’s Privilege to Bill Taxpayers For Union Business National Right to Work leaders, who urged Donald Trump when he first took office to use his executive power to curtail government…
Breadwinners’ ‘Forced-Dues State Exodus’ Between 2007 and 2017, a Net Loss of 3.2 Million ‘Peak Earners’ Union propagandists often grossly understate, or altogether “forget” about, regional cost-of-living differences when they are debating living standards in Right to Work states vs.
The National Right to Work Act, legislation already introduced in the U.S. House (as H.R.785) and the U.S. Senate (as S.545), would prohibit the termination of private-sector employees covered by the NLRA or the RLA for mere refusal to join or bankroll a union they didn’t ask for, and don’t want.