Beltway Democrats’ Pact With Crooked Union
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.
Compulsory Union Dues Challenged in Colorado
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…
Illinois: Rising Debt, Fleeing Taxpayers
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…
Right To Work State US Reps Foist Forced Unionism on Their Own Constituents
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.
Committee Members Push For Right to Work Votes
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 –…
House Approved Right to Work Destruction
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.
Indiana Beating: Union Officers Plea Guilty in Iron Workers "Old School" Melee Outside Church-run School
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…
Nancy Pelosi Shepherds Right To Work Destruction Thru U.S. House
“The politicians voting for the PRO Act in the face of public opposition to compulsory unionism that is now as overwhelming and passionate as it ever has been can be expected to face harsh electoral repercussions in 2020 and beyond,” predicted Mr. Mix
State Senator Saslaw trying to empower Big Labor political action at expense of Virginia citizens
Unfortunately, Virginia state Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw (D-Fairfax) and state House of Delegates Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Springfield) don’t think they should have to wait for the grave doubts about the constitutionality (Roanoke Times Opinion) In 2018, the U.S.
There is No Excuse for Forced Unionism
Award-Winning Teacher Could Likely Have Earned More Without a Union Professor Tang rejected Harvard law professor and former union lawyer Ben Sachs’s far-fetched assumption that the fact that some employees benefit economically from being subject to union monopoly control somehow implies that all employees benefit. To illustrate the point, Mr. Tang cited the case of Sean McComb, a “Baltimore English teacher who was named National Teacher of the Year in 2014” at the age of 30.
Big Labor Puppet Politicians Voted to Wipe Out State Right to Work Laws
Pelosi and the rest of Big Labor’s allies in Congress for passing H.R. 2474, the so-called “PRO Act,” which would wipe out all 27 state Right to Work laws, let Big Labor organize unions without a secret ballot vote, and impose a laundry list of other union boss power grabs. Mr. Mix stated, “This was a vote to let the union bosses put their hands back in workers’ pockets. Every member of Congress who voted for this abomination should be ashamed of themselves.” “80% of Americans agree it is just plain wrong to force workers to pay union dues or ‘fees’ just to get or keep a job. But these politicians shamelessly kowtowed to the demands of the union bosses who fund their campaigns with forced-dues dollars,” Mr. Mix continued. “Right to work supporters will remember and will hold Big Labor’s puppet politicians accountable.”
Trump Labor Board Makes Slow Progress
During the Obama years, Chairman Mark Pearce and his NLRB collaborators, including Kent Hirozawa and Nancy Schiffer (photo), waged war on the Right to Work. Undoing the damage is a monumental task. Credit: Schiffer/Hirozawa – Reuters/Larry Downing Obama Bureaucrats’ Pro-Forced…
Big Labor Politicians try To Undermine U.S. Supreme Court
‘Unprecedented Threat’ Against Supreme Court Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and other Big Labor politicians are outraged by the U.S. Supreme Court’s insistence that public employees’ First Amendment rights be respected by union bosses and government employers alike. Credit: YouTube Big…
Non-Union Big River Steel Employees Smelting Competitors Like U.S. Steel
Even as the number of steelworkers actively employed in forced-unionism states like Pennsylvania continues to decline, new high-paying metal production jobs are being created in Right to Work states like Arkansas. Credit: Gene J. Puska/AP If You Can’t Beat ’Em…
Like Leeches, Big Labor Bosses Seek More Paychecks to Forcibly Attach
Desperate to Take a Right to Work Scalp Silver State’s 68-Year Ban on Compulsory Union Dues in Jeopardy While Big Labor clearly remains by far the most powerful special-interest lobby in 21st Century American politics, the union hierarchy has suffered…
Dick Saslaw Pushing Forced Unionism on Virginians
Girded For Battle in Right to Work Virginia Virginia Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw, D-Fairfax, introduced legislation that would force employees to pay union dues or be fired and he calls it fair (SB 426). ‘Compulsory Unionism Is as Unpopular…
Right to Work Edge: More Money in Your Pocket
Compulsory Unionism Correlated With Lower Real Compensation Pro-Right to Work citizens emphatically believe that the individual employee should be free to choose which private organizations, if any, he or she financially supports, regardless of what the government, the business owner,…
President Trump Must Act to Defend U.S. Taxpayers, Cut the Bacon
An opportunity looms for President Trump to save taxpayers billions. Will he seize it? Credit: AP file photo Union Bosses Poised to Feed at New $287 Billion Federal Trough The U.S. Senate is expected soon to take up S.2302, a…