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…
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,…
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…
Now that state-of-the-art manufacturing technology has been installed at Nokian’s new tire plant in Dayton, Tenn., the company’s team has begun making test tires. Commercial production will begin in early 2020. Credit: Erin O. Smith/Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free-Press ‘Tire Boom’…
Along with the other leading 2020 Democrat presidential hopefuls, Joe Biden believes all union bosses, including shady UAW chiefs, should have the power to extract forced fees from workers in all 50 states. Credit: Laura Ziegler, KCUR 89.3 (Kansas City,…
Thanks largely to aggressive grass-roots activism by members of the National Right to Work Committee, the number of congressional cosponsors of the forced-dues repeal legislation introduced in the U.S. House and Senate early this year continues to rise. S.525 and H.R.2571, respectively introduced early in the 2019-20 Congress by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), had a combined total of nearly 100 sponsors as this Newsletter went to press in early October. These essentially identical bills would not add a single word to federal labor law. Instead, they would simply repeal the current provisions in the federal code that authorize and promote the termination of employees for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union.
Big Labor is now demanding that, even in staunchly pro-Right to Work states like Virginia, politicians must support compulsory unionism to receive its backing. “There is no doubt that a rising share of elected officials in Virginia are dependent on the Big Labor machine to get in power and stay in power,” noted National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix.
During the first two years the Right to Work law signed by Gov. Matt Bevin was in effect, companies pledged to invest a total of roughly $14.5 billion in expansions and new facility locations throughout Kentucky. Credit: Kentucky Today/Tom Latek…
Mike DeWine voted for forced unionism as a U.S. senator in 1996. He has not changed his stripes. Credit: AP, via WLWT/NBC (Cincinnati) Ohio Officeholders Continue to Enforce Illegal Union Policies Jared Allen, an independent-minded resident of Franklin County, Ohio,…
According to Forbes magazine, the cash flow per union-free employee at Big River Steel is nine times as great as per union-encumbered employee at U.S. Steel. Not surprisingly, BRS jobs pay “impossibly well.” Credit: Big River Steel Right to Work…
As journalist Mike Antonucci recently pointed out, there are 14 states in which the number of working NEA union members fell by more than 30% between 2008-9 and 2017-18. All 14 are now Right to Work states. Teachers With Free…
The FBI’s August 28 raids on the home of UAW President Gary Jones (inset), and “five other homes or offices of former UAW officials around the country,” indicate “the federal government could now be targeting” Mr. Jones. Main photo credit:…
Legislation Would Rescind Big Labor Thugs’ ‘License to Extort’ In 1973, a divided High Court exempted violence against employees like truck driver James McCain (bashed in the head by a forced-unionism militant’s brick) from Hobbs Act prosecutions if the perpetrator…
For the first time in many years, legislation foisting forced financial support for unions as a condition of employment on workers was recently introduced in Virginia. And the pressure on Virginians’ Right to Work keeps mounting. Credit: Lou Erickson/Atlanta Journal…
“For decades, with the National Committee's leadership, Right to Work members have successfully opposed Big Labor schemes to repeal or gut the state statutes in North Carolina and Virginia that expressly prohibit any government-sector bargaining,” noted Mr. Kalb. “And according to a carefully documented 2018 study for the Cato Institute, states that expressly prohibit or at least do not statutorily authorize monopoly bargaining in K-12 public education typically do a better job of educating schoolchildren at a more reasonable cost to taxpayers.”
Union bosses like Lonnie Stephenson clearly swayed US Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to protect their apprenticeship fiefdom. Credit: www.ibew.org New Labor Department Head Can Green-Light Union-Free Training Shortly before resigning as U.S. labor secretary this summer amid rising fury over…
BMW factory in South Carolina continues to expand. A ‘Positive Effect on Employment, Output and Personal Income’ Across America, Right to Work states have long benefited from economic growth far superior to that of states in which millions of employees…
“Among the 17 states with the highest share of public employees under union monopoly control,” noted Mr. Mix, “state and local taxes combined consumed 11.0% of all personal income in 2016.