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 taxpayers are on the hook for a total of $424 billion in state and local retirement debt.
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.
“Having floor votes on the National Right to Work Act will be a call-to-arms for hundreds of thousands of grass-roots opponents of forced unionism..."
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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.
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…
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“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
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. Supreme…
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.
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.”
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…
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‘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…
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…
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…
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…