January 2020 National Right To Work Newsletter
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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…
Tennessee's Economy is Burning Rubber
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’…
Presidential Hopefuls Laud Shady Union Bosses
At a struck GM plant in Kansas City, Kan., Mr. Biden went so far as to proclaim: “I’m Joe Biden and I am UAW.”
Support For Ending Forced-Dues Escalating
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.
Virginia Democrat Politicians Embrace Big Labor
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.
November/December 2019 National Right To Work Newsletter Summary
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Big Labor Targets Pro-Right to Work Governor
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…
Workers Sue Forced Unionism-Appeasing Governor
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,…
Steel Production’s ‘Future’ Resides in Arkansas
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…
Right to Work’s Spread Scares NEA Union Dons
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…
‘Federal Racketeering Case Against UAW’ Looms?
A Detroit News story went so far as to suggest that a “federal racketeering case against” the UAW union itself is increasingly likely.
Lead a Church Assault, Get Off Scot-Free?
Union officials are seemingly prosecutable under the Hobbs Act, which prohibits the use of extortionate threats and violence.
Virginians’ Right to Work in Peril
Virginians’ Right to Work could be in grave peril in 2020, depending on the outcome of this fall’s elections.
October 2019 National Right To Work Newsletter Summary
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Resolved: Children Aren’t NEA Dons’ ‘Priority’
“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 Dons Retain Vise Grip Over Apprentices
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…