When Ohio iron worker Walter Overstreet was working, no one told him his union retirement fund was in trouble. But in 2017, after he had retired, Mr. Overstreet and his wife endured a drastic cut in their benefits. Credit: Originally…
Joe Biden kicked off his 2020 campaign at a union hall owned by Teamsters Local Under a law backed by Mr. Biden in 2014, Local 249 retirees may soon see their pension benefits slashed by 30%. Credit: Stephanie…
‘War on 14(b)’ Joined by 44 D.C. Solons From Right to Work States Today 27 states have Right to Work laws on the books that prohibit the termination of employees for refusal to join or pay dues or fees to…
Mark Mix (left, pictured here with H.R.2571 lead sponsor Joe Wilson, in the latter’s Capitol Hill office): “Poll after poll shows nearly 80% of Americans who regularly vote in federal elections support the Right to Work principle.” Credit: NRTWC Compulsory-Dues…
Pennsylvania Politicians Gladly Accept Shady Union’s Largesse In January, Business Manager John Dougherty (AKA “Johnny Doc”) and five other officers and staff members of Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union were charged in the U.S.
Compulsory-Dues States Offer Fewer Opportunities For Advancement Federal data on the American workforce and employment and unemployment rates show that, even as our country’s economy experienced during the Obama presidency its most anemic recovery since the Great Depression, employer demand…
Presidential Hopefuls Vow to Kill Right to Work Pay Big Labor to Undercut Your ‘Economic Interests,’ or Be Fired! Kamala Harris, the junior U.S. senator from California and one of roughly 20 hopefuls for the Democrat Party’s 2020 presidential nomination,…
Tax Burdens Heavier in Forced-Dues States Lower Housing, Energy Costs Magnify Right to Work Tax Advantage On April 16, according to the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, “Tax Freedom Day” (TFD) 2019 finally arrived. The Tax Foundation’s entire analysis is…
‘If You Quit the Union, You’ll Lose Your Job’ Grocery Worker Whom Union Boss Threatened Files NLRB Complaint Early in the afternoon on Thursday, April 11, top bosses of five subsidiaries of the mammoth United Food & Commercial Workers union…
Big Labor Politicians Flaunt Supreme Court Washington Governor Poised to Sign Unconstitutional Legislation It’s now been roughly a year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided that government employers across the country may not deduct union dues or fees from employees’…
Monopolistic Unionism Hurts Autoworkers Union-Free Factories Help Make Tennessee an ‘Automotive Leader’ As this Newsletter edition goes to press in early May, United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union bosses are embroiled in their latest bid to corral employees at the Volkswagen…
Big Labor Spends How Much on Politics? Unlike business and other interest-group political spending, Big Labor’s “in-kind” expenditures on politics and lobbying are financed largely by conscripted money, often paid by workers who aren’t even union members and who…
Presidential Candidates Bow to Big Labor Bosses, Target Right To Work Freedom Mark Mix: Kamala Harris and many other presidential candidates are willing to promise to corral millions of Americans into unions against their will in exchange for the $2 billion union political machine’s support.
Payrolls up by 14.8% Since Right to Work Law Took Effect -- In late 2012, then-Gov. Rick Snyder signed Michigan Right to Work legislation. Since then, the Wolverine State’s percentage growth in factory jobs has outpaced the forced-dues state average by nearly five-to-one.
Trump NLRB Targets Forced Dues-Funded Lobbying In 1988, communications worker Harry Beck (now retired in Oregon) and his Right to Work attorneys scored a landmark High Court free-speech victory. But Big Labor has never genuinely accepted the Beck decision. Long-Awaited…
“The clear, unconstitutional aim of H.R.1 is to curtail the free speech of ordinary citizens,” charged National Right to Work Committee Vice President Greg Mourad. “The so-called ‘DISCLOSE Act’ provisions of H.R.1 would require nonprofit, citizen-action groups like the National Right to Work Committee to meet burdensome and stifling paperwork requirements simply in order to exercise basic First Amendment rights,” explained Mr. Mourad.
More Affordable Homes Just One of a Host of Right to Work Economic Advantages “Of course,” Mr. Leen added “housing authorizations are only one of manifold pieces of evidence pointing to higher living standards and faster economic growth in Right to Work states.”
‘The People Who Can Leave Are Leaving’ Even as thousands of working-age New Jerseyans flee to Right to Work states each year to escape onerous living costs and taxes, Big Labor Gov. Phil Murphy claims the state is on the…