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…
Corruption Highlights Forced-Dues Injustice Even as the FBI investigates Norwood Jewell (pictured at right) for allegedly living the high life with money that was supposed to benefit workers, he is eligible to collect a pension derived from workers’ forced dues…
Let Transportation Workers Vote For ‘No Union’ Will Trump-appointed NMB Chair Kyle Fortson help make it less hard for employees to oust a union? Credit: Wikimedia Commons Bureaucrats Urged to Stop Coddling Airline, Railroad Union Dons As stacked as federal…
The Last Thing Ordinary Nevadans Need’ As pundit Steve Lopez admits, his fellow Golden Staters are fleeing in droves to Nevada so they can “live the middle class life that eludes them in California.” Why should Nevada emulate its Big…
Right to Work States Are Far More Affordable Thirteen of the 14 most affordable states have Right to Work laws on the books. But not one of the 14 least affordable states has one. (Shown above are the 10 most/least…
‘Stealing From [Union] Members . . . Is Wrong’ Last summer, even as the FBI was investigating her, now-indicted IBEW Local 98 Political Director Marita Crawford (left) schmoozed at a posh Philadelphia restaurant with soon-to-be U.S. House Speaker Nancy…
Right to Work’s Widening Compensation Advantage In 2017, employees in Right to Work states earned, on average, $1,756 more in cost of living-adjusted compensation than employees in forced-dues states. Since 2013, Right to Work’s real compensation advantage has more than…
Force Oregon Taxpayers to Bankroll Unions? Beaver State Right to Work supporters face an uphill battle trying to keep a bill imposing direct taxpayer funding of government unions from reaching the desk of Big Labor Gov. Kate Brown (pictured). Credit:…