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.
On July 26, shortly after conferring with Committee President Mark Mix, pro- Right to Work Congressman Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) introduced legislation to stop taxpayer-funded Big Labor lobbying and class warfare in the federal civil service. Right to Work Leader: Legislation…
2019 August Newsletter Link Big Labor State Politicians Pummel Taxpayers — Victims Include Vehicle Owners, Policyholders, Online Shoppers According to the nonpartisan,…
Thanks to the impact of the 27 current Right to Work laws, which protect roughly half of all American employees, the U.S. attracts many additional opportunity-creating business investments from around the world. Credit: Charles Brooks, Birmingham News (AL) adapted by…
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, knows full well that many employees…
Big Labor Nevada politicians clearly knew that, if they gave union boss Donald “D” Taylor what he wanted, their taxpaying constituents as well as independent-minded workers would suffer. But they ultimately caved in anyway. Credit: herelocal165.org Nevada Politicians Show They…
California teacher Raymond Pulliam helped organize a public school strike. He now sees it was a “winless fight.” Credit: Photo originally published by KQED radio (San Francisco), courtesy of Raymond Pulliam. Former Union Militant Admits Recent Strike Has Hurt Teachers…
Big Labor lawyers like Harvard man Ben Sachs are posed to take a case designed to nullify all state Right to Work laws to the Supreme Court, as soon as they decide the time is ripe. Credit: WJCT-TV (Jacksonville, Fla.)…
In June, Right to Work staff attorney Bill Messenger delivered congressional testimony against the so-called “PRO Act,” legislation that would greatly intensify federal labor law’s bias against individual employee rights. Big Labor Loudens Demands For New Privileges For Union Organizers…
Big Labor Gov. J.B. Pritzker (pictured with state teacher union czarina Kathi Griffin, a close political ally) is hiking taxes on all kinds of Illinoisans, including unionized workers whose forced dues and fees helped put him in office. Credit: J.B.
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…