High Court Seems Poised to Bar Public-Sector Forced Dues, Fees (Click here to download the February 2016 National Right to Work Newsletter) Nearly four decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a strained and constricted interpretation of the First Amendment…
Committee Goal: Persuade All Candidates to Oppose Forced Unionism (source: National Right to Work January 2016 Newsletter) As this Newsletter edition goes to press just a few weeks before the 2016 presidential caucuses and primaries get underway, National Right…
This year, Right to Work legislative staffers will confer with members of the Virginia state Senate and House of Delegates to discuss the best way to move forward legislation barring public employers from cutting deals to compensate public employees or third parties for union activities.
States Prohibit Forced Unionism, Get ‘More . . . Opportunities’ (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) According to the U.S. Labor Department, Indiana, which passed America’s 23rd Right to Work law in March 2012, and Michigan, which…
Capitol Hill Sponsorship Reached 127 Before Thanksgiving Recess (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) Thanks to relentless grass-roots activism by members of the National Right to Work Committee, the number of congressional cosponsors of the forced-dues repeal…
Major 2016 Fight Over Compulsory-Dues Repeal Looms in Frankfort (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) This fall Big Labor dipped heavily into its forced union dues-funded treasuries to wage extensive voter I.D. and get-out-the-vote drives to ensure…
Union Kingpins Now Blame Others For Benefit-Slashing Plan They Backed (source: National Right to Work October 2015 Newsletter) In the “lame duck” session of Congress called at the end of last year, lawmakers voted, without ever holding any public…
After 14(b) Showdown, Union-Label Politicians Were Shellacked Time and again over the years, when U.S. senators and congressmen have had to go on the record “for” or “against” Right to Work in a recorded floor vote,…
(Click here to download the January 2016 National Right to Work Newsletter) Presidential Hopefuls Feel Right to Work Heat — Committee Goal: Persuade All Candidates to Oppose Forced Unionism Pay Forced Dues to a Union Don…
Pretending to Be Right to Work Won’t Suffice; Does Denver Business Establishment Regret Big Labor Appeasement? (source: National Right to Work October 2015 Newsletter) Leaders of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce are publicly complaining that perceptions…
Obama NLRB Ignores 68-Year-Old Statutory Definition of ‘Employer’ (source: National Right to Work October 2015 Newsletter) In the latest of a series of bureaucratic rewrites of federal labor law that are clearly intended to…
(Click here to download the November-December 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) Kentucky Elects Pro-Right to Work Governor — Major 2016 Fight Over Compulsory-Dues Repeal Looms in Frankfort A Burden Too Great, Even For ‘Big Shoulders’…
Bill Would Corral Home-Based Child-Care Providers Into Unions (source: National Right to Work August 2015 Newsletter) Last year, in Harris v. Quinn, a case argued and won by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys, the U.S.
Consumers, Taxpayers Keep Getting Gouged in the Keystone State (source: National Right to Work August 2015 Newsletter) Today Pennsylvania is one of just two states in which the government retains monopolies on retail sales of both liquor and…
Lawmakers’ ‘Power of the Purse String’ Can Protect Right to Work (source: National Right to Work August 2015 Newsletter) As this Newsletter edition goes to press, it’s been nearly four months since President Barack Obama’s radical National Labor…
New Jersey NEA Chief Backs Trillion-Dollar Federal ‘Loan Program’ (source: National Right to Work September 2015 Newsletter) For decades, many government union chieftains across America have enjoyed what effectively amounts to the ability to “elect our own boss,”…
Americans in Their Working Years Are ‘Voting With Their Feet’ (source: National Right to Work September 2015 Newsletter) Because, as a group, they already have plenty…
Union Boss-Backed ‘Single Salary Schedule’ Hurts Many Educators (source: National Right to Work September 2015 Newsletter) A host of news stories published late this summer reported that public school districts across the U.S. are, as a front-page New…