Forced Dues-Seizing Union Dons ‘Disconnected’ From Rank and File Thanks to years of careful preparation and hard work by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys and their employee clients, there is a strong possibility that, within the…
Illinois child support specialist and plaintiff Mark Janus: “The union voice is not my voice.” (pictured: Mark Janus with his attorney William Messenger from the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation after Messenger’s Oral Arguments on behalf of…
Forced-unionism advocate and soon-to-retire Gov. Dannel Malloy rammed through two huge tax increases. But revenue from personal income, sales, and corporate taxes has flatlined in Connecticut. Credit: Jason Reed/Reuters Pro-Union Monopoly Policies Plunging Nutmeg State Into Deep Debt Late last…
Organized Labor-Controlled Funds Have Been Appallingly Mismanaged Roughly a year after being sworn in as America’s 45th President, Donald Trump is coming under increasing pressure to defuse a number of policy “time bombs” planted by his predecessor during…
Among the 46 states that were either exclusively Right to Work or exclusively forced-unionism from 1991 to 2015, the 11 suffering the steepest declines in “good jobs” were all forced-unionism. Many Forced-Dues States See ‘Good Job’ Opportunities Fall Sharply The…
‘In Practice, You Can’t Enforce the First Amendment Half-Way’ Four decades ago, when it first considered a National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-backed challenge to the constitutionality of government-sector forced unionism, the U.S. Supreme Court tried to “split the…
The Committee has launched a full-scale campaign to pass H.R.4422, sponsored by Iowa Congressman Steve King. Credit to :Gage Skidmore Freedom From Union Violence Act Would Close ‘Lethal Loophole’ On November 16, pro-Right to Work U.S. Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa)…
Big Labor is now trying to persuade Missouri citizens to emulate economicallyfailing forced-unionism states like Illinois, their neighbor to the east, rather than flourishing Right to Work states. It’s a tough sell. CREDIT: ERIC ALLIE/ILLIINOIS MIRROR National Right to…
Mark Mix: Union bosses “know from experience” that small companies “are farmore likely to stand up to Big Labor pressure and refuse to sell out employees who wish to remain union-free than are large firms.” Credit for Mark Mix…
According to Tammy Wawro, top boss of the NEA teacher union-affiliated IowaState Education Association, allowing school districts to offer higher pay to teachers who accept difficult assignments is bad for school employee “morale”! Credit : Scott Morgan/Freelance Thanks to…
Big Labor congressional Democrat leaders Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosipropose gutting Right to Work measures already adopted by 28 states and nowgaining support in several more. And that’s just for starters! CREDIT FOR PHOTO: CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES So-Called…
In this year’s elections, Bob Casey (D-Pa.) (pictured with former President Barack Obama) and a number of other Big Labor senators will have to answer for their votes to perpetuate federally imposed force unionism. CREDIT MEDIA.PENNLIVE.COM National Right to Work…
Labor laws authorizing and promoting monopoly bargaining empower the officials of a single union to offer the sole employee” perspective on workplace matters at the negotiating table. This hugely benefits the union hierarchy. Barring Workers From Speaking For Themselves Profits…
Immediate Right to Work Implementation Sparks a Boom Next Door Early this year, Kentucky and Missouri respectively became the 27th and 28th states to adopt Right to Work laws. But what they have experienced since with regard to labor…
Congressional Sponsorship of H.R.785 and S.545 Has Topped 100 In September alone, 29 U.S. House members signed on as cosponsors of H.R.785. Among the new cosponsors that month were Mimi Walters (R-Calif., inset left), Francis Rooney (R-Fla., center), and Luke…
New York Teamsters, who had for decades been forced as a job condition to pay into a union-controlled pension fund, were pressured at meetings into approving immediate steep cuts in their pension benefits. CREDIT: RICK CARLIN/ALBANY (N.Y.) TIMES UNION Teamster…
For years, government union monopolists have been ripping off ordinary taxpayers in Illinois, a state where both private- and public-sector employees may be forced to pay Big Labor dues or fees as a job condition, in a host of ways.
David Shulkin, the VA secretary, is well aware that far too many VA employee hours are “being spent away from clinical duties and other duties” due to union “official time.” But his power to stop it is minimal. CREDIT: Zach…