Teacher Union Chiefs Lower Educator Salaries Union bosses are culpable for the surge in public pension costs decried by education policy expert Chad Aldeman. Chart Bellwether Education Partners Big Labor Bosses Benefit, But ‘No Current or Future Teacher Wins’ Government…
n a 2014 open letter to Alabama teacher union officials, former state teacher union President Paul Hubbert admitted that the loss of automatic “payroll deduction” privileges was a key reason the union’s finances were deteriorating rapidly. Credit: AP file photo/…
If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ongoing efforts to prevent public employees from exercising their Janus rights fall short, his next move may well be to “tap taxpayers, rather than union members, to fund unions’ operations.” Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images…
In America today, millions of private employees are still being fleeced by bosses of unions they would never voluntarily join, even after the U.S. Supreme Court declared similar schemes in the public sector to be unconstitutional. High Court’s Janus Decision…
Presidential ‘Step in the Right Direction’ Limits Big Labor’s Privilege to Bill Taxpayers For Union Business National Right to Work leaders, who urged Donald Trump when he first took office to use his executive power to curtail government…
Breadwinners’ ‘Forced-Dues State Exodus’ Between 2007 and 2017, a Net Loss of 3.2 Million ‘Peak Earners’ Union propagandists often grossly understate, or altogether “forget” about, regional cost-of-living differences when they are debating living standards in Right to Work states vs.
The National Right to Work Act, legislation already introduced in the U.S. House (as H.R.785) and the U.S. Senate (as S.545), would prohibit the termination of private-sector employees covered by the NLRA or the RLA for mere refusal to join or bankroll a union they didn’t ask for, and don’t want.
This June, construction began on an aluminum mill ultimately expected to employ 600 people earning an average salary of roughly $70,000 a year in eastern Kentucky. It wouldn’t have happened without Right to Work. Appalachian County Welcomes $1.5 Billion…
Invoking a study by the Hartford-based Yankee Institute, Mr. Powell explained that the compensation of Connecticut’s government employees far exceeds that of most other states “because it is determined by a system that puts government employees above the law … .
If a guilty plea recently entered by former auto executive Michael Brown (inset) is accurate, it almost certainly shows that now-UAW President Gary Jones was involved in a conspiracy to pilfer money from a worker training fund. Credit: Forbes…
Big Labor politicians like Betty Sutton and Rich Cordray, who are running for Ohio’s top executive offices, will apparently take whatever forced-dues support they can get, even from the scandal-ridden United Auto Workers union brass. Sutton-Cordray Credit: UAW Big Labor…
By an incredible 26-to-1 margin, CEOs prefer adding jobs in Right to Work states over forced-unionism states, according to a nationwide survey of hundreds of CEOs conducted last year by Chief Executive magazine. Businesses Lopsidedly Prefer to Hire in…
Original U.S. Senate cosponsors of radical Bernie Sanders’ Right to Work destruction scheme include Democrats Sherrod Brown, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren (inset from left to right). Brown Inset Credit: AP Gillibrand Inset Cedit: Politico Harris Inset Credit:Harris…
Committee Vice President Matthew Leen (shown here testifying in support of New Hampshire Right to Work legislation): Forced-dues state residents fork over more for housing, energy, food, and health care. Right to Work Tax Freedom Day Comes Sooner Higher Living…
As Wall Street Journal editor Jason Riley recently noted, teacher union chiefs support work rules that “shield teachers from meaningful evaluations, and that require instructors to be laid off based on seniority instead of performance.” But Right to Work Law…
If the Supreme Court rules for Mark Janus and his Right to Work-led legal team, union financial support will become voluntary for millions of currently forced dues-paying public servants — and Big Labor will howl! Credit: Tom Kay, adapted by…
Four-and-a-half decades ago, government union boss Victor Gotbaum acknowledged that, in the public sector, Big Labor determines who sits on one side of the bargaining table, and heavily influences who sits on the other. Credit: AP File Photo ‘We Have…
Under new Chairman John Ring, the NLRB can make it less difficult for workers to dismiss unwanted unions. Biased Regulations Keep Union Monopolists Entrenched For Decades On April 11, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm President Trump’s nomination of attorney…