Surrounded by Pennsylvania mining employees, President Trump signs his deregulatory “Promoting Energy Independence” Executive Order. Mining-sector jobs have rebounded rapidly during his administration’s early months. (PHOTO JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Employment Surges as Obama ‘Killer’ Regulations Are Lifted In May 2008,…
Independent-minded employees are still suffering due to Barack Obama’s pro-forced-unionism policies Unless Appropriators Act, Workers Will Continue Being Harmed Since President Barack Obama’s handpicked appointees took full control over the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in early 2010, they have…
Big Labor’s Politics/Lobbying Expenditures Top $1.7 Billion Drawing on a variety of published sources, the National Institute for Labor Relations Research has recently estimated that Big Labor spent more than $1.7 billion on politics and lobbying in 2015 and 2016.
So-called “project labor agreements,” or PLAs, effectively force nonunion companies wishing to participate in public works to impose union monopoly bargaining on their current employees and hire new workers through union boss-controlled hiring halls. (CREDIT: WWW.LABORISSUESSOLUTIONS.COM) Obama Edict Still Stacking…
Some Republicans like Tom Cole (Okla.) are suggesting it’s impossible to cut wasteful federal programs that subsidize union-boss schemes to force employees to pay union dues. But Mr. Cole and his cohorts are wrong. (credit: GETTY IMAGES) Trump Administration Requests…
Steven Greenhut: “It’s no secret” that union bosses put longtime workers’ interests above those of “newbies.” (credit: SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE) ‘You Had No Reason to Expect’ Union Officials ‘Would Betray You’ Today more than 30 states have laws on the…
Union Dons Authorized to Download Workers’ Personal Information Employers’ personnel files hold lots of private information about employees, including their Social Security numbers and those of their next of kin. If identity thieves gain access to employees’ names along…
National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix: Union bigwigs’ recurrent failure to fulfill their pension obligations toward employees is “another distressing illustration of just how little” they deserve their “forced-dues privileges.” (credit: C-SPAN New York Teamster Retirees ‘on the…
Today, employees in a majority of states can rely on Right to Work laws to protect themselves against unscrupulous union bosses. But Committee members won’t be satisfied until all American employees enjoy Right to Work protections. Compulsory Unionism Linked to…
Two More States May Bar Compulsory Union Dues and Fees This Year In 2015, 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 entrepreneur Matt Bevin (R)…
Program Has Proven to Be Effective in All Political Climates In the months leading up to November’s general elections, top union bosses and their political strategists predicted again and again that their electioneering machine would ultimately install a Big Labor…
Efforts to Punish Forced-Dues Foes at the Polls Fail Miserably Among the many rebukes Big Labor bosses received from fed-up voters on November 8, the most bitter of all may have been the results of a number of relatively low-profile,…
Incoming President’s First High Court Choice Could Be Crucial For the third time in just six years, voters in the vast majority of the 50 states dealt a drubbing to union-boss puppet politicians in the 2016 federal elections. In November…
Three States May Now Be Ready to Prohibit Compulsory Union Dues On November 8, Big Labor’s favored executive-branch and legislative candidates got shellacked in Midwestern, Southern, and even Northeastern states as voters rejected union bosses’ agenda of more and more…
One More High Court Vote Would Give Big Labor an Opportunity (Source: November-December 2016 National Right To Work Newsletter) Undoubtedly fearing they would provoke a harsh public backlash if they did, top union bosses aren’t talking publicly about the…
Michigan Politician Selectively Favors ‘Tyranny of the Majority’ (Click here to download the April 2016 National Right To Work Newsletter) It was three years ago last month that Michigan’s Right to Work law, adopted in December 2012 over the loud…
Metal Production Moves to ‘More Efficient’ Right to Work States (download the September 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) With Pennsylvania emerging as a possible “battleground” state in the fall 2016 presidential contest, the Trump and Clinton campaigns are both claiming they will,…
There Is ‘No Constitutional Right to Work as a Non-Unionist’?? (download the September 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) Polls have long shown that Americans overwhelmingly believe the personal right not to join a union is just as worthy of protection under the…