In 2016 alone, IBB union President Newton Jones and his wife, brother and son raked in roughly $1.6 million in forced dues-funded IBB compensation. Federal labor law fosters such ills. Right to Work laws stop them. Credit: boilermakers.org Workers Compelled…
Right to Work laws not only protect workers’ freedom, they also increase job opportunities. Credit: SDExec.com Recent State-Level Right to Work Wins Hearten Grass-Roots Groups This year, members of grassroots groups based in states as diverse as Delaware, Maine, Montana,…
Ex-UAW officer Virdell King (inset left) had already pleaded guilty, and prosecutors seemed to be closing in on current UAW bosses like Cindy Estrada (right), when U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren addressed a UAW conference in February. Credit Inset: King Facebook,;…
All of the 13 most affordable states last year had adopted Right to Work laws. But not one of the 14 least affordable states had done so. (Shown above are the 10 most/least affordable states.) Least-Affordable States Are All Forced…
Despite the fact it is now clearly helping increase workers’ spendable incomes, top AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka claims workers are somehow being “hurt” by the tax cut package adopted late last year. Credit: Mike Segar-Reuters Union Officials Fume as American…
The rapid expansion of union-free automotive manufacturing employment in the U.S. over the past 35 years, and especially over the past quarter-century, has occurred overwhelmingly in states with Right to Work laws. Credit: Rogelio V. Solis-AP Market Share of UAW…
Without prompt preemptive action by President Trump, his massive infrastructure spending proposal has the potential to divert billions of forced-dues dollars into the coffers of union bigwigs like AFL-CIO czar Richard Trumka (Credit: Sam Nash) President Must Act Soon, or…
According to federal prosecutors, Pittsburgh union boss Ray Ventrone used workers’ forced dues to buy gym and nautilus equipment, sport tickets and multi-thousand-dollar restaurant meals. He ultimately copped to stealing $1.5 million. Obama Administration Slashed Funding For Corruption Watchdogs After…
Last fall, Trump appointee William Emanuel recused himself from 98 cases now before the NLRB. Most of Obama Appointees’ Anti-Right to Work Legacy Safe For Now? After the U.S. Senate confirmed President Trump’s nominations of Marvin Kaplan and William Emanuel…
A union goon’s attack blinded Victor Riesel, but didn’t deter him from exposing union-boss corruption. Riesel had been reporting on corruption in the International Union of Operating Engineers and its then-President, William C. DeKoning, Jr. The acid burning and blinding of Riesel is another…
Despite the undeniable correlation between forced unionism and dependency on federal welfare programs, union bosses often outrageously claim that corralling workers into unions is somehow a remedy for poverty. People Thrice as Apt to Be on Welfare in Forced-Unionism States…
According to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, statutes empowering government union kingpins like Alex Caputo-Pearl to create state crises serve “important interests of public employers across the nation.” Credit: Katie Falkenberg/Los Angeles Times Does California Attorney General Love Union Don-Created…
BOURBON AND BATTERIES: Gov. Matt Bevin thanked EnerBlu executives for bringing good-paying jobs to Pike County, Ky., then handed them a bottle of whiskey’s “sweet spot,” for which the Bluegrass State is world-famous. Credit: Missouri Times But Missouri Job Creation…
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…