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…
Reps. Scott Tayor (R-Va., center), and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) pledged to cosponsor national Right to Work legislation during their successful 2016 campaigns. But so far they haven’t done so. Many of the constituents who helped elect them want to know…
Big Labor Senators Aim to Cement Courts’ Pro-Forced Unionism Bias Even as the number of Right to Work states and the share of all U.S. employees protected from compulsory unionism grew rapidly from early 2012 through early last year,…
Right to Work Advocates Left Without a Choice in Special Election Will the politicians ever learn? How many times does it have to be demonstrated that waffling on national Right to Work legislation is no way to protect yourself from…
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorney and Janus case Counsel of Record Bill Messenger: The Supreme Court would be ill-advised to allow public-sector forced fees to continue “effectively as a form of protection money . . . .”…
This year, freedom-loving Missourians need help from around the nation. Without it, they may not be able to stop forced dues-funded union political operatives from destroying the Show-Me State’s fledgling Right to Work law. Credit: Ars Technica Worker Freedom Boosts…
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…