For decades, ordinary Mainers have been able to see right through Big Labor bosses’ flimsy excuses for compelling workers to support unions financially. But too many state lawmakers are still tunnel-visioned forced-dues apologists. (credit: BOB PALMER CARTOON ADAPTED BY NRTWC)…
Depending on how their case turns out, Boston political operatives Kenneth Brissette (left) and Timothy Sullivan could establish a new means for Big Labor bosses to seize monopoly power over employees through extortion, and get away with it. (credit: LANE…
President Can Stop Infrastructure Bill From Bilking Taxpayers By the time this month’s Newsletter edition reaches its readers, the U.S. Congress may well have already received a plan from the Trump Administration calling for the expenditure of a trillion…
The average resident of a Right to Work state is spending two weeks less time this year laboring to pay off his or her total tax burden than is the average compulsory-unionism state resident. This Year, Right to Work ‘Tax…
Union monopoly bargaining and forced union dues foment hate-the-boss class warfare. They also help Big Labor impose and perpetuate counterproductive and costly work rules. Lower employee purchasing power is a logical consequence. (credit: Dawn des brisay/longshore shipping news) Residents of…
In all, IBB union President Newton Jones and his wife, brother and son raked in roughly $1.6 million in forced dues-funded IBB salaries and “reimbursements” last year alone. Meanwhile, rank-and-file jobs are disappearing. (credit: INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF BOILERMAKERS) Retired Boilermaker’s…
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,…