Data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that, overall, states where forced union dues are permitted are failing to offer appealing economic opportunities to retain and attract college-educated, working-age adults.
Committee President Mark Mix had accepted an invitation to testify, as had Brunilda Vargas and Jeanette Geary, two employees who are victims of compulsory unionism and clients of the Committee’s sister organization, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.
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Where forced union dues are permitted, workers and other people end up with less purchasing power.
With CTU President Stacy Davis Gates calling the shots, taxpayer costs for Chicago schools are skyrocketing even as educational outcomes get worse and worse. But the miserable status quo works for Big Labor politicians.
Matthew Lilley (inset): Union contracts often feature “last-in, first-out layoff rules,” which typically “disadvantage” younger employees -- who may reasonably regard such rules as “blind” to their value as individuals.
“While deducting an exorbitant 3% of the caregivers’ paychecks, without even pretending to address any workplace issues, Laphonza Butler’s Local 2015 would routinely send form letters to members who had attempted to resign telling them they couldn’t,” noted Mr. Mourad.
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Without Janus, virtually all of these employees would still be bankrolling a union to keep their jobs. But the data show that, thanks to Janus, nearly 730,000 of them are not having any union dues withheld from their paychecks.
In 2020, Big Labor senators like Monty Mason and then-Gov. Ralph Northam colluded to kill Virginia’s ban on monopolistic public-sector unionism. Now Mr. Mason and his legislative cohorts must answer to their constituents.
The police union embezzler Ed Mullins headed didn’t even require him to provide receipts for his expenditures.
On July 27, Gary Glenn passed away after a seven-year battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Annette, and their five children and nine grandchildren.
To top ILA bosses’ fury, union-free state employees do a share of the work at ports in three Right to Work states. But thanks to Biden NLRB appointees, those workers’ jobs may soon be scuttled!
Acting Labor Sec. Julie Su wouldn’t have the power now to threaten Americans’ ability to support their families or supplement their incomes by working as freelancers.
By the time actual employees learn that Big Labor salts’ promises of better pay, benefits, and working conditions were empty, the salts are long gone.
Former UA union member Karl Ludwig: The UA “intentionally excludes potential pipefitters from the labor market to limit supply and drive up prices. Worse yet, the exclusion means less pipefitting work gets done.”
“The road to eventual passage of Right to Work in Ohio won’t be easy,” said Mr. Hood. “But the payoff will be huge.
By comparison, union political action committees (PACs) collectively reported to the FEC a relatively paltry $54.7 million in expenditures during the 2021-22 election cycle.