Invoking a study by the Hartford-based Yankee Institute, Mr. Powell explained that the compensation of Connecticut’s government employees far exceeds that of most other states “because it is determined by a system that puts government employees above the law … .
If a guilty plea recently entered by former auto executive Michael Brown (inset) is accurate, it almost certainly shows that now-UAW President Gary Jones was involved in a conspiracy to pilfer money from a worker training fund. Credit: Forbes…
Big Labor politicians like Betty Sutton and Rich Cordray, who are running for Ohio’s top executive offices, will apparently take whatever forced-dues support they can get, even from the scandal-ridden United Auto Workers union brass. Sutton-Cordray Credit: UAW Big Labor…
By an incredible 26-to-1 margin, CEOs prefer adding jobs in Right to Work states over forced-unionism states, according to a nationwide survey of hundreds of CEOs conducted last year by Chief Executive magazine. Businesses Lopsidedly Prefer to Hire in…
Original U.S. Senate cosponsors of radical Bernie Sanders’ Right to Work destruction scheme include Democrats Sherrod Brown, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren (inset from left to right). Brown Inset Credit: AP Gillibrand Inset Cedit: Politico Harris Inset Credit:Harris…
Committee Vice President Matthew Leen (shown here testifying in support of New Hampshire Right to Work legislation): Forced-dues state residents fork over more for housing, energy, food, and health care. Right to Work Tax Freedom Day Comes Sooner Higher Living…
As Wall Street Journal editor Jason Riley recently noted, teacher union chiefs support work rules that “shield teachers from meaningful evaluations, and that require instructors to be laid off based on seniority instead of performance.” But Right to Work Law…
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,;…