Union Class War Costs U.S. Families Billions
Top ILWU bosses like Willie Adams sought to use the leverage of clogged-up harbors to force operators to stop trying to automate ports. How successful the ILWU hierarchy was remains unclear for now.
‘This Is Just an Abuse of Members’ Money’
For years, IBB President Newton Jones and multiple members of the IBB Executive Council have been unabashedly misusing workers’ forced dues. But late this spring they suddenly began accusing each other of wrongdoing!
Perpetual Union-Boss Control Over Pennsylvania?
The state AFL-CIO hierarchy is leading the charge for a constitutional ban on Right to Work even as it deals with a scandal.
Right to Work’s 6:1 Edge in Factory Job Growth
The 11% job decline from February to April that year was one of the most sudden and dramatic setbacks for domestic factory employees ever.
New York Harbor’s Union Gougers Win Again
Criminal control over New York Harbor’s docks, epitomized in the public imagination by On the Waterfront’s Johnny Friendly, remains a costly scourge.
Rewarding the Best Teachers Helps Kids Learn
Economist Shows How Act 10 Has Improved Wisconsin’s K-12 Schools
Big Labor’s States Lose Another $73.3 Billion
Year after year, far more taxpayers are moving out of forced-unionism states than are moving into them. And forced-unionism states’ income losses due to taxpayer out-migration are soaring.
Right to Work Sponsorship Surpasses 100
As of late May, 79 U.S. House members had cosponsored H.R.1200. Cosponsors, shown clockwise from top right, include Jim Jordan, Chip Roy, James Comer, Anna Paulina Luna, Erin Houchin, and Burgess Owens. (Credit: Alex Brandon; Jordon Insert Credit: U.S. Congress;…
Union Monopolists on the Defensive in Virginia
In November 2021, Virginians elected a governor, Glenn Youngkin, and a House majority opposed to monopolistic unionism in government. And this year all 40 of the state’s Senate seats are potentially up for grabs. (Credit: Rachel Leppert, Youngkin for Governor/…
Biden NLRB Lawyers vs. Secret-Ballot Elections
At the aggressive prodding of Joe Biden-appointed NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, Biden appointees to the NLRB itself could soon overturn decades of precedent to expand massively coercive “card check” unionization. (Credit: A. F. Branco/ NRTWC.org) Bureaucratic Scheme to Mandate…
Michigan to Job-Creating Companies: Go Away
Right to Work Florida is a job magnet. Does Gov. Whitmer really want Michigan to be the opposite? (Credit: WNDU-TV/South Bend, Ind.) Right to Work Foes Glad State Soon Won’t Be ‘Open For Business’ Why would any Michigan elected official…
Real Incomes Higher in Right to Work States
One reason why spendable income is higher in Right to Work states is forced-dues states’ substantially higher state-local tax burdens.
Court ruling should kibosh anti-worker Biden pick
Julie Su should be voted down as secretary of labor On Thursday, a Senate panel chaired by avowedly socialist Vermont politician Bernie Sanders is set to hold a hearing on Big Labor President Joe Biden’s nomination of tunnel-visioned forced-unionism proponent…
Big Labor Collection Racket Under Fire
Dade County teacher union kingpin Karla Hernandez-Mats brazenly skims dues from Florida teachers’ paychecks long after they’ve resigned from her radical organization. But a pending state labor-law reform should force her to stop. (Credit: Karla Hernandez-Mats/ Wikimedia Commons) With Committee’s…
Will Ousting an Unwanted Union Get Even Harder?
Committee President Mark Mix and other Right to Work leaders have been bringing the Biden NLRB’s abuses of power to light through media appearances as well as through grassroots membership communications
In Manufacturing, Union Members’ Pay Is Lower
Big Labor Michigan politicians like Betsy Coffia arrogantly dismiss the expertise of independent-minded workers
Union Monopolists Shield K-12 Sexual Predators
At least “16 subsequent criminal charges have been filed” against adults affiliated with the school district “for sex-related crimes by prosecuting agencies.”
Congress Can’t Dodge the Right to Work Issue
After freedom-loving Virginia constituents were informed about Congresswoman Elaine Luria’s votes to destroy Right to Work laws in their state and 26 others, she was defeated in 2022 by a 100% pro-Right to Work challenger. (Credit: Mobilus in Mobili/Wikimedia Commons)…