The North Branch Construction company of Concord, New Hampshire is standing up to the Obama Administration’s determined effort to ensure that ALL construction projects funded by the federal government benefit the union bosses. In what is apparently the first effort…
Representing a state with a popular Right to Work law that protects a workers’ right to choose whether to join or support a labor union sometimes makes it tough to pay back your pro forced unionism political backers but in…
Doug Stafford, Vice President of the National Right to Work Committee, was interviewed by the Pittsburgh Tribune and gave an articulate update on the state of affairs of big labor’s political power plays. It’s worth a read.
A “Project Labor Agreement” (PLA) between the California Rancho Santiago Community College District and a union illegally discriminates against construction workers who exercise their right to refrain from union membership and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation won’t…
What do underfunded union pensions and Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) have to with each other? A lot; the Obama Administration and Pelosi’s Congress chose to force construction workers to pay into union pensions to work. That’s right, if you plan…
In a recent issue of Human Events, National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix spoke out on the Obama administration’s economic “stimulus” package: Barnstorming the country to sell his economic “stimulus” package, for which U.S. taxpayers will ultimately…
President-elect Obama’s plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in public construction will certainly be funneled through union-only construction projects. Although only 15% of America’s private-public hardhat labor force currently belongs to a union, you can rest…
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used his power as governor to veto a proposed $6 million in state funding to a Big Labor institute that trains political operatives. Kevin Korenthal, the Executive Director of the Associated Builders and Contractors of California,…
Like a diamond in the rough, the Waterbury Republican American newspaper in the heart of Big Labor Connecticut is willing to stand up for taxpayers against the political power of union bosses even when the politicians won’t. Their latest editorial…