Joe Biden Threatens U.S. Communities’ Safety -- And this year U.S. presidential challenger Joe Biden, now favored to win in November according to most polls, is backing an even more expansive scheme to enhance the power of government union bosses in all 50 states...
State laws protecting employees’ Right to Work are strongly correlated with better- funded public pensions. On average, unfunded pension liabilities per capita are 40% lower in Right to Work states than in forced-unionism states. Chart by NRTWC Staff Union Dons…
Just last year, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed legislation granting government union bosses “exclusive” representation control over an additional 20,000 public employees. Image: Andrew Davey, previously published in Nevada Today In recent weeks, tax revenues have plummeted across the country…
The Governor can act this week to VETO these bills. A Northam Veto will allow state, county, and city officials to focus their planning on the way forward during this crisis. Otherwise, they will need to deal with new burdens…
Committee Vice President John Kalb testified to the Virginia Senate Commerce and Labor Committee that government union monopoly bargaining would be bad for workers, bad for taxpayers and bad for our representative form of government. (Richmond, VA, February 24, 2020)…
Unfortunately, Virginia state Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw (D-Fairfax) and state House of Delegates Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Springfield) don’t think they should have to wait for the grave doubts about the constitutionality (Roanoke Times Opinion) In 2018, the U.S. Supreme…
Force Oregon Taxpayers to Bankroll Unions? Beaver State Right to Work supporters face an uphill battle trying to keep a bill imposing direct taxpayer funding of government unions from reaching the desk of Big Labor Gov. Kate Brown (pictured). Credit:…
Oklahoma state Rep.-elect Toni Hasenbeck is a seventh grade teacher and 2018 candidate who publicly disagreed with union chiefs on key issues like taxes and charter schools. She won in November by a 1,600-vote margin. Credit: Toni Hasenbeck campaign photo…
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…