Big Labor Loses in Florida Special Election
(Click here to download the April 2014 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) Right to Work Poised to Be an Important Issue…
April 2014 NRTWC Newsletter Now Available Online
(Click here to download the April 2014 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) In the April 2014 Edition: Big Labor Loses in Florida Special Election — Right to Work Poised…
What the Fahrvergnügen? VW Union Boss Says U.S. Southern States Worse Than North Korea
In the 1990s, Volkswagen (VW) ran an advertising campaign with Fahrvergnügen, a mysterious German word that seemed to have no equivalent in the English language. Maybe, Detlef Wetzel, Germany’s IG Metall Union Chairman…
Obama Administration Lawyer: Coercive 'Card Checks' Are a 'Favored Element of National Labor Policy'
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the principal federal law regulating employer-employee relations in America’s private sector, purports to uphold the right to “form, join or assist labor organizations” and also “the right to refrain from” forming, joining or assisting…
This Week's NRTW Supreme Court Brief Regarding Card-Check
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Attorney William Messenger filed the Foundation’s brief in the UNITE HERE LOCAL 355 v. MARTIN MULHALL Supreme Court case that is set to end card-check forced unionism as we know it. We have made…
Monopoly Privileges Breed Union Corruption -- and Police Unions Are No Exception to the Rule
More and more elected officials across the country are coming to recognize the unsurprising fact that public policies promoting monopolistic unionism in the workplace are harmful to employees, employers and consumers. And laws empowering one union to act as the…
Off-the-Charts Right to Work States Job Growth
If Obama is really serious about job creation, he should support Sen. Paul’s National Right to Work Act. The American Enterprise Institute argues that the strongest thing President Obama could do to jump start the economy would be he help…
Union Bosses And Senate Democrats Try to Stop Worker Pay Raises
Sen. Marco Rubio writes on the pages of National Review about the RAISE Act, legislation that would permit an employer to award individual employees with financial incentives beyond the pay or compensation level specified in a collective bargaining agreement (CBA): The basis of the American Dream is that one can work hard, play by the rules, and realize one’s potential. But big-government policies deny this freedom to millions of Americans. One of these policies can be fixed when the Senate votes on the RAISE Act later today. Under federal law, private-sector union contracts do not just set the minimum wage employers pay, they also set the maximum wage. Businesses may not pay more than the union rate without negotiating it. Unfortunately, unions often say “No” when employers propose rewarding productive workers. Unions prefer contracts that, to quote Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, “create uniform standards for all employees” — no matter how hard they work. Only about one in five union contracts permit performance pay.
Right To Work All Top 10 vs. Compulsory Unionism All Bottom 10
In Chief Executive Magazine's Best and Worst States for Business, all the top ten were from Right To Wok States. Unsurprisingly, Compulsory Unionism States took all bottom ten positions. States ranking from 1-10 are: Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Utah, Arizona. States ranked from the worst, 50-41: California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Hawaii. From the Chief Executive: 2012 Best & Worst States for business. Source: Chief Executive Magazine