The Holland Sentinel in Michigan knows that the Card Check Scam is bad for workers and the economy: . . . The most important element of the Employee Free Choice Act is its promotion of the “card check” system of…
David Gillis of the Times Herald newspaper in Port Huron, Michigan has looked at the numbers and concludes Michigan can no longer afford to restrict workers’ Right to Work. Why? According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in the 22…
The Grand Rapids Press is calling for the defeat of the Card Check Scam Bill: Under the Employee Free Choice Act, a majority of employees simply need to sign a card expressing a willingness to join the union. Workers…
The latest state unemployment figures, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, show that state Right to Work laws have a significant effect on unemployment rates. In December 2008, states with Right to Work laws had an average unemployment rate…
With some Democrats and liberal pundits proclaiming that forced unionism at automobile plants in Right to Work states is the solution to what ails the American car industry, it’s critical to understand just how the United Auto Workers’ monopoly union…
Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin takes an in-depth look at the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) free-spending ways. We have seen union bosses spend workers’ dues money in frivolous ways before, but the UAW brass could take the cake for outrageous…
Paul Egan, in the Detroit News, reports on more Big Labor union boss corruption. Walter Ralph Mabry, the former Detroit-area head of the carpenters union convicted of corruption charges in 2006, is under federal investigation in connection with an alleged…
The United Auto Workers (UAW) is pleading poverty in Washington, but back in Michigan they can always retreat to their very own golf resort. That’s right: The UAW has taken workers’ dues money and bought a golf course. Ranked the…
Fred Barnes at the Weekly Standard takes an in-depth look at America’s “other” auto industry located outside of Big Labor’s fiefdom: Unlike the timid auto executives, politicians in the right-to-work states are quite candid in crediting the enormous appeal of…