In a letter to Congress, 10 governors voiced objections to imposition of the Card Check Scam (i.e. the so-called Employee Free Choice Act) on their states. The letter states: January 8, 2009 Dear Senator Reid, Senator McConnell, Speaker Pelosi,…
The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has announced the winners of its two annual essay contests on the Right to Work issue, the William B. Ruggles Journalism Scholarship and the Applegate/Jackson/Parks Future Teachers Scholarship. Valerie Bischoff, currently a first-year…
The Las Vegas Sun has an interesting overview of the stakes and implications of enacting the Card Check Scam Bill. As the Sun reported, passage of the bill “. . . would for the first time in 60 years,…
In early January, Governor Jim Gibbons signed an executive order repealing former Governor Bob Miller’s 1994 executive order mandating project labor agreements on Nevada public works construction projects. Reported in the Las Vegas Review Journal. According to representatives of Nevada’s…
Union bosses don’t have much reverence for elections. Their efforts to gut worker elections by enacting the Card Check Scam Bill are prima facie evidence. So we are watching with amusement as members of the Nevada Service Employees International Union…
The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council’s “Small Business Survival Index 2007” has ranked South Dakota, Nevada and Wyoming as the best three states in the nation for job creation and small business entrepreneurship. Not surprisingly, all three states have enacted…