Why is Michigan’s car industry struggling but Alabama’s is thriving? How is the “Yellowhammer State” successfully courting companies like Honda, Toyota Motor Corp. and Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz? Steve Sewell, executive vice president for the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, said…
What an outrage! To justify his vote to eliminate workers’ input in the unionization process, Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) is claiming that his vote to enact the Card Check Scam Bill was the “first step toward modernizing American labor law.”…
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,…
It has been nearly 30 days since the Iowa State House and Senate passed a sweeping union power grab of the state’s school boards. Despite initial indications that Democrat Gov. Chet Culver was not inclined to support the legislation, it…
The News Virginian knows that Virginia’s Right to Work Law has been a boon to the citizens of the Commonwealth, but that hasn’t stopped the state’s Big Labor bosses from trying to undermine the law: Concealed beneath the clamor over…
Texas State Rep. Ken Paxton understands what it takes to create jobs and prosperity. Writing in the Dallas Morning News, Paxton points out that “Texas has gained 36,000 manufacturing jobs since 2004, while 200,000 manufacturing jobs have left Ohio since…
The United States Supreme Court has stepped into a dispute between the state of Idaho and labor unions over payroll deductions for political activities, reports the Associated Press. The state asked the justices to take the case, which involves an…
The union power grab of local school boards is hitting a snag. Editorial boards, educators and now, perhaps, even the Democrat governor is saying the unions and their cronies in the legislature are going too far, too fast. The Quad-City…