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…
David Elbert of the Des Moines Register says all the pro-Big Labor lifting Iowa Democrats have done for the union bosses is a gift to the Republican Party. First they tried to repeal the Hawkeye State Right to Work Law,…
Iowa’s most influential political observer, David Yepsen, has some advice for Iowa’s Democrat Gov. Chet Culver — veto the union power grab and get yourself reelected. By standing up to some of the labor unions, Gov. Chet Culver may have…