As Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former chief economist with the U.S. Labor Department and now a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, reported in a commentary appearing yesterday on the web site RealClearMarkets, Volkswagen (VW) executives appear to be violating U.S.
It was more than 70 years ago that Justice Robert Jackson famously declared, in his U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion resolving West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, that free speech and other core constitutional rights of the individual…
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…
In 2011, Forbes magazine ranked Indiana a dismal 49th in economic growth prospects. Look at Indiana now. Indiana’s Right to Work law brought over four dozen new companies to the Hoosier State.
From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune (4/16/1976): A stolen yellow forklift charged through the Jupiter Chemical Co. construction site and ravaged two office trailers like a bull goring a matador. First one and then the other was ripped open. Three men…
Activists Push For Recorded Votes on State Right to Work Measures (Click here to download the National Right to Work Committee’s November-December 2013 Newsletter) Even union bosses and their apologists sometimes grudgingly admit that long-term private-sector job growth in…
If public officials legally empower union bosses to represent employees who don’t want a union as well as those who do, the law “must” also empower them to force the unwilling employees to pay union dues or fees. Otherwise, such…
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…
The Detroit News takes note of union bosses’ antics in Michigan that they continue to use to try to make teachers crawl over glass before they can stop paying tribute to the union. Shut out of foreign-run auto plants, the United Auto…