Its not enough to have a National Labor Relations Board using the force of government to move your agenda, now Boss Trumka wants a radical rewrite of America’s labor laws outlawing, among other things, your Right to Work.
The top nine states in the country to do business are all Right to Work states, according to Area Development Magazine, with Texas leading the way.
Just eight months ago, a federal judge slapped down a lawsuit filed by top bosses of Chicago-based Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) against Indiana’s Right to Work law. Like 23 other very similar statutes and…
Last week CNBC reported (see the link below) on the mounting controversy over a type of government program that can force a farmer to hand over a portion of his or her annual crop “without getting paid for it.” Such…
The Oregonian takes Gov. Kitzhaber to task for opposing a ballot initiative that would give state workers the ability of opting out of their union. Gov. John Kitzhaber gave both barrels on Monday to a proposed initiative that would allow…
Rep. Jim DeCeasre, a Republican from Warren County Kentucky, has said he’ll introduce a Right to Work bill in the next legislative session. Let the fight for worker’s choice begin in…
Our friends on the Great White North have been taking up the fight to enact a Right to Work laws in Canada. The Fraser Institute released study for British Columbia and Ontario, which says Ontario would see…
In a Labor Day weekend op-ed published in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (see the link below), James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation tersely explains why laws and policies authorizing the officials of one union to act as the “exclusive” bargaining agent…
The Free Beacon reports on our efforts to highlight a loophole in federal law that allows union activists and militants to use violence without fear of prosecution: Labor watchdogs held a candlelight vigil outside AFL-CIO headquarters…