More Evidence Maine Should Adopt Right To Work; It Works
Amy Volk, a state representatives from Maine, makes an eloquent case why the state should adopt a Right to Work law: For years, an unhealthy alliance between Democratic politicians and labor…
Right To Work Freedom Wins Again in Michigan Court
HotAir.com has a nice summary of the failing efforts of Michigan union bosses to smother the spread of Right to Work in the state: Last winter, the state of Michigan officially became the country’s 24th right-to-work state —…
Data Indicate Forced Union Dues-Paying Factory Workers Have Far Less Job Security, Lower Wages
A front-page Wall Street Journal article published at the beginning of this week (see link below) and other news reports are calling public attention to the fact that, after many years of decline, manufacturing employment in the U.S. has modestly…
Right To Work Rights and Wrongs
By Larry Sand On August 13, 2013 · (From UnionWatch) Teachers union treasurer perpetuates myths about worker freedom. The term “right-to-work” (RTW) very simply means that workers don’t have to pay…
AFL-CIO Targets Union Dues Money for More Campaign Spending
Politico reports that the union bosses at the AFL-CIO will be spending vast amounts of union dues money to on gubernatorial elections in the coming election cycle: AFL-CIO bosses plan to throw their “political weight most heavily into a half-dozen…
AFL-CIO Targets MI Gov. Rick Snyder
The AFL-CIO is putting a target on Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and five other Republican governors in the 2014 election, WHTC reports: The union’s Political Director Michael Podhorzer told the audience at a breakfast in Washington, D.C. Tuesday the organization will go after…
MI Court: Right To Work Protects First Amendment Rights of Workers
A coalition of state employee union officials pushed to keep compulsory unionism and argued illogically that it was antithetical to freedom of speech. However, the court has embraced the argument that National Right to Work has made for decades —…
Compulsory-Unionism System Now an 'Equal-Opportunity Destroyer'
In an op-ed this week for the Michigan Chronicle (see the link below), recognized five times by the National Newspaper Publishers Association as the best black newspaper in America, Stacy Swimp, president of the Flint, Mich.-based Frederick Douglass Society and grass-roots…
Big Labor Refusing to abide by Michigan's Right to Work Law
Big Labor is refusing to abide by Michigan’s new Right to Work law but the National Right to Work Foundation is holding them accountable, the …