Right to Work Archives

'In the Last 12 Years,' Unionized Auto Manufacturers 'Have Shed 200,000 Jobs'

After failing for the past three decades to secure monopoly-bargaining privileges at any foreign-owned auto-assembly plant in the U.S., United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union bosses are now claiming they are on the verge of success at the Volkswagen plant in…

April 16

Womack to NLRB, Stop!

The Hill reports Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) introduced legislation that would prevent actions taken by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) since last year from having any effect until the courts sort out whether President Obama’s appointments to that board…

April 16

Teachers’ Unions Don’t Empower Teachers

The American Thinker examines how big teachers union have become impediments for needed education reform: American public education may be in crisis, but teachers are fairly happy with their lives, according to a new Gallup poll: The…

April 15

'At a Minimum, the President Needs to Send Two New . . . Nominees to Replace the Two Who Were Unconstitutionally Appointed'

It’s been roughly three months since a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that three putative “recess” appointments union-label President Barack Obama had made to the powerful, five-member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in…

April 12

Right to Work Metropolises 'Help Their Residents Achieve Their Aspirations'

In an analysis this week for the Daily Beast (see the link below), economic demographer Joel Kotkin deploys plenty of facts and figures to rebut the notion, still espoused by many journalists, planners and pundits, that “old-style, high-density” cities like…

April 10

It Is Doubtful That, in a Competitive Labor Market, 'It Would . . . Ever Be Profitable For Employers to Offer a Closed Shop as a Condition of Employment'

In a new commentary for The Freeman (see the link below), pro-Right to Work economist Charles Baird opines that, with the adoption last year of the 23rd and 24th state Right to Work laws in Indiana and Michigan (!), respectively,…

April 8

Thatcher Labor Law Reforms 'Forced Managers to Think About Employees as Individuals Rather Than Trade Union Members Bound by Rules and Restrictions'

Margaret Thatcher passed away early today. It’s been nearly a quarter-century since the “Iron Lady” stepped down as Great Britain’s prime minister, but, as Reason Magazine contributor Ira Stoll observes in the commentary linked below, she remains highly relevant…

April 5

Michigan Teacher Union Boss Loves Math Teachers So Much He Wants to Ensure They Don't Get Paid Excessively

Last year, State Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake), a staunch foe of compulsory unionism, led the charge in his chamber of the Michigan Legislature for the Right to Work measure signed into law in December by GOP Gov. Rick Snyder. Among…

April 3

Stockton Is 'by Any Measure Insolvent'

On Monday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein cleared the way for Stockton, Calif., to file for bankruptcy, as the city of nearly 300,000 has been seeking to do for nine months. As of last summer, after trying for three years…