U.S. Census Bureau data have long shown a substantial net migration out of states in which employees may be compelled to join a union or pay union dues as a job condition to states that protect the individual employee’s freedom…
Mike Antonucci of the Education Intelligence Agency offers an excellent report (see the link below) on the latest news regarding the state of Indiana’s lawsuit against the National Education Association teacher union-affiliated Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) for “unlawful sale…
Michigan’s Right to Work law went into effect yesterday, but not for some employees thanks to last minute deals like this one. With only hours to spare before workers under two city contracts were about to be given the freedom to choose to…
Today the ban on forced union dues and fees adopted by legislators in Lansing, and signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder, last December takes effect. That means Michigan is now officially America’s 24th Right to Work state. The primary…
Newly reported and revised U.S. Commerce Department data out today confirm that forced-unionism Illinois has one of the worst track records in the country for private-sector compensation growth over the past decade. After adjusting for inflation using the CPI-U, Illinois’s…
One especially ugly aspect of the National Labor Relations and Railway Labor Acts (NLRA and RLA) and state laws affecting public-sector employees that are modeled after them is that they actively encourage employers to treat employees’ freedom of choice as…
Two years ago this month, government union bosses in the Badger State and nationwide suffered a major blow when the Wisconsin Legislature adopted, and Gov. Scott Walker signed into law, the budgetary and labor-policy reform measure commonly referred to as…
As he toured the country last year promoting Shadowbosses, an exposé of monopolistic government unionism he authored with his wife Elizabeth, professor and pundit Mallory Factor liked to characterize the Democratic Party, provocatively, as…
It’s been 90 days since lawmakers in Lansing approved legislation to make Michigan America’s 24th Right to Work state, but the statute prohibiting forced union dues and fees has yet to take effect. This is common practice. In the Wolverine…