EDITORIAL: Bring up right to work - Washington Times
EDITORIAL: Bring up right to workWashington TimesThese laws basically ensure no person can be compelled as a condition of employment to join or pay dues to a labor union. Contrary to the…
EDITORIAL: Bring up right to workWashington TimesThese laws basically ensure no person can be compelled as a condition of employment to join or pay dues to a labor union. Contrary to the…
Veteran English teacher Kristi Lacroix isn’t easily intimidated. She reports that she has been “laughed at, screamed at and spit on” due to her unabashed opposition to compulsory union dues and fees and union monopoly-bargaining abuses in K-12 public education.
More than two decades ago, a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals considered the question of whether an “employee who wishes to remain a union member but desires to contribute financially only to the…
Nolan Finley of the Detroit News discusses Big Labor efforts in Michigan to undercut Right To Work protections for workers. Rather than convincing workers that it is worth continuing their membership in the union, the bosses are seeking subvert new rights: Unions busy subverting right to workIf you're a professor at Wayne State or Western Michigan, or a school teacher in Taylor or Berkley and are eager to exercise your right to end your forced union membership, fuggedaboutit.The mob that runs the public employee unions in Michigan has already figured out a way to keep you as an indentured servant to the unions and their financial beneficiaries in the Democratic Party. Unions at those schools are rushing to renegotiate labor contracts before the March 27 effective date of the newly passed right-to-work law.Because the law includes a grandfather clause, contracts in place before that date aren't affected by right to work until they expire.In Wayne State's case, that would be 10 years from now, if the professors union's proposal to extend the current contract is approved by a board of trustees made up nearly entirely by Democrats whose election campaigns were financed by labor unions.Similar extensions are being weighed at Western Michigan and the Taylor and Berkley public schools, and a growing list of other places. It's a warning flag that right to work alone will not be enough to break labor's stranglehold on local politics and policy making.One of the reasons public employee unions are such a target of government reformers is that Michigan's collective bargaining laws basically create the opportunity for them to negotiate contracts with themselves.All the unions need to do is put their money behind candidates who support their agenda and get them elected in school board elections that attract little interest from voters.
Part of Don Brunell’s job as president of the Association of Washington Business, the Evergreen State chamber of commerce, is to accentuate the positive regarding the employment climate in his home state. But Brunell can’t help but notice that more…
A group of state legislators proposed a package of bills today that would make Pennsylvania a Right to Work state by ending compulsory unionism and the payment of union dues by non-union members in both the public and private…
In a new commentary for Forbes, economic demographer Joel Kotkin elucidates why the states of “the old Confederacy,” which just happen to all be Right to Work states, have “long-term economic prospects” that “shine bright.” Meanwhile, none of the declining states in…
Click here to download a copy Right to Work Activism Spreading Like Wildfire — Victories in Indiana, Michigan Build Momentum in Other States Big Labor…
Last Friday, Standard & Poor announced its latest downgrading of forced-unionism Illinois’s fiscal status. The Prairie State now has an S&P credit level of A-, putting it in a tie with Big Labor-controlled California for 49th in the country. But…