Forced unionism apologists in the North Carolina House, seeking to remove the Tar Heel State’s 50-year-old ban on collective bargaining by state and local government employees, moved one step closer to getting the camel’s head in the tent. Big Labor…
Despite the highest unemployment rate in America, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm refuses to support true reform for her state. Granholm announced she would not upset her political benefactors by supporting Right to Work in the Wolverine State. Confident she could…
As we battled to save the Iowa Right to Work Law, union bosses and activists began to publicly promise that their goal was not to repeal the job creating law. Instead, they just wanted folks to pay their “fair share”…
Bob Dylan wrote “The Times They Are A-Changin’” long before the recent debate taking place in Michigan about the future of the economy and what can be done to turn it around. But the tune comes to mind when contemplating…
The editorial page of the Charleston Daily Mail forcefully makes the case for passage of a Right to Work law in West Virginia: West Virginia University economics professor Russell Sobel dared to raise the long-dormant issue of right-to-work in his…
Remember when Illinois Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich rallied union bosses and activists with a call for massive tax increases, declaring he was “on the side of the Lord?” The state AFL-CIO and the Illinois Education Association joined his cause demanding…
Columnist Manny Lopez joins the growing choir calling for implementation of a Right to Work law in Michigan. With Gov. Jennifer Granholm pushing a tax hike through the legislature, Lopez says it’s time for a grand compromise. “State Democrats, led…
The Detroit News rightly finds legislation introduced in the Michigan State Senate by Michael Prusi as “[f]urther proof that the teacher unions in Michigan — and their lackeys in the Legislature — have little concern for anyone but their members.”…
Jim Walters of the Georgetown, Kentucky News-Graphic understands that it will take “new ideas and leadership backbone” to move Kentucky forward economically: . . . Kentucky’s next governor could wield a positive influence over the commonwealth’s sluggish economy by…