The Committee was forwarded an e-mail that, in part, read: We have just learned from our contacts in Washington that the HELP committee [U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions] has postponed other scheduled business and will conduct…
Data for the Tax Filing Year 2008 show that a total of 1.523 million personal income tax filers were residing that year in a Right to Work state after residing somewhere else in the U.S. the previous year. Meanwhile, a…
Slow boat sales are putting marine related jobs in jeopardy; but it may be Union Bosses that cause the closure of a Wisconsin Mercury Marine factory. Because monopoly bargaining privileges grant union officers exclusive authority to speak for all workers,…
Chicago’s Fran Eaton calls the effects of forced unionism as she sees it: Just when that house begins to teeter is when the bullies really get mean and desperate. We’re seeing that now at the federal level. Unions want to…
The Hill reports Sen. Specter will feel “liberated” to support union boss demands on labor law changes that tilt the playing field in favor of the union bosses and…
Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Committee, looks at the possibility that Democrats will repeal Right to Work. There is little doubt — if they could, they would.
House Democrat leaders are pushing for another bailout of American car manufacturers. $25 billion in loans have already been approved and Sen. Debbie Stabenow is looking for another $25 billion more. Of course, the loans would come with no strings…
Leslie Carbone, writing in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, writes about the National Education Association (NEA) unions’ continued opposition to parental choice, opposition to educational reform and lavish spending of teachers’ dues money on a radical political agenda. Carbone notes: The…
The Dallas Morning News has printed a great summary of the attacks by Big Labor on Texas’ Right to Work Law. It’s worth the read.