Financial writer Steve Malanga: “New Jersey’s pension math no longer works because about two-thirds of the retirement money that states are promising workers is supposed to come from investment gains. But when a system is short $135 billion, it gets…
Cosponsors (last updated 10/1/2016) U.S. Senate Bill S.391 U.S. House Bill H.R.612 Cosponsor Date Cosponsored Cosponsor Date Cosponsored Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]* 2/5/2015 Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]* 1/28/2015 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]* 2/5/2015 Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]* 1/28/2015…
Metal Production Moves to ‘More Efficient’ Right to Work States (download the September 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) With Pennsylvania emerging as a possible “battleground” state in the fall 2016 presidential contest, the Trump and Clinton campaigns are both claiming they will,…
There Is ‘No Constitutional Right to Work as a Non-Unionist’?? (download the September 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) Polls have long shown that Americans overwhelmingly believe the personal right not to join a union is just as worthy of protection under the…
From 2005 to 2015, total private-sector, nonfarm employment increased by 15.4% in Right to Work states, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. That increase is nearly 50% greater than the aggregate percentage gain for forced-dues states. Image: AP Photo/Charles Krupa/File…
Big Labor Appeasement Tactic Not Viable For Republican Candidates (download the September 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) Top union officials in the Keystone State and nationwide are now revving up their forced-dues-fueled political machine for a ferocious campaign to unseat freshman U.S.
Union-Boss Vow: Newly-filled High Court Will Hear Nationwide-Forced-Dues Case (download the September 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) In four lawsuits now pending in two different federal circuits and in the…
[vsw id=”rYk_DXHykTI” source=”youtube” width=”560″ height=”325″ autoplay=”yes”] (Mr. Reed E. Larson passed away late Saturday, September 17, 2016) After a visit to the United States, a noted British journalist wrote a column in the London Daily Telegraph about the…
In this campaign cycle, Big Labor is expected to spend close to two billion dollars, mostly dues and fees employees are forced to fork over as a condition of employment, to elect Clinton-Kaine. But a recent scientific nationwide poll shows…