Even in Right to Work states, where Big Labor lacks compulsory-dues privileges, government union officials often wield inordinate power in the policy-making process. And taxpayers, students and other people who depend on public services, and independent-minded employees whose interests don’t…
(Click here to download the October 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) ‘My Name’s Joe Biden and I Work For Leo Gerard’ — But For Whom Do the Announced 2016 Presidential Candidates Work? Contract-Company, Franchise Employees…
Yesterday the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued its initial estimates for total 2014 private-sector, nonfarm employment in the 50 states. The BEA simultaneously released revised estimates for overall state personal income and an array of specific…
As summer turns to fall in Michigan this year, top bosses of the Detroit Federation of Teachers union (DFT) might well be tempted to paraphrase cartoonist Walt Kelly, the creator of Pogo: “We have met the enemy, and he used to…
Airbus, the European plane-maker that has for years been competing with Boeing for dominance in the global aerospace market, is staking its hopes for expanding its relatively small share of the U.S. market on a $600 million plant for single-aisle…
National Right to Work Foundation files brief in Friedrichs arguing that compulsory union dues for civil servants are incompatible with free speech Washington, DC (September 14, 2015) – National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys filed an amicus curiae…
Perhaps not even Vice President Joe Biden himself knows at this point whether or not he will be seeking the Democrat nomination for the presidency next year. But at least Biden harbors no doubts regarding which side his political bread…
Big Labor Fights For ‘Government Slackers’ on Taxpayers’ Dime (Source: July 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) A three-part series of reports filed in early June by journalist Elizabeth MacDonald for Fox Business offered an array of…
Union Bosses’ Monopoly Power Drives Away Taxpayers of All Kinds (Source: July 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) According to the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, this year on average citizens of forced-unionism Connecticut are surrendering well…