With Right to Work supporter, now Governor-elect Matt Bevin’s substantial victory, Kentucky is perched to become the 26th Right to Work state. Kentuckians have sent a message: End Forced Unionism. From the Lexington-Herald Leader: Republican Matt Bevin, who trailed in…
Over the past few weeks, thousands of retirees who long forked over forced union dues and fees to the Teamster Union as a condition of employment have received letters from the Teamster boss-controlled Central States Pension Plan informing them that,…
There is no doubt, as New York Times labor reporter Noam Scheiber said at the outset of a long and mostly unflattering article last weekend profiling Harold Schaitberger, the general president of the International Association of Fire Fighters union, that…
But For Whom Do the Announced 2016 Presidential Candidates Work? (source: National Right to Work October 2015 Newsletter) By his own account, Vice President Joe Biden is still mulling over whether or not to…
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s solicitor attacked Gov. Bruce Rauner for filing a brief in support of the plaintiffs in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association U.S. Supreme Court case. Attorney General Lisa Madigan received over $2 million in direct political donations…
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…