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…
“During World War II,” labor law authority Donald R. Richberg reports, “there had been over 13,000 strikes — a disgraceful record for ‘patriotic’ labor. In 1946, the first year of peace, the unions made an all-time record of 5,000 strikes,…
Is the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) representing mine workers at all? West Virginia needs a Right to Work Law so that the remaining working miners can stop being forced to support these anti-coal mining union bosses. (And, Obama’s…
How many federal employees does AFL-CIO Boss Dick Trumka control? Official Time creates a shadow government workforce controlled by union bosses and paid for by taxpayers. Taxpayer Paid No-Show Jobs From the…
Democrat gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer promises Big Labor Bosses: “I will repeal the Right to Work” freedoms and force Michigan employees to give you a cut out of their paychecks whether they like it or not! Like Obama,…
With Wisconsin state worker’s given the choice whether to pay union dues, some unions are failing to get enough support to re-certify, the Examiner reports: Wisconsin Association for Correctional Law Enforcement and the education unit of Council 24 of the American…
Amy Volk, a state representatives from Maine, makes an eloquent case why the state should adopt a Right to Work law: For years, an unhealthy alliance between Democratic politicians and labor…
Yesterday, Detroit, once a magnet for ambitious job seekers across the country, became the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy. As Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes discusses in the commentary linked below, a key factor in the Motor…
Writing on the WorkplaceChoice.org web site (see the link below), Trey Kovacs of the Competive Enterprise Institute discusses two reform measures recently introduced in Congress by U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.). The Freedom from Union Stalking Act (H.R.2472) and the…