What happens when teachers are given a choice whether to join a union?
Teachers in Kenosha, Wis., voted to decertify their union, the Kenosha Education Association, by a margin of nearly two to one. Only 37 percent of the teachers opted to retain the union in an election made possible by the labor reforms enacted under Gov. Scott Walker (R). The result goes to show that when workers have a choice on whether to join a union instead of being forced into one by law, they often choose to vote down the union.
Unfortunately, Virginia state Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw (D-Fairfax) and state House of Delegates Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Springfield) don’t think they…
New co-sponsors added to the growing list of members supporting the National Right To Work Act: Rep. Brett Guthrie (KY 02), Sen. Thom Tillis (NC) and Rep Michael Burgess (TX 26). Now there are 78 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives and 21 co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate. Are your Members Of Congress on this list?
Thanks largely to aggressive grass-roots activism by members of the National Right to Work Committee, the number of congressional cosponsors of the forced-dues repeal legislation introduced in the U.S. House and Senate early this year continues to rise. S.525 and H.R.2571, respectively introduced early in the 2019-20 Congress by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), had a combined total of nearly 100 sponsors as this Newsletter went to press in early October. These essentially identical bills would not add a single word to federal labor law. Instead, they would simply repeal the current provisions in the federal code that authorize and promote the termination of employees for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union.