FAQ - What effect does a Right To Work law have on a state’s standard of living?
Right to Work laws have significant beneficial effects on a state’s standard of living.
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FAQ - What's a So-Called "Free Rider"?
A so-called “free rider” is a misnomer devised by union officials seeking to force payments from people who want no part of the union. Forced unionism advocates use the term to demean employees who do not pay for unwanted monopoly…
FAQs - What is the National Right To Work Act (NRTWA)?
The ultimate solution to private-sector compulsory union dues is the National Right to Work Act. This legislation simply deletes from federal law those passages in the current law that authorize Big Labor to force workers to pay union dues…
FAQs - What is the Freedom from Union Violence Act (FUVA)?
The Freedom from Union Violence Act simply eliminates Big Labor’s special exemption from Hobbs Act anti-extortion laws. Passage of the Freedom from Union Violence Act would address the widespread and continuing problem of union violence, which is actually encouraged by…
FAQ - What is 14(b)?
Section 14(b) of the federal Taft-Hartley Act grants every state and U.S. Territory the ability to enact Right to Work laws prohibiting compulsory union membership dues and “fees” as a condition of employment. The 1935 National Labor Relations Act…
FAQ - What's a Right To Work Law?
A Right to Work law guarantees that no person can be compelled, as a condition of employment, to join or pay dues or “fees” to a labor union. Such a law also reaffirms and strengthens the existing federal labor-law…
October 2019 National Right To Work Newsletter Summary
You can go here to read the October 2019 National Right to Work Newsletter.
FAQs - What's the Right To Work Principle?
The Right to Work principle –- the guiding concept of the National Right to Work Committee –- affirms the right of every American to work for a living without being compelled to affiliate with a union. Compulsory unionism in…
Resolved: Children Aren’t NEA Dons’ ‘Priority’
“For decades, with the National Committee's leadership, Right to Work members have successfully opposed Big Labor schemes to repeal or gut the state statutes in North Carolina and Virginia that expressly prohibit any government-sector bargaining,” noted Mr. Kalb. “And according to a carefully documented 2018 study for the Cato Institute, states that expressly prohibit or at least do not statutorily authorize monopoly bargaining in K-12 public education typically do a better job of educating schoolchildren at a more reasonable cost to taxpayers.”