Government union bosses in Illinois wield such extensive monopoly privileges that it’s all but impossible for elected officials like Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to rein in exorbitant public employee compensation costs. That’s the key reason why Emanuel and other Prairie…
Yesterday, was the 19-year anniversary of the Teamster multiple stabbing of UPS driver Rod Carter. Teamsters Union Bosses primarily called the violent strike primarily to force UPS to remain in a Teamster-run multi-employer Ponzi-scheme pension fund.
Here is where you can find the August 2016 National Right to Work Newsletter.
Since the beginning of 2013, Indiana’s unemployment rate has plummeted even as its labor force has expanded by nearly 187,000. A significant share of the credit must be given to the Right to Work law adopted in early 2012, which,…
(Pending anti-Right to Work litigation filed by Harvard Professor Ben Sachs [pictured above] and a team of union lawyers assumes monopoly-bargaining privileges are worth nothing to union bosses. But even President Obama’s radical National Labor Relations Board knows that’s…
Pro-forced unionism academic Nelson Lichtenstein has actually contended that Right to Work laws represent “an ideological onslaught [against unions] of the first order,” because under such laws the rights of workers who oppose unionization are “given the same moral weight…
According to the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, state and local taxes combined consume a total of 12.2% of New Jersey residents’ personal income. That’s the third heaviest state-local tax burden in the U.S. And, as a news analysis appearing…
Forced unionism is hugely unpopular with ordinary Americans regardless of their party affiliation. But presumptive 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has time and again proclaimed her support for it. Image: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty AFL-CIO union czar Richard Trumka, Service Employees…
Truman Vetoes Taft-Hartley and its Right to Work Protections National Labor Relations Act (NLRA): In 1935, the Federal government forced all states to allow unions to…