After failing for the past three decades to secure monopoly-bargaining privileges at any foreign-owned auto-assembly plant in the U.S., United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union bosses are now claiming they are on the verge of success at the Volkswagen plant in…
The Hill reports Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) introduced legislation that would prevent actions taken by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) since last year from having any effect until the courts sort out whether President Obama’s appointments to that board…
Desperate to please AFL-CIO czar Richard Trumka and other union bosses, the Obama Administration is now poised to put up a “union Berlin wall” to deter business investment in Right to Work states. Credit: Pool/Getty Images North America…
The American Thinker examines how big teachers union have become impediments for needed education reform: American public education may be in crisis, but teachers are fairly happy with their lives, according to a new Gallup poll: The…
It’s been roughly three months since a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that three putative “recess” appointments union-label President Barack Obama had made to the powerful, five-member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in…
In an analysis this week for the Daily Beast (see the link below), economic demographer Joel Kotkin deploys plenty of facts and figures to rebut the notion, still espoused by many journalists, planners and pundits, that “old-style, high-density” cities like…
Earlier this week, Washington Examiner opinion writer Sean Higgins reviewed Wisconsin Labor Department data to get an updated picture on how the state’s government union bosses are faring in the wake of Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011 budget-repair law…
In a new commentary for The Freeman (see the link below), pro-Right to Work economist Charles Baird opines that, with the adoption last year of the 23rd and 24th state Right to Work laws in Indiana and Michigan (!), respectively,…
Margaret Thatcher passed away early today. It’s been nearly a quarter-century since the “Iron Lady” stepped down as Great Britain’s prime minister, but, as Reason Magazine contributor Ira Stoll observes in the commentary linked below, she remains highly relevant…