Right to Work North of the Border
The Huffington Post — a liberal, pro-big labor website — looks at the efforts to allow Right to Work protections in Canada: Canada is the “only nation on earth” that allows forced union dues payments, the president…
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'Obama Appointed Them Before the Senate Could Even [Hold] Hearings'
In a column posted last night (see the link below) and appearing in print this morning, Washington Examiner senior editorial writer Sean Higgins predicts that today the U.S. Senate’s HELP Committee will rubber-stamp Big Labor President Barack Obama’s slate of…
Monopolistic Union Contracts 'Often Limit Workers to Single, Repetitive Tasks, Increasing Labor Costs'
In the current issue of USA Today, Paul Davidson reports that, for a variety of reasons, the U.S. “is becoming a manufacturing hotbed for dozens of foreign companies in aerospace, energy, chemicals and other sectors.” (See the link below for…
Filibuster Rules in Peril
All hands on deck. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is preparing to use the “nuclear option” to limit the Senate’s filibuster rules, according to the Washington Post. Big labor is demanding such a change which would destroy the rights…
Six Freed From Compulsory Unionism
Thanks to the assistance of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, six workers will no longer have union fees taken from the paychecks after they filed unfair labor practice charges alleging a violation of the Indiana’s newly minted…
Constitution's Recess-Appointments Clause Preserves the Senate's 'Advice-and-Consent Power by Limiting the President's Unilateral Appointment Power'
Late last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit became the second federal appeals court to rule that President Barack Obama had exceeded his constitutional authority in order to install pro-forced unionism radicals on the powerful, five-member…
Court Smacks NLRB Again
President Obama’s recess appointments have been ruled unconstitutional once again by a second court, but that does not seem to phase the NLRB, which takes its orders from Big Labor bosses. Tal Kopan has the story in Politico. The issue has far-reaching implications for…
Overreaching for Big Labor
The liberal Minnesota Star Tribune takes state Democrats to task for trying to reward union bosses with the forced unionization of Minnesota child care providers: If a child care provider union comes to pass, some of the $207 million…
'Unfunded Future Pension and Healthcare Liabilities Are Future Taxes That Are at This Point Unknown'
Even many state policymakers who acknowledge that the hate-the-boss class warfare waged by bosses of private sector unions has a detrimental impact on business investment and job creation discount the fact that government union-boss excesses typically cause the same problems.