Two years ago this month, government union bosses in the Badger State and nationwide suffered a major blow when the Wisconsin Legislature adopted, and Gov. Scott Walker signed into law, the budgetary and labor-policy reform measure commonly referred to as…
More and more elected officials across the country are coming to recognize the unsurprising fact that public policies promoting monopolistic unionism in the workplace are harmful to employees, employers and consumers. And laws empowering one union to act as the…
As he toured the country last year promoting Shadowbosses, an exposé of monopolistic government unionism he authored with his wife Elizabeth, professor and pundit Mallory Factor liked to characterize the Democratic Party, provocatively, as…
It’s been 90 days since lawmakers in Lansing approved legislation to make Michigan America’s 24th Right to Work state, but the statute prohibiting forced union dues and fees has yet to take effect. This is common practice. In the Wolverine…
An AP report out this morning (see the first link below) sounded the alarm about the fact that, for the first time ever, more than one in three counties across the U.S. are experiencing more deaths than births. As the…
Last week, American Interest blogger Walter Russell Mead commented on an extraordinary unfolding battle in the Golden State. As Mead explained in a March 6 post (linked below), the battle is a consequence of San Diego voters’ overwhelming approval last…
From the Muskegon Chronicle’s Steve Gunn: If they can extend their contracts for another two or three years, all their members will…
Matching bills introduced in the Texas House and Senate would amend the Texas right-to-work law to require that labor unions be elected in a secret ballot election by…
Lorain, Ohio is finding that union-only project labor agreements (PLAs) do not live up to union bosses’ promises. PLAs costs taxpayers both in taxes and time, estimates range from 31% to 60% increased costs on construction projects. Richard Payerchin from…