On Monday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein cleared the way for Stockton, Calif., to file for bankruptcy, as the city of nearly 300,000 has been seeking to do for nine months. As of last summer, after trying for three years…
U.S. Census Bureau data have long shown a substantial net migration out of states in which employees may be compelled to join a union or pay union dues as a job condition to states that protect the individual employee’s freedom…
Mike Antonucci of the Education Intelligence Agency offers an excellent report (see the link below) on the latest news regarding the state of Indiana’s lawsuit against the National Education Association teacher union-affiliated Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) for “unlawful sale…
Michigan’s Right to Work law went into effect yesterday, but not for some employees thanks to last minute deals like this one. With only hours to spare before workers under two city contracts were about to be given the freedom to choose to…
Today the ban on forced union dues and fees adopted by legislators in Lansing, and signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder, last December takes effect. That means Michigan is now officially America’s 24th Right to Work state. The primary…
Newly reported and revised U.S. Commerce Department data out today confirm that forced-unionism Illinois has one of the worst track records in the country for private-sector compensation growth over the past decade. After adjusting for inflation using the CPI-U, Illinois’s…
A year ago last month, then-Gov. Mitch Daniels signed into law a measure making Indiana America’s 23rd Right to Work state. This came to pass only because thousands of determined Hoosier had labored for years, with the National Right to…
Regardless of their general opinion of Pennsylvania Democratic politician Michael Nutter, the people of Philadelphia undoubtedly agree overwhelmingly that, as their duly elected mayor, he should be able to address the city council without being drowned out by a mob.
One especially ugly aspect of the National Labor Relations and Railway Labor Acts (NLRA and RLA) and state laws affecting public-sector employees that are modeled after them is that they actively encourage employers to treat employees’ freedom of choice as…