A few hours before Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday, University of Michigan-Flint economist and American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Perry challenged the President to show he is “really serious about job creation.” Drawing on…
Use of Pure Michigan logo suspended in ads touting right-to-work lawThe Detroit News… print ads in trade journals and regional newspapers in Chicago, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., targeting site selection companies as well as using social media…
Unions to courts: 23 right-to-work states are wrong!The Detroit News (blog)The state law authorizes a civil fine of up to $500 for forcing or trying to compel an employee to financially support…
An Ingham County judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s right-to-work law. The Lansing State Journal reports that Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina rejected the suit on Monday because it should have been filed directly with the state Court of Appeals.
Organized Labor in Philadelphia “has a long history of intimidation, harassment, vandalism, violence — and impunity,” reports Jillian K. Melchior of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity a few paragraphs into a three-part investigation appearing in National Review…
Unions take Michigan right-to-work fight to federal courtsThe Detroit NewsThe state law authorizes a civil fine of up to $500 for forcing or trying to compel an employee to financially support a labor union, which is barred…
Labor unions file suit to try to overturn Michigan right-to-work lawThe Detroit NewsThat lawsuit seeks to invalidate the public and private sector right-to-work laws on grounds the Legislature violated the Open Meetings Act while the state police…
In Vermont, private-sector and many government union bosses have long wielded the power to get employees fired for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union. However, freedom-loving state citizens, assisted by the National Right to Work Committee…
EDITORIAL: Bring up right to workWashington TimesThese laws basically ensure no person can be compelled as a condition of employment to join or pay dues to a labor union. Contrary to the…