Part of Don Brunell’s job as president of the Association of Washington Business, the Evergreen State chamber of commerce, is to accentuate the positive regarding the employment climate in his home state. But Brunell can’t help but notice that more…
Over the years, teacher union bosses have concocted a wide array of unseemly ways to make money off of teachers, but officers of the Clark County Education Association (CCEA/NSEA/NEA) union in Nevada warrant special attention for their creative greed. As…
Jim Huffman, the dean emeritus of Lewis & Clark Law School, argues persuasively that the US Circuit Court’s unanimous decision against President Obama’s three illegal appointment to the NLRB was absolutely correctly decided: The Obama administration’s…
A group of state legislators proposed a package of bills today that would make Pennsylvania a Right to Work state by ending compulsory unionism and the payment of union dues by non-union members in both the public and private…
In a new commentary for Forbes, economic demographer Joel Kotkin elucidates why the states of “the old Confederacy,” which just happen to all be Right to Work states, have “long-term economic prospects” that “shine bright.” Meanwhile, none of the declining states in…
Click here to download a copy Right to Work Activism Spreading Like Wildfire — Victories in Indiana, Michigan Build Momentum in Other States Big Labor…
In the three-quarters of a century since the deflationary 1930’s ended, long-term union contracts have virtually always resulted in employees getting lower pay and benefits over time than short-term union contracts. When union officials’ aim really is higher compensation for…
Last Friday, Standard & Poor announced its latest downgrading of forced-unionism Illinois’s fiscal status. The Prairie State now has an S&P credit level of A-, putting it in a tie with Big Labor-controlled California for 49th in the country. But…
Blogging for National Review Online late last week (see the link below), the Heritage Foundation’s James Sherk furnished an especially outrageous example of how Big Labor often wields its government-granted monopoly bargaining power in ways that hurt employees economically. Big…