Big Labor History Flashback The American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO (AFT) which benefits dramatically from government employee forced dues at one time was opposed to representing both administrators and teachers. From the New York Times, Aug 19, 1959 report from…
When Forbes studied The Best States for Business and Careers, Indiana ranked 34th. Indiana ranked 49th in economic growth prospects. A Right To Law Act would change its 49th ranking. The…
Indiana Right to Work in 2012? It is looking more likely that the Indiana Governor, House, and Senate are going to bring workplace freedom to Hoosiers and sign into law a Right to Work Act next year. From Mary…
The state legislature in North Carolina passed a resolution imploring the Democratic National Committee to respect the state’s Right to Work law: N.C. lawmakers are poised to approve a nonbinding resolution to ask the convention to change its rules and “respect…
Big Labor’s courtship with the Occupy Wall Street radicals continues to grow as union bosses of the AFL-CIO approved a resolution calling on its members to treat Occupy encampments in the District and Baltimore as they would a formal picket line.
Another worker is protected from big labor coercion, thanks to your support and the lawyers at the National Right to Work Foundation: A Coca-Cola employee who was fired for refusing to pay union dues has won a settlement of $4,175, the…
California Gov. Jerry Brown shocked his Big Labor allies by vetoing SEIU-backed legislation that would unionize baby-sitters in the Golden State. The SEIU bosses issued a statement that they were “devastated” by the news.
The National Right to Work Act has been introduced in both the U.S. Senate (S. 504) and House of Representatives (H.R. 2040). What's next is up to Right to Work supporters like you. If you haven't done so already, please send your senators an e-mail expressing your support for freedom and the National Right To Work Act. Then, please forward this message to friends, family, and other like-minded citizens and ask them to sign the petition as well. It's absolutely vital we turn up the heat on every member of Congress. As you know, this legislation would enshrine the common-sense principle – already enforced in 22 states – that no worker should be compelled to join or pay dues to a union just to get or keep a job. In an age of legislative overreach, this is one of the shortest bills ever introduced. A National Right to Work Act does not add a single word to federal law. It simply removes language in the National Labor Relations Act that gives union bosses the power to extract dues and fees from nonunion workers. And as we've seen in Wisconsin, Indiana, and elsewhere so far this year, the union bosses will do anything to protect their government-granted forced-dues powers. That's why your actions are vital. Please Act Today! 21 U.S. Senate Sponsors of National Right To Work Act (S. 504):
Writing for the Fiscal Times, Liz Peek details how big labor and their big spending were able to hijack Ohio: Governor John Kasich, elected in 2010 and bequeathed an $8 billion budget gap. Like other governors across the country, Kasich took on the public employee unions, demanding limits to collective bargaining, voluntary payment of union dues and greater worker contributions towards pensions and healthcare. Having been battered in New Jersey, Wisconsin and even labor-friendly New York, union Bigs mobilized, eliciting millions in contributions from national unions like the SEIU in New York ($1 million), the AFL-CIO in D.C. ($1.5 million) and the National Education Association in D.C. ($2 million). Spending an estimated $30 million, organized labor is expected to have defeated Governor Kasich’s reforms. This script did not have to written.Near the end of the eighteenth century, agents of the Ohio Company established a new township along the Hockhocking River. They called it Athens, to remind settlers from the young United States of their debt to Greek democracy – an homage unlikely to be repeated any time soon. Watching the ongoing destruction of the Greek economy, we marvel at the depth of the country’s financial chasm, smugly secure that it couldn’t happen here. Surely, our citizens would prevent the soaring government spending and impossible promises to public workers that lie at the root of Greece’s collapse. The union juggernaut is a tragedy -- not yet a tragedy on the scale of Greece – but a scene from the same script. At the heart of the debt problems confronting Greece and other EU countries, and challenging the governments of Ohio and many other states, is the aging of our populations combined with the generous pensions and healthcare packages awarded to public sector workers. Seeking campaign support from unions, politicians for decades have paid to play.