$2 Million More for Political Ads
The SEIU, AFSCME and other groups will target 17 House Democrats with $1.7 million worth of television commercials pushing a government takeover of health care — all paid for with workers’ forced-dues money.
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Birmingham News Takes on Phony Card Check Arguments
From the Birmingham News: The good news for Alabama union membership is bad news for state and national union leaders. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of union members in Alabama increased fairly significantly from 2008…
Lars Larson Discusses Pitfalls of Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bills
On his nationally-syndicated radio show, Lars Larson discusses Big Labor’s Police and Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bills (H.R. 413, S. 1611)with The National Right to Work Committee Vice President Doug Stafford. The bills, which union bosses themselves call the greatest (potential)…
Toe the Line or Else!
The Hill reports that Big Labor bosses are making threats to Democrats who don’t toe the forced unionism line. Sen. Blanche Lincoln is the first target to feel the brunt of their new get tough campaign even…
Right-to-Work Laws = Liberty, Prosperity, and Quality of Life
Right-to-Work Laws: Liberty, Prosperity, and Quality of Life By Professor Richard Vedder (Condensed from the original 10-page Article appearing in the Cato Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter 2010). Produced by the Cato Institute. Richard Vedder is Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University.) The most essential ingredient embodied in the liberty championed by the classical liberal writers of the Enlightenment and beyond is individual choice and right of expression—the right of persons to say what they think, decide for themselves what groups that want to join, what religion that want to profess, what person they want to marry, what goods they want to buy or sell, and what persons they want to represent them where necessity requires collective decision making. One important economic dimension of individual liberty is the right to sell one’s labor services without attenuation—that is, without limits on the terms of the agreement (e.g., wage rates and hours of work), or who will represent the worker in reaching those terms. The eroding of employment liberty in the United States had begun before the 1930s … legislation in the early 1930s such as the Davis-Bacon Act and, to a lesser degree, the Norris-LaGuardia Act began to chip away at bargaining freedom, but it was the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act) that dramatically revolutionized employment contracts, severely restricting the freedom of workers and employers to reach individual bargaining arrangements.
It Must Be A Coincidence . .
The Los Angeles Times reports that two labor unions in California have spent a remarkable $318 million influencing public officials in the last decade. The Teacher Association spent $211.8 million and the California State Council of Service Employees spent…
Right to Work Key For Economic Recovery
Latest Data Show Exodus From Forced-Unionism States Continues (Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Without a doubt, much about the U.S. economy has changed since the real estate crash of 2007 and the extraordinary mortgage-loan crisis that soon followed in its…
Another ObamaCare Showdown Looms in Congress
Both House and Senate-Passed Measures Promote Forced Unionism (Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) In November, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly adopted one version of President Obama’s health-care “reform” (H.R.3962). And last month, exactly 60 (the minimum number necessary) U.S.
A Faster Track to Union-Boss Monopoly?
Obama Bureaucrats Keen to Help Herd Transport Workers Into Unions (Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Much that is written about American labor unions is misleading because it assumes they operate like other private, nonprofit organizations. In key respects, this assumption…