On November 30, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a request from the Obama Administration that U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli be allowed to participate in the High Court oral arguments now scheduled for the morning of January 11, 2016. The…
Government Union Czars Intend to Squelch Right to Work Momentum (source: October 2014 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) It was 55 years ago last month that Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Gaylord Nelson,…
Mark Mix: Decision Should Encourage Legislators Across the Nation (Article first appeared in the September 2014 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) Government union bosses have spent more than three years and millions of…
Even many critics of teacher union officials give them too much credit by assuming that what they stand for, above all, is higher pay and more lavish benefits for educators. The fact is, what top bosses of the National Education…
When given a choice, workers often choose not to be in a union. In Wisconsin, thousands of public sector workers have dropped their labor union membership since Gov. Scott Walker’s reforms have taken effect. According to the…
As Rick Callahan of the Associated Press recently reported (see the link below), Fort Wayne, the Hoosier State’s second-largest city, is close to approving legislation that would revoke many municipal union bosses’ monopoly-bargaining privileges. Under Indiana law, cities, towns and…
An important part of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s Act 10 reforms to many of our members was providing teachers and other government employees the Right to Work. The freedom from forced-union dues that Right to Work provides is like a…
Big Labor Victories Curtail Dissenting Employees’ Free Speech (click to download newsletter) In November 2012, roughly 63 million Americans nationwide voted against the winning candidate for U.S.
Tim Stanley is a British historian and pundit who writes mostly about the U.S. In a recent commentary for The Daily Telegraph in London, Stanley calls attention to the success of Wisconsin’s Act 1o, a nearly three-year-old budget reform package…