Forced unionism is hugely unpopular with ordinary Americans regardless of their party affiliation. But presumptive 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has time and again proclaimed her support for it. Image: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty AFL-CIO union czar Richard Trumka, Service Employees…
More court rulings confirming Michigan Right To Work protections — From the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation: Two Rulings Reject Union Boss Attempts to Attack Michigan Employees’ Right to Work without Paying Union Dues…
As Right to Work advocates have documented again and again, compulsory unionism is negatively correlated with job growth, income growth, and GDP growth. Slower growth in jobs, incomes and production aren’t good for anybody, but IRS data regarding the adjusted…
Professional movie critics overwhelmingly share the rabidly pro-Big Labor politics of the new Hollywood biopic of the much-praised, but little-understood farmworkers union cofounder and comandante Cesar Chavez. But few can bring themselves actually to like Cesar Chavez: History Is Made…
From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune (4/16/1976): A stolen yellow forklift charged through the Jupiter Chemical Co. construction site and ravaged two office trailers like a bull goring a matador. First one and then the other was ripped open. Three men…
An item posted on the AFL-CIO web site yesterday (see the link below) boasts about how Big Labor and its front groups successfully led the charge for passage this week of a New Jersey ballot measure hiking the state’s minimum…
In the 2013 edition of their Union Membership and Earnings Data Book, labor economists Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson report data showing that, from 2002 to 2012, unionized employment in motor-vehicle and motor-vehicle-equipment manufacturing fell from roughly 413,700 to 208,000,…
Surprise, Surprise, President Obama's new NLRB nominees spent their working years at big labor trying to enact the Card Check Forced Unionism Scheme: One of President Barack Obama’s new National Labor Relations Board nominees dedicated her career at the AFL-CIO to doing away with secret ballots in labor elections—a tactic critics say would make it easier to unionize and expose employees to intimidation. Nancy Schiffer spent nearly three decades as a union attorney in a career that took her from Detroit’s United Auto Workers to associate general counsel at the AFL-CIO, a Democratic power broker that spent $30 million on the 2012 election. Schiffer took the lead in many unionization efforts across the country and has spent the past few years trying to do away with the secret ballot in union elections. “[Card check] is needed to address a severe violation of human rights,” she testified to the House Education and Workforce Committee in 2004.