As a consequence of Big Labor’s compulsory dues-financed lobbying successes, states that give more special privileges to public-sector union officials have routinely burdened their citizens with more debt as well as heavier taxation. Union Boss-Dominated, Knee-Deep in Debt Right to…
What are Janus Rights? The “all-star” attorney who “changed the world” when he argued and won at the Supreme Court in Janus v. AFSCME answers and explains your related constitutional rights. The audio is taken from a Delaware radio interview…
Janus, in which Right to Work staff attorney Bill Messenger (right, pictured here with Committee President Mark Mix) was the plaintiff’s lead counsel, established one key thing: Government-sector forced union fees are unconstitutional. Freedom of Association Only Partially Protected Government…
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorney and Janus case Counsel of Record Bill Messenger: The Supreme Court would be ill-advised to allow public-sector forced fees to continue “effectively as a form of protection money . . . .”…
According to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, statutes empowering government union kingpins like Alex Caputo-Pearl to create state crises serve “important interests of public employers across the nation.” Credit: Katie Falkenberg/Los Angeles Times Does California Attorney General Love Union Don-Created…
‘In Practice, You Can’t Enforce the First Amendment Half-Way’ Four decades ago, when it first considered a National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-backed challenge to the constitutionality of government-sector forced unionism, the U.S. Supreme Court tried to “split the…
For years, government union monopolists have been ripping off ordinary taxpayers in Illinois, a state where both private- and public-sector employees may be forced to pay Big Labor dues or fees as a job condition, in a host of ways.
New Jersey NEA Chief Backs Trillion-Dollar Federal ‘Loan Program’ (source: National Right To Work September 2015 Newsletter) For decades, many government union chieftains across America have enjoyed what effectively amounts to the ability to “elect our own boss,”…