‘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,”…
The National Right to Work’s Michigan class action case on behalf of 50,000 home childcare was given the green light by the U.S. Supreme Court today. In this scheme, similar to the scheme in the Harris v. Quinn case, former…
Kate Andrews details how New York state labor laws make it impossible to prosecute abusive state workers: The New York Times released a follow-up report, revealing that only 25% of NY state home-workers found guilty of abusing disabled and mentally ill patients…
During his six years as Maryland governor, Big Labor politician Martin O’Malley has repeatedly pushed for passage of and signed into law measures expanding the power of the Free State’s government union officials to force public servants to fork over…
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and members of the state legislature will force thousands of home health care workers into unions if a judge allows the scheme to go into place. The legislature, in a blatant payback to the SEIU and AFSCME…
The liberal Minnesota Star Tribune takes state Democrats to task for trying to reward union bosses with the forced unionization of Minnesota child care providers: If a child care provider union comes to pass, some of the $207 million…
In a commentary published this Monday (see the link below), Washington Post writer Charles Lane observes that an “appalling” scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center offers Marylanders a lesson that “experience elsewhere has already taught many times”: Good governance…