Incoming Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield (Levering) has publicly opposed Right to Work destruction. Credit: U.P. Politico/Wikimedia Commons Right to Work Consolidates Recent State Gains Bids to Bring Back Forced Dues Will Be ‘Categorically’ Rejected Thanks to recent progress made…
If a guilty plea recently entered by former auto executive Michael Brown (inset) is accurate, it almost certainly shows that now-UAW President Gary Jones was involved in a conspiracy to pilfer money from a worker training fund. Credit: Forbes…
Four-and-a-half decades ago, government union boss Victor Gotbaum acknowledged that, in the public sector, Big Labor determines who sits on one side of the bargaining table, and heavily influences who sits on the other. Credit: AP File Photo ‘We Have…
As readers can ascertain just from the hyperlinked headline below, an editorial appearing in the Albuquerque Journal yesterday doesn’t make for pleasant reading. But it does add to the mountain of evidence that former New Mexico Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson…
Big government’s labor union, AFSCME, is using its forced union dues resources to full effect spending nearly $3 million to help their favorite candidates for Senate — Sen. Jon Tester, Rep. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV). AFSCME is…
Big government’s labor union, AFSCME, is using its forced union dues resources to full effect spending nearly $3 million to help their favorite candidates for Senate — Sen. Jon Tester, Rep. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV). AFSCME is…
The embattled government workers’ union, AFSCME, elected its Secretary-Treasurer, Lee Saunders, as its next union boss after a bitter election that focused in part on whether the union should play aggressively in…
In a blow to Big Labor's continual push to make forced unionism the default position, unions will now have to ask people to sign up rather than require employees to figure out how to protect their paychecks from unwanted union confiscation. From Pioneer Press' Patrick Marley MADISON, Wisconsin -- State unions were dealt a setback Friday when a federal judge said they would have to get their members to opt in, rather than opt out, to having the state deduct union dues from their paychecks. What's more, the judge did not rule on dues deductions for unions that he earlier found the state improperly decertified. The state's largest unions were decertified, and the ruling -- at least for now -- will make it harder for them to get money from dues. But U.S. District Court Judge William Conley gave unions one beneficial ruling by saying that members who sign up to have their dues deducted from their paychecks can be required to make a yearlong commitment.