For decades, ordinary Mainers have been able to see right through Big Labor bosses’ flimsy excuses for compelling workers to support unions financially. But too many state lawmakers are still tunnel-visioned forced-dues apologists. (credit: BOB PALMER CARTOON ADAPTED BY NRTWC)…
Some Republicans like Tom Cole (Okla.) are suggesting it’s impossible to cut wasteful federal programs that subsidize union-boss schemes to force employees to pay union dues. But Mr. Cole and his cohorts are wrong. (credit: GETTY IMAGES) Trump Administration Requests…
An analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data conducted by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation shows the 26 states that still lacked Right to Work protections in 2014 had an average per capita government debt of $10,884, or more than $3400 higher…
The 2.8 million National Right to Work Committee members are now lobbying hard to build Capitol Hill support for H.R.785, and ultimately to persuade U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc., at podium) to allow a recorded floor vote on this…
When Walter Overstreet was working, union trustees who had access to his pension fund’s books never indicated to him he should have any reason to doubt he could safely retire. Now he and his wife face a huge cut in…
There is no doubt, as New York Times labor reporter Noam Scheiber said at the outset of a long and mostly unflattering article last weekend profiling Harold Schaitberger, the general president of the International Association of Fire Fighters union, that…
On Monday, raisin farmers and handlers Marvin and Laura Horne finally prevailed in a long battle they have waged in defense of what a U.S. Supreme Court majority now agrees is their constitutional right to sell raisins in interstate commerce…
“Time and again, federal prosecutors have amassed extensive evidence that Big Labor bosses have orchestrated, authorized, and/or ratified violence, vandalism and threats for the purpose of securing forced-dues contract clauses or other union demands."