In their opening paragraph, the Rebecca Friedrichs et al petition for a writ of certiorari (request for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case) cite two recent National Right to Work Foundation U.S. Supreme Court victories to…
Largely as a consequence of California statutes granting government union officials extensive monopoly privileges over public servants, cities and towns located across the Golden State find themselves in dire financial straits today, even though tax revenues have rebounded smartly since…
Union Lawyers Claim Teacher Forced Fees Are Constitutional (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) In early September, attorneys representing 10 independent-minded Golden State educators in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association presented the U.S. Supreme Court with bombshell…
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s solicitor attacked Gov. Bruce Rauner for filing a brief in support of the plaintiffs in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association U.S. Supreme Court case. Attorney General Lisa Madigan received over $2 million in direct political donations…
In Reality, NEA Union Bosses Oppose Higher Pay For Many Teachers (source: National Right to Work August 2015 Newsletter) At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up in its next term Friedrichs…
Executive Order Challenges ‘Unconstitutional’ Forced Union Fees (Click here to download the March 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) Last summer, thanks to the persistence and clear thinking of National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys and eight Illinois…
Federal Appeals Court Rules to Halt Implementation of Minnesota’s Childcare Unionization Scheme Childcare providers fight dictate to push them into forced union dues ranks Minneapolis, MN (September 19, 2013) – Today, a federal appeals court ruled to delay implementation…
A coalition of state employee union officials pushed to keep compulsory unionism and argued illogically that it was antithetical to freedom of speech. However, the court has embraced the argument that National Right to Work has made for decades —…
The Founding Father’s must be spinning in their graves at the thought that the First Amendment of the Constitution mandates coercion and confiscatory union dues payment to…