Despite the fact it is now clearly helping increase workers’ spendable incomes, top AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka claims workers are somehow being “hurt” by the tax cut package adopted late last year. Credit: Mike Segar-Reuters Union Officials Fume as American…
Congressional Sponsorship of H.R.785 and S.545 Has Topped 100 In September alone, 29 U.S. House members signed on as cosponsors of H.R.785. Among the new cosponsors that month were Mimi Walters (R-Calif., inset left), Francis Rooney (R-Fla., center), and Luke…
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)…
Early this year, dozens of Annapolis High School (AHS) teachers pleaded in writing to the hierarchy of the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County union (TAAAC/NEA) not to push through a contract that cuts their compensation. But their pleas were…
In all, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers union President Newton Jones and his wife, brother and son raked in roughly $1.6 million in forced dues-funded IBB salaries and “reimbursements” last year alone. Meanwhile, rank-and-file jobs are disappearing. Image: IBB In…
The Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) of 1947, whose lead Senate sponsor was Robert Taft (R-Ohio), provides for an array of circumstances under which union bosses may lawfully be denied the privilege of seizing money from union nonmembers as a…
Year after year, vast numbers of employees across America get paid less as a consequence of union-boss political and bargaining-table schemes. And union-label academics like New York University law professor Cynthia Estlund (pictured) insist that Big Labor officials actually have…
From the 1999-2000 through the 2014-15 school years, enrollment in charter schools across the U.S. skyrocketed from 300,000 to 2.9 million. Charters are public institutions that furnish their services to K-12 schoolchildren free of charge, but are subject to fewer…