Union-label Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other New York politicians are feeling the heat. The Albany-based Empire Center for Public Policy’s recent analyses of out-of-control overtime costs at New York City’s taxpayer-funded Metropolitan…
‘Billing Taxpayers For Union Work Is Our Right’ Veterans Affairs human resources officer Jacquelyn Hayes-Byrd: Union “official time” harms sick veterans. Credit: VA.GOV So-Called ‘Official Time’ Negatively Affects Patient Care Less than a week after Donald Trump was elected as…
Janus, in which Right to Work staff attorney Bill Messenger (right, pictured here with Committee President Mark Mix) was the plaintiff’s lead counsel, established one key thing: Government-sector forced union fees are unconstitutional. Freedom of Association Only Partially Protected Government…
n a 2014 open letter to Alabama teacher union officials, former state teacher union President Paul Hubbert admitted that the loss of automatic “payroll deduction” privileges was a key reason the union’s finances were deteriorating rapidly. Credit: AP file photo/…
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…
According to the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, state and local taxes combined consume a total of 12.2% of New Jersey residents’ personal income. That’s the third heaviest state-local tax burden in the U.S. And, as a news analysis appearing…
This year, Right to Work legislative staffers will confer with members of the Virginia state Senate and House of Delegates to discuss the best way to move forward legislation barring public employers from cutting deals to compensate public employees or third parties for union activities.
Chicago Buckling Under the Weight of Government-Union-Boss Abuses (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) A little over a century after it was memorialized by poet Carl Sandburg as the “City of the Big Shoulders,” Chicago is struggling…
Even in Right to Work states, where Big Labor lacks compulsory-dues privileges, government union officials often wield inordinate power in the policy-making process. And taxpayers, students and other people who depend on public services, and independent-minded employees whose interests don’t…