In all, IBB 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. (credit: INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF BOILERMAKERS) Retired Boilermaker’s…
Surrounded by Pennsylvania mining employees, President Trump signs his deregulatory “Promoting Energy Independence” Executive Order. Mining-sector jobs have rebounded rapidly during his administration’s early months. (PHOTO JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Employment Surges as Obama ‘Killer’ Regulations Are Lifted In May 2008,…
Capitol Hill Sponsorship Reached 127 Before Thanksgiving Recess (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) Thanks to relentless grass-roots activism by members of the National Right to Work Committee, the number of congressional cosponsors of the forced-dues repeal…