Lawmakers in Denver Hear the Case for a State Right to Work Law Until recently, Robert Blackwell, an employee of the Pueblo, Colo.-based company Colorado Fire Sprinkler, was a victim of a scheme to force workers into union membership without…
The Governor can act this week to VETO these bills. A Northam Veto will allow state, county, and city officials to focus their planning on the way forward during this crisis. Otherwise, they will need to deal with new burdens…
National Right To Work President Committee Mark Mix warns Gov. Northam that now is not the time for political paybacks that will add to the financial burdens of Virginians and negatively impact the state’s economy. Now is the time to…
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“The politicians voting for the PRO Act in the face of public opposition to compulsory unionism that is now as overwhelming and passionate as it ever has been can be expected to face harsh electoral repercussions in 2020 and beyond,” predicted Mr. Mix
Unfortunately, Virginia state Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw (D-Fairfax) and state House of Delegates Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Springfield) don’t think they should have to wait for the grave doubts about the constitutionality (Roanoke Times Opinion) In 2018, the U.S.
Thanks largely to aggressive grass-roots activism by members of the National Right to Work Committee, the number of congressional cosponsors of the forced-dues repeal legislation introduced in the U.S. House and Senate early this year continues to rise. S.525 and H.R.2571, respectively introduced early in the 2019-20 Congress by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), had a combined total of nearly 100 sponsors as this Newsletter went to press in early October. These essentially identical bills would not add a single word to federal labor law. Instead, they would simply repeal the current provisions in the federal code that authorize and promote the termination of employees for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union.
“Among the 17 states with the highest share of public employees under union monopoly control,” noted Mr. Mix, “state and local taxes combined consumed 11.0% of all personal income in 2016.