Matthew Leen Archives - National Right To Work Committee

There is No Excuse for Forced Unionism

Award-Winning Teacher Could Likely Have Earned More Without a Union Professor Tang rejected Harvard law professor and former union lawyer Ben Sachs’s far-fetched assumption that the fact that some employees benefit economically from being subject to union monopoly control somehow implies that all employees benefit. To illustrate the point, Mr. Tang cited the case of Sean McComb, a “Baltimore English teacher who was named National Teacher of the Year in 2014” at the age of 30.

May 21

American Dream Alive and Well in Right To Work States

More Affordable Homes Just One of a Host of Right to Work Economic Advantages “Of course,” Mr. Leen added “housing authorizations are only one of manifold pieces of evidence pointing to higher living standards and faster economic growth in Right to Work states.”

December 4

Which States Will Pass Right To Work in 2019?

A new bus factory in Shepherdsville that is expected to employ more than 500 people by next year is just one example of the opportunity-creating business investments Right to Work Kentucky is attracting. Credit: WDRB-TV (Louisville, Ky.) Right to Work…

October 26

Big Labor Bosses Target Nevada Right To Work Law

Right to Work ‘May as Well Be’ on the Ballot Silver State’s 66-Year Ban on Compulsory Union Dues in Jeopardy Union bosses are publicly boasting that their successful campaign to overturn Missouri’s 18-month-old Right to Work law this…

October 4

Right to Work States Dominate Auto Production

Excluding the four states that banned forced unionism between 2012 and 2016, the share of all automotive production occurring in Right to Work states rose from 42% in 2006 to 55% in 2016. South Carolina BMW Plant Employment Projected to…

April 16

‘Made in U.S.’ Cars & Trucks Made Union-Free

The rapid expansion of union-free automotive manufacturing employment in the U.S. over the past 35 years, and especially over the past quarter-century, has occurred overwhelmingly in states with Right to Work laws. Credit: Rogelio V. Solis-AP Market Share of UAW…

April 6

Trump Labor Board May Be Hobbled For Years

Last fall, Trump appointee William Emanuel recused himself from 98 cases now before the NLRB. Most of Obama Appointees’ Anti-Right to Work Legacy Safe For Now? After the U.S. Senate confirmed President Trump’s nominations of Marvin Kaplan and William Emanuel…

March 24

Former AFL-CIO President Supports Right to Work

Forced Dues-Seizing Union Dons ‘Disconnected’ From Rank and File Thanks to years of careful preparation and hard work by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys and their employee clients, there is a strong possibility that, within the…