Just last year, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed legislation granting government union bosses “exclusive” representation control over an additional 20,000 public employees. Image: Andrew Davey, previously published in Nevada Today In recent weeks, tax revenues have plummeted across the country…
Exclusive Representation bestows on union bosses the monopoly privilege to control the negotiations over wages and working conditions for every employee in the bargaining unit. “Exclusive representation” prevents employees who oppose Big Labor from bargaining with their employer on…
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…
If the Supreme Court rules for Mark Janus and his Right to Work-led legal team, union financial support will become voluntary for millions of currently forced dues-paying public servants — and Big Labor will howl! Credit: Tom Kay, adapted by…
This summer, law enforcement officials in Stamford, Conn., responded to a sharp increase in drug overdose deaths in their jurisdiction by furnishing police with Narcan kits, which can be life-saving in emergency situations caused by opioid abuse. But government union…
Hefty Paychecks Distributed to ‘Employees’ Who Didn’t Earn Them For half a century, Evan Cotten has worked as a longshore clerk on the docks of Port Tampa Bay in Florida. And he is a longtime dues-paying union member. Last…
As eminent labor-law scholar Clyde Summers recognized, union officials “want unchallenged control over all aspects of the [workplace] contract, including its grievance procedure and arbitration which they created.” Image: University of Pennsylvania Law School Late last month, a group of…
According to whistleblower Evan Cotten, top bosses of the ILA Local 1402 union took no noticeable action regarding his complaints about paychecks going out to fake employees for months. Finally, he went to the media. Image: WFLA-TV (NBC) — Tampa,…