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,…
So-called “project labor agreements,” or PLAs, effectively force nonunion companies wishing to participate in public works to impose union monopoly bargaining on their current employees and hire new workers through union boss-controlled hiring halls. (CREDIT: WWW.LABORISSUESSOLUTIONS.COM) Obama Edict Still Stacking…
Early this year, dozens of Annapolis High School (AHS) teachers pleaded in writing to the hierarchy of the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County union (TAAAC/NEA) not to push through a contract that cuts their compensation. But their pleas were…
Pennsylvania law professor Clyde Summers admitted that, under labor statutes empowering union officials to negotiate terms of employment for nonmembers as well as members, workers who don’t want a union are often “made worse off” than they were before. But…
As a consequence of a public-safety workforce that is “hamstrung by [Big Labor] work rules,” security practices at the nation’s “highest-value terrorist target,” the World Trade Center complex, have long been and remain today “profoundly deficient at every level, in…
If government union bosses in New Jersey follow through on their threat to launch a transit strike this weekend, it’s estimated that 65,000 daily rail commuters to and from New York City will be left without a dependable way to…
Largely as a consequence of California statutes granting government union officials extensive monopoly privileges over public servants, cities and towns located across the Golden State find themselves in dire financial straits today, even though tax revenues have rebounded smartly since…
From the 1999-2000 through the 2014-15 school years, enrollment in charter schools across the U.S. skyrocketed from 300,000 to 2.9 million. Charters are public institutions that furnish their services to K-12 schoolchildren free of charge, but are subject to fewer…
But Productive Unionized Workers Chafe Under ‘Wage Ceilings’ (Click here to download the April 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) At a press conference early in his first term in office, President Barack Obama articulated what he insisted…