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Even When Big Labor Can't Collect Forced Fees, It Guards Its Monopoly-Bargaining Privileges Zealously

Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court alarmed government union bosses across the country when it found, in Harris v. Quinn, that Big Labor Illinois politicians had violated the First Amendment by seeking to compel and actually compelling home personal care…

February 26

So-Called 'Burden' of Monopoly Bargaining Is Actually Optional

With the passage of a Right to Work measure by the state Senate last night, it is likely Wisconsin will become the 25th state to prohibit private-sector compulsory union dues and fees within the next week or so. But while…

April 1

New Mexico Case Illustrates Why Many Conscientious Workers Shun the AFSCME Union

As readers can ascertain just from the hyperlinked headline below, an editorial appearing in the Albuquerque Journal yesterday doesn’t make for pleasant reading. But it does add to the mountain of evidence that former New Mexico Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson…

March 27

Government Union Bosses Hurt the Workers They Purport to 'Represent' as Well as Taxpayers

In the wake of Detroit’s entry into Chapter 9 bankruptcy last December and serial municipal bankruptcies in California since 2008, more and more Americans have a basic understanding about the detrimental impact monopolistic government unionism routinely has on public finances…

February 17

President Obama Forgot All About the VW Workers in Chattanooga

For reasons I won’t discuss here, Volkswagen (VW) executives have been so biased in favor of United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union officials’ campaign to secure monopoly-bargaining privileges over employees at the company’s assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., that they were willing to break…

February 14

If Things Don't Change, Within Six Years Chicago Will Have More Retired Cops Than Active Ones -- And Big Labor State Legislators Deserve Most of the Blame

Steve Malanga of the Manhattan Institute reported yesterday on a new study of state government pension funds in Illinois and Cook County released by the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accounting. (See the link below for Malanga’s informative summary.) The…

February 6

When Union Officials 'Won't Answer Any Public Questions' or Even 'Allow Questions to Be Asked -- Something Stinks'

As the National Right to Work Committee blog reported on Tuesday, next week a vote will be held at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., to determine whether or not officers of a single union, the United Auto Workers…

January 22

Union Lawyer: An Employee Who Resists Paying Forced Fees For Big Labor Monopoly Bargaining That Harms Him Is a 'Free Rider'

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Harris v. Quinn, a high-stakes labor-policy case in which the High Court is being directly urged, for the first time in more three decades, to overturn on First Amendment grounds state…

January 15

'Height of Arrogance' For a Politician to Tell a Worker That He Benefits From Unionization, Regardless of What the Worker Thinks

At a hearing Monday afternoon on a pending Right to Work measure in Missouri, National Right to Work Newsletter editor Stan Greer, speaking in his capacity as senior research associate for the Committee’s affiliated think tank, explained to legislators…