Under new Chairman John Ring, the NLRB can make it less difficult for workers to dismiss unwanted unions. Biased Regulations Keep Union Monopolists Entrenched For Decades On April 11, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm President Trump’s nomination of attorney…
Reps. Scott Tayor (R-Va., center), and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) pledged to cosponsor national Right to Work legislation during their successful 2016 campaigns. But so far they haven’t done so. Many of the constituents who helped elect them want to know…
Big Labor Senators Aim to Cement Courts’ Pro-Forced Unionism Bias Even as the number of Right to Work states and the share of all U.S. employees protected from compulsory unionism grew rapidly from early 2012 through early last year,…
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorney and Janus case Counsel of Record Bill Messenger: The Supreme Court would be ill-advised to allow public-sector forced fees to continue “effectively as a form of protection money . . . .”…
Without prompt preemptive action by President Trump, his massive infrastructure spending proposal has the potential to divert billions of forced-dues dollars into the coffers of union bigwigs like AFL-CIO czar Richard Trumka (Credit: Sam Nash) President Must Act Soon, or…
According to federal prosecutors, Pittsburgh union boss Ray Ventrone used workers’ forced dues to buy gym and nautilus equipment, sport tickets and multi-thousand-dollar restaurant meals. He ultimately copped to stealing $1.5 million. Obama Administration Slashed Funding For Corruption Watchdogs After…
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…
A union goon’s attack blinded Victor Riesel, but didn’t deter him from exposing union-boss corruption. Riesel had been reporting on corruption in the International Union of Operating Engineers and its then-President, William C. DeKoning, Jr. The acid burning and blinding of Riesel is another…