As Wall Street Journal editor Jason Riley recently noted, teacher union chiefs support work rules that “shield teachers from meaningful evaluations, and that require instructors to be laid off based on seniority instead of performance.” But Right to Work Law…
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…
Despite the fact it is now clearly helping increase workers’ spendable incomes, top AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka claims workers are somehow being “hurt” by the tax cut package adopted late last year. Credit: Mike Segar-Reuters Union Officials Fume as American…
Government union bosses in Illinois wield such extensive monopoly privileges that it’s all but impossible for elected officials like Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to rein in exorbitant public employee compensation costs. That’s the key reason why Emanuel and other Prairie…
Union Bosses’ Monopoly Power Drives Away Taxpayers of All Kinds (Source: July 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) According to the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, this year on average citizens of forced-unionism Connecticut are surrendering well…
Households in High-Cost Big Labor Strongholds ‘Get Socked Twice’ (Source: May 2015 National Right To Work Newsletter) In late March, the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation announced its estimate that “Tax…
For years and years, the private sector in Scranton, Pa., has been shrinking. That means, among other things, that the mayor and other elected officials desperately need to get city taxpayers’ sky-high costs for municipal employee compensation under control. Scranton’s…
Top bosses of the National Education Association-affiliated Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) union are determined to foist a $1.9 billion tax hike on hardworking people across the Bay State. And they are enlisting the help of union-label Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick…