Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) and other Big Labor politicians fear millions of public servants will ultimately exercise their now-recognized personal freedom to quit the union and cut off all financial support thanks to their Janus rights, won at the U.S.
Big Labor lawyers like Harvard man Ben Sachs are posed to take a case designed to nullify all state Right to Work laws to the Supreme Court, as soon as they decide the time is ripe. Credit: WJCT-TV (Jacksonville, Fla.)…
A new scholarly study shows convincingly that more extensive monopoly privileges and greater political clout for teacher union bosses result in worse educational outcomes at a higher cost to taxpayers. Credit: Henry Payne/Scripps Howard Union Monopolists Make Schools Less Effective…
n a 2014 open letter to Alabama teacher union officials, former state teacher union President Paul Hubbert admitted that the loss of automatic “payroll deduction” privileges was a key reason the union’s finances were deteriorating rapidly. Credit: AP file photo/…
If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ongoing efforts to prevent public employees from exercising their Janus rights fall short, his next move may well be to “tap taxpayers, rather than union members, to fund unions’ operations.” Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images…
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 . . . .”…
In January 2016, union-free construction workers were clubbed, punched, kicked, and trampled on by a squad of goons at a church-owned site where they were expanding the Plum Creek Christian Academy in Dyer, Ind. Multiple witnesses quickly ID’d two top…
When Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi arrived on the set in Milton, Mass., Teamster tough John Fidler allegedly reached into her vehicle and threatened, “I’ll smash your pretty little face.” (After this article went to the printer, these four union…
President Can Stop Infrastructure Bill From Bilking Taxpayers By the time this month’s Newsletter edition reaches its readers, the U.S. Congress may well have already received a plan from the Trump Administration calling for the expenditure of a trillion…