‘If They Send It to Me, I’m Signing It’
Big Labor Nevada politician Aaron Ford is making no bones about the fact that “getting rid of” Right to Work, as he put it in a podcast interview, will be high on his 2027 agenda.
The Indiana legislature fines legislators $1000 a day for an unexcused absence. With Big Labor union bosses demanding Democrats stop the will of the majority by denying the legislature a quorum, Indiana Democrats are not showing up to work. That has put a few of them in a bind.
Two Democratic lawmakers — Reps. Vanessa Summers of Indianapolis and Shelli VanDenburgh of Crown Point — are seeking a temporary restraining order to block the fines. Attorney Mark GiaQuinta, who is representing Summers and VanDenburgh, said neither has income outside the legislature. “They’re faced with a choice of representing their constituents or supporting their families,” he said.
That is, of course, sheer nonsense. Legislators represent their constituents by showing up to work and voting their conscience. They don’t represent their constituents by ducking, hiding and not avoiding tough choices. Indiana citizens want their Right to Work.
Big Labor Nevada politician Aaron Ford is making no bones about the fact that “getting rid of” Right to Work, as he put it in a podcast interview, will be high on his 2027 agenda.
After a fierce legislative battle, a bill to protect Idaho educators’ freedom of association has been signed by GOP Gov. Brad Little. The Committee is committed to similarly protecting more and more civil servants nationwide.
The ILA hierarchy’s clear motive in suing two carriers that had docked at Leatherman, and in its threat to sue others if they did the same, was to bully the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA), with whom the union had no contract, into selling out the freedom of union-free port employees who then operated heavy equipment.