Seasonal Employee Gets $0.00 Paycheck after Teamsters Boss Takes Their Cut

One UPS driver in California worked the entire holiday rush… and took home a paycheck of $0.00 after Teamsters deductions. That single paystub captures how today’s labor laws can funnel power and money to union bosses at the direct expense of students and other temporary seasonal workers. A $0.00 Paycheck in a Holiday Crush Imagine…

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So-Called “Collective Bargaining” Laws Handcuff Teachers To Union Bosses Who Prefer Conflicts Over Cooperation

Union organizers are not interested in building harmony but creating a divided school community with teachers against teachers and parents against parents. This union behavior undermines schools, teachers, and especially the schoolchildren. And, state and federal laws force teachers to submit to often radical union-control over their classrooms. Monopoly bargaining must end in order to rebuild our classrooms.

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Freedom is not the unions’ friend

George Will comments on the economic impact of the Michigan Right to Work Law Rick Snyder, who is hardly a human cactus, warned Michigan’s labor leaders. The state’s mild-mannered Republican governor, currently in his first term in his first public office, has rarely been accused of being, or praised for being, a fire-breathing conservative. When…

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NILLR New Clips – April 27, 2012

A One-Sided ‘Right’ to Unionize?! LaborUnionReport.com, April 9, 2012  A guest commentary by Stan Greer, senior research associate for the National Institute for Labor Relations Research The claim that there is a civil right to join a union, but no equivalent right not to join a union was summarily rejected by a unanimous High Court in…

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