Posts Tagged ‘government unions’
STRANGLEHOLD: How union bosses have hijacked our government
Special Abridged Edition By: Reed Larson WHY DOES THE COST OF GOVERNMENT KEEP GOING UP AND UP? In Strangehold, Reed Larson reveals the astonishing story of how organized labor has acquired incredible, hidden power over most local, state, and national government in America. The results of this power grab include: Higher taxes on business and…
Read MoreUnions at a Crossroads: New Data Confirms a Quarter Century of Decline—and Points the Way
Perhaps most compelling is the right-to-work comparison. States that protect workers’ freedom to choose whether to join or pay a union have added 14 million private-sector jobs since 2000—a 27 percent gain—versus just 8.5 million jobs (14.7 percent) in forced-unionism states.
Read More‘Quintessential Organized Labor’ State ‘in Worse Shape’ Than the Other 49
How are the tax and other public policies aimed at ensuring New Jersey remains the “quintessential Organized Labor” state working out for ordinary employees and business owners and their families? Not at all well, as even New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford Township), a lifelong apologist for compulsory unionism who moonlights as an…
Read MoreForced-Unionism Illinois: The ‘Just-Above Junk’ State
For years, government union monopolists have been ripping off ordinary taxpayers in Illinois, a state where both private- and public-sector employees may be forced to pay Big Labor dues or fees as a job condition, in a host of ways. Meanwhile, the Prairie State’s economic performance has been abysmal. From 2006 to 2016, for example,…
Read MoreIllinois Union Bosses Given Access to Workers’ Personal Information
Employers’ personnel files hold lots of private information about employees, including their Social Security numbers and those of their next of kin. If identity thieves gain access to employees’ names along with their personal information, they can use what they’ve stolen to open bank accounts, obtain credit cards, and create false work documents. Consequently,…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work in the News February 10, 2017
In fast ruling, judge upholds SEIU Local 1000 dues collection The Sacramento Bee Online, February 08, 2017 A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a right-to-work lawsuit that sought to upend the way state government’s largest union collects dues from employees who do not want to fund political activities. James Young of the National…
Read MoreGovernment Union Bosses’ Gloating Is Premature
Just a few short weeks ago, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing of oral arguments of a landmark case challenging forced financial support of government unions on First Amendment grounds, observers of the High Court overwhelmingly agreed it was poised to bar compulsory dues and fees in the public sector by a…
Read MoreFriedrichs’ Oral Arguments Completed
Richard Wolf, USA Today Online, reports on the now closed oral arguments in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case before the Supreme Court. The case could free public sector workers from being forced to support or join a labor union in order to get or keep their jobs. The Supreme Court left little doubt…
Read MoreWhy We Should End Compulsory Union Dues
In her own words, Rebecca Friedrichs explains why the Supreme Court should end compulsory unionism for all, on cnn.com. Rebecca Friedrichsis the lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. CTA. The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments of the case on Monday. She has been teaching for 28 years and is an elementary school teacher in the…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Smear Teachers
Union bosses are demonizing one of their own who has dared to disagree with their policies. Faced with losing billions of dollars at a critical time, union officials, from the AFL_CIO to teacher union officials themselves, all are desperate to keep their forced-dues windfall operating. Friedrichs v. CTA, a case currently before the Supreme Court,…
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