Posts Tagged ‘James Sherk’
Forced-Dues State Households Have Less Real Income
Higher Costs for Consumers Translate Into Lower Living Standards for Employees and Everyone Else [download fact sheet here] In California, the erstwhile Golden State, K-12 educators obviously recognize that they don’t live so well relative to educators in other states. That’s why Big Labor-controlled California’s teachers are fleeing to other states in droves. From 2003…
Read MoreWages Up in RTW States
Natalie Johnson has the good news about Right to Work states in the Daily Signal. Private sector wages are not reduced in right-to-work states as union advocates have argued, according to a new report released Tuesday by The Heritage Foundation. James Sherk, a research fellow in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation and the…
Read MoreMore Official Time Cases in Pennsylvania
James Sherk and Nate Bohlander describe the case of the “missing” teacher. Missing from the classroom, that is, as this teacher currently takes care of union business full time but will enjoy all of the perksof a Pennsylvania teacher courtesy of the Pennsylvania taxpayer. This practice, known as “official” or “release” time, and is paid…
Read MoreJames Sherk on Right to Work Laws
James Sherk, explains the value of Right to Work laws, and reviews campaigns for more laws across the country. He is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Eighteen-year-old Saira Blair recently made history as the youngest person elected to the West Virginia legislature. She may make history again as a lawmaker by securing…
Read MoreUnion Shoots Down Higher Wages
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23 has taken Gian Eagle Foods to court over raises the grocery store gave some union members. James Sherk questions if unions really do speak for their members in The Foundry. Managers at the Giant Eagle grocery in Edinboro, Pa., wanted to reward hard work. So they boosted the…
Read More‘Unionized Firms Offer Performance-Based Pay Less Than Half as Often’ as Union-Free Businesses
Why Should the Government Prevent Union Members from Earning RAISEs? Most Americans who aren’t close observers of labor-management relations assume that, whatever other faults they may have, union officials can at least be counted upon to fight consistently for higher pay and benefits for employees. Unfortunately, this assumption is naive and incorrect. As James Sherk…
Read MoreSherk: A union of One; AFSCME Pulls a Fast One on Daycare Workers
James Sherk, in the Washington Times, makes excellent points about the political power unions possess, passing a law that would allow self-employed workers to unionize. That’s correct – self-employed daycare workers. Desperate times call for desperate measures, but the union movement has taken this saying to a new level. It has reacted to…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Finance Politicians Because it Pays
James Sherk refutes Ezra Klein’s assertion that America has a “. . . deeply unbalanced political system . . .” by highlighting Big Labor’s ability to donate huge “in-kind” contributions and maintaining total control over politicians. Read more at The Corner: The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein recently lamented that America has “a deeply unbalanced political…
Read MoreUnion Membership Falls — Again
James Sherk, Senior Policy Analyst with the Heritage Foundation, explains why unions do not speak for their members, and consequently continue to lose members. The story is on National Review Online. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that unions lost 400,000 members in 2012. Union membership fell from 11.8 to 11.3 percent of all…
Read MoreWorkers Should Not Be Forced to Accept a Union’s Services
Unelected Unions: Why Workers Should Be Allowed to – InsiderOnline  Well-intentioned critics of teacher union officials often complain that they favor the interests of educators over those of schoolchildren.  For several reasons, this is a flawed line of attack.  The key problem is its underlying assumption, shared by apologists for Big Labor control over…
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