Posts Tagged ‘Nelson Lichtenstein’
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Big Labor Academic Candidly Admits That Compulsory Unionism Antithetical To Free Market www.nilrr.org, November 02, 2017 Lichtenstein strongly asserts that: “[Compulsory] unions are not for the market. They’re against the market. That’s the purpose of a union.” Today’s Big Labor bosses are rarely so blunt about their ideological agenda, but we are unaware of any…
Read MoreBig Labor Academic Candidly Admits That Compulsory Unionism Antithetical To Free Market
In a recent interview with far-left writer Rick Paulas (linked below) Nelson Lichtenstein ridiculed Americans who consider themselves to be pro-union and pro-free market. Such people, said Lichtenstein derisively, “think that if the market worked the way it should, that’d be perfect” for unionizing workers. Lichtenstein strongly asserts that: “[Compulsory] unions are not for the…
Read MoreUnion Militants Who ‘Deny Freedom’ to Workers Who Don’t Want a Union ‘Deserve It Not For Themselves’
Abraham Lincoln’sLetter to Henry L.Pierce- Abraham Lincoln Online For decades, top union bosses and their apologists have rejected the principle that the personal right not to join a union is just as worthy of protection under the law as the right to join a union. From time to time union spokesmen and their allies have…
Read MoreFoundation Case Involves Illinois Workers
Union officials called a strike. There were men who just wanted to work, and for them, the strike fines became even more expensive than honoring the picket line. Now, with free confidential legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, these men are fighting union officials for thousands and thousands in illegal…
Read MoreIs the Last Refuge to Which Forced Unionism Clings, ‘It’s Good For Barack Obama’?
The national, non-union, conventions Even if you fail to notice the days are getting shorter and the leaves are beginning to change color, you can always tell summer is coming to an end when fusty “mainstream” newspapers like the LA Times turn their op-ed pages over to a high-ranking union official or an academic apologist for…
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