Posts Tagged ‘New Jersey’
New Jersey Bus Driver Union Officer Embezzled From Local
Another union official gets caught with his hand in the till in New Jersey, where union membership is high. Even though the former finance office was only the part-time secretary for the local, he had complete power over the checkbook and took advantage of those union members who paid, willingly or not, for membership in…
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 MoreUAW Scandals Grow and more newsclips
My Take: UAW scandals show why Michigan needs to keep workers’ right-to-work protections hollandsentinel.com, November 03, 2018 Forced unionism is an important and under-reported aspect of the UAW/FCA scandal, in connection with which more indictments are expected. As a consequence of a handful of special-interest provisions in federal labor law, tens of thousands of employees…
Read MoreVoting With Feet, Breadwinners Flee Forced-Unionism States
Union propagandists often grossly understate, or “forget” about altogether, regional cost-of-living differences when they are debating living standards in Right to Work states vs. forced-unionism states. What’s hardest of all for Big Labor to explain away is that, when they have a choice, working-age people clearly prefer not to live in forced-unionism states. Considered together,…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News Clips December 09, 2016
Kanawha circuit judge holds hearing on right-to-work law West Virginia Record Online, December 06, 2016 Mark Mix, the president for the National Right to Work Foundation, said in a press release that “Big Labor’s” latest attack on Right to Work is in a state where there is “overwhelmingly support for the measure.” “Big Labor’s lawyers…
Read MorePension Crisis a ‘Direct Consequence’ of Union Bosses’ ‘Enormous Political Power’
In a commentary for the New YorkPost published late last week, American Enterprise Institute adjunct scholar Mike Lilley, tersely describes the horrendous fiscal crisis in which the Garden State finds itself: New Jersey has a severe pension crisis: Its unfunded pension liabilities are $95 billion. The state’s retiree health-care obligations add another $65 billion, for…
Read MoreBig Labor-Dominated States Headed Down Puerto Rico’s Disastrous Path
In 1998, public-sector union bosses and lobbyists arm-twisted elected officials in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico into handing Big Labor statutory monopoly-bargaining power to negotiate municipal employees’ working conditions. At the time, the union-label politicians who bore the responsibility for adopting the monopoly-bargaining law vowed that it would not hurt taxpayers or undermine the territory’s…
Read MoreCompulsory Unionism Plunges States Deep Into Red
None of the 12 States With the Greatest Absolute State-and-Local Government Debt Per Capita Protects Employees From Being Fired For Refusal to Bankroll an Unwanted Union Twenty-five years ago this May, as state officials across the nation were raising taxes and curtailing essential services to patch over large and widening budget gaps, a prescient cover…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet March 04, 2016
WHEN IVIES SIDE WITH THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK COMMITTEE Politico Morning Shift Online, March 01, 2016 MIT and the Ivy League teamed up Monday on an amicus brief urging the NLRB not to allow graduate student teaching assistants to form unions at Columbia. The schools said there’s no “compelling reason,” to reverse the…
Read MoreRight to Work for New Mexico
David Dowd Muska writes on the advantage a Right to Work law would bring to New Mexico. New Mexico doesn’t have a jobs problem. It has a jobs crisis. There are many tools state policymakers can use to restore vibrant job growth, but perhaps no reform offers more promise than passage of a right-to-work (RTW)…
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