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Forced-Dues State Households Have Less Real Income and more news
Forced-Dues State Households Have Less Real Income www.nilrr.org, October 22, 2018 MERIC’s annual data for 2017 show that, among the 14 states with the highest overall cost of living last year, not one has on the books and in effect a Right to Work law barring the termination of employees for refusal to join or…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News March 23, 2018
Featured Video – I Was a Union President. Now I Support Right to Work capitalresearch.org, March 20, 2018 Ben Johnson spent the last decade as treasurer and then president of AFT Vermont, the state affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the country. For three of those years, Johnson also…
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The Janus Stakes empirecenter.org, January 09, 2018 As shown in this report, if the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiff in Janus, New York state government and New York City municipal employees who have already indicated they would rather not belong to unions would save $53 million a year in dues-like fees. Extrapolating to other…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet March 03, 2017
Seventh Circuit hears arguments over IL ‘fair share’ union fees; case may be headed to SCOTUS Cook County Record Online, March 01, 2017 However, attorney William Messenger, of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, echoing a brief his foundation filed in the case along with the Chicago-based Liberty Justice Center, agreed with Judge…
Read MoreEven Wall Street Isn’t Immune From Forced-Unionism Ills
Largely due to the inordinate clout of Big Labor’s forced union dues-funded political machine over New York’s elected officials, the Empire State’s employees, business owners, and other taxpayers have long been saddled with extraordinarily high taxes and excessive regulations. But regardless of how bad the overall climate for job and income creation in New York…
Read MoreWhy Do New York City Union Bosses Oppose Safer Pensions For Their Members?
In city after city where government union bosses acquired monopoly power to negotiate public employee, pay benefits, and work rules several decades ago, looming public pension shortfalls represent a grave fiscal threat. Whenever they are compelled by an imminent or existing crisis to even talk about pension shortfalls, Big Labor spokesmen routinely adopt one of…
Read MoreForced-Unionism Statutes Suppress Job Growth in Many Business Sectors, Including Traditionally Union-Free Ones
Today apologists for compulsory union dues and fees often suggest that, because only a little more than seven percent of private-sector employees in the U.S. are covered by a union contract according to the most recent available data, there is no way monopolistic unions could significantly suppress job growth in jurisdictions where they are encouraged.…
Read MoreUnion Officials Forced to End Month-Long Strike
Unable to live on the strike pay they were drawing, rank and file union members withdrew their support from their union bosses. Thisforced Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181’s bosses to call off the month-long strike that deprived tens of thousands of special needs students from their education and support programs. Rumor has it that even…
Read MoreTaste of the Future
John Podhoretz puts a new angle on the New York City bus strike, predicting other cities will experience the same sort of trouble as public sector union bosses lose more and more power. Here’s the story in the New York Post. There’s a major labor action going on in New York City, as the…
Read MoreNew York City Union Officials Fiddle While Their Members Must Be Burning
Another example of union bosses’ contempt for their rank and file: Many teachers depend upon their union officials to negotiate on their behalf, and are left high and dry while union officials party and live a life of luxury. Carl Campanile and Yoav Gonen have the story in the New York Post: While city public-school…
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