Archive for May 2013
NILRR Weekly News Clips May 10, 2013
Kansas outperforms ranking on employment Topeka Capital Journal Online, May 4, 2013 Factors considered in the report are the state’s highest personal income tax rate, highest corporate income…
Read MoreTop 10 Business States Are Right to Work States; Bottom 3 Forced Unionism States
Chief Executive Magazine’s survey of CEO’s brought some good, but not necessarily new news. The top 10 states for business are Right to Work states, and 3 of the bottom 10…
Read MoreColbert-Busch’s Union Push No Big Surprise
A Big Labor payback that is nothing short of outrageous, but no big surprise. Betsy Woodruff has the story in National Review Online. On a dreary, humid Sunday in front…
Read MoreA Baltimore jail scandal aided by union politics
Reading like a 1970’s report on the Teamsters, Charles Lane reports on AFSCME’s role in the Baltimore City Detention Center scandal, involving gangs and corruption, financed by mandatory dues checkoff…
Read MoreTeamster Freedom of Association Hustle
By Charles Baird  (Click to download article) Charles Baird, noted classical liberal economist, professor emeritus at California State University, East Bay, and adjunct scholar for the National Institute for Labor…
Read MoreRight to Work Kansas Ranks High in Employment
Right to Work has helped put Kansas on map for low unemployment and high labor force participation. Megan Hart has the story in Topeka Capital Journal online.com Kansas ranked among…
Read More‘Schools Already Have Entered Into Mini-Bidding Wars Over Individual Teachers’
Wage freeze for teachers starting to melt | Wausau Daily Herald … Back in the early 1960’s, American Federation of Teachers (AFT/AFL-CIO) union pioneers Dave Selden and Al Shanker crafted a…
Read MoreMichigan Supreme Court considers giving Snyder an early opinion on right-to-work
Michigan Government union officials are still demanding the courts give them back their forced-dues privileges. Paul Egan has the story in the Detroit Free Press. More than three months after…
Read MoreIf UAW Unionizes Foreign Automakers. . .
Doug Altner explains why auto workers should be free to join or refrain from union membership, in   AynRandCenter.org. If you want to imagine the potential hazards of the United Auto…
Read MoreObama Spin Machine Can Easily Fool Mainstream Media, But Supreme Court Will Be Tougher
Did Hensarling Force Obama’s Hand On “Recess†Appointments? – OpenMarket.org In late April the Obama Administration finally got around to offering a legal response to a stern rebuke it had…
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