Archive for March 2014
Phoenix Residents Paying Outsize Pension Promises
Steve Malanga reviews how Phoenix, Arizona’s public sector pension costs have risen phenomenally in 3 years.  Read the full story in publicsectorinc.org. Pension costs are up about 40 percent in…
Read MoreGrass Roots Activism-Union Boss Style
Michael Saltsman uncovers the truth behind the so-called rallies union bosses have been trying to attribute to fast food and other retail workers. His story appears on triblive.com. Did you…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clipsheet March 28, 2014
Pro-Union Monopoly Statutes Menace U.S. Cities www.nrtw.org, March 27, 2014 In addition to affirming the Motor City’s insolvency, Judge Rhodes made it clear that Detroit has the legal authority…
Read MoreNine of the 10 Top-Ranking States For 2013 Cost of Living-Adjusted Disposable Income Have Right to Work Laws
As the AFL-CIO hierarchy and its allies push for minimum-wage hikes in state after state, union spokesmen and their allies repeatedly invoke the high cost of living in forced-unionism states in the…
Read MoreFrom 2003-3013, Real Private-Sector Compensation Growth in Right to Work States Was Nearly Twice as Great as in Forced-Unionism States
Citing data released by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis earlier the same day, on March 25 James Hohman of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy reported that,…
Read MoreNLRB Approves Pro-Union “Ambush Election” Final Rule
Once again the Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken up the “ambush” rule, allowing union bosses free rein to do whatever it takes to win a representation election. …
Read MoreAn End to Forced Unionization?
Kevin Mooney reviews the connidition of home child care providers and the litigation fighting for freedom on behalf of these workers. The full story appears on AmericanThinker.com. Without a steady…
Read MoreThis Chart Proves Unions Cannot Offer Job Security
The title says it all. Economist Allison Schrager uses the UAW representation election failure at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant to illustrate how union bosses can no longer ensure job…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips, March 21, 2014
 Bus company cuts ties with union in Spring Grove Hanover (PA) Evening Sun, March 14, 2014 More than half the drivers of Teamsters Local 776 signed a petition asking…
Read MoreHow Can Kentucky Offer More Opportunities to Employees?
Border-County Employment-Growth Data Bolster Case For Enactment of a Bluegrass State Right to Work Law By Stan Greer (Download a .pdf file of this Fact Sheet) Could becoming the 25th…
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