Archive for March 2014
Will Illinois be the Next Wisconsin?
Jonathan S. Tobin takes a look at the Illinois primary, where political novice Bruce Rauner, primary winner, intends to reduce government employee union power over the state government, in Commentary…
Read MoreFrom 2003-2013, Private-Sector Payroll Employment Grew More Than Twice as Fast in Right to Work States as in Forced-Unionism States
Earlier today, the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued its estimates for total annual 2013 private-sector payroll employment in the 50 states. The BLS simultaneously released an…
Read MoreBid to remove Pa. exemption in labor disputes advances
Pennsylvania union bosses have used a little-known legal exemption to avoid prosecution for stalking and harassment. With the recent spate of violence in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania House has voted to remove that…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 14, 2014
Right-to-work bill dies in Kentucky House committee wave3.com, March 14, 2014 A Kentucky House committee’s vote killed right-to-work legislation for the rest of the year, but both sides say…
Read MoreIs It Really News to UAW Bosses That Their Political Partisanship Offends Many Workers?
In a whiny commentary for The American Prospect published three days after workers at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga voted decisively against union monopoly bargaining last month, Harold Meyerson,…
Read MoreKentucky needs to be a right to work state
State Represenaatative Sal Santoro explains why Kentucky should pass a Right to Work Law in cincinnati.com. USA Today recently published a report entitled “The Most Miserable States in the USA†that,…
Read MoreUnion Bosses ‘Are Not Forced by Federal Law to Be Exclusive Bargaining Representatives; They Seek This Power of Their Own Volition’
Ever since then-Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a bill making Indiana America’s 23rd Right to Work state a little more than two years ago, top bosses of suburban Chicago-based Local 150…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Threaten Harm to Children
Authorities are investigating allegatons of threats and violence to workers as well as their children, in a year-long strike filled with violence and threats. Richard Read has the story on…
Read MoreThe Really Big Money? Not the Kochs
Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel on union political spending and forced dues. It’s an extraordinary thing, in a political age obsessed with campaign money, that nobody scrutinizes the biggest, baddest,…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 07, 2014
The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs Wall Street Journal Online, March 6, 2014 It’s an extraordinary thing, in a political age obsessed with campaign money, that nobody…
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