Archive for February 2015
Compulsory-Unionism Advocates Don’t Favor ‘Freedom of Contract’
In West Virginia and other states where grass-roots efforts to prohibit forced union dues and fees are gaining momentum, Big Labor propagandists who aren’t normally known for their libertarian sympathies…
Read MoreWisconsin Right to Work Advances
The latest on the Wisconsin Right to Work bill and the surrounding union boss protests. Patrick Marley, Daniel Bice and Jason Stein have the story on jsonline.com.  In an abrupt…
Read MoreWEAC’s Not the Only One
Apparently other Wisconsin public sector unions are reeling from the curtailment in the scope of monopoly bargaining (Act 10), as reflected in the staggering membership losses experienced by other public…
Read MoreWEAC Scrambles for Power
Passage of Act 10 gave Wisconsin teachers the power to refrain from supporting or joining a teachers’ labor union in order to get or keep a job. With a 50%…
Read MoreNew Mexico Citizens Want Freedom
New Mexico citizens are coming our strongly in favor of a Right To Work law, according to a recent poll. Ellen Marks has the story in the Albuquerque Business Journal.…
Read MoreHey, Union-Label Politicians: Federal Policy Already ‘Inserts Itself’ Into Private-Sector Labor-Management ‘Agreements’
Ever since Congress adopted the Norris-LaGuardia Act and Republican President Herbert Hoover signed it into law in 1932, federal policy has explicitly declared that private-sector workplace contracts in which employees…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips February 20, 2015
VW recognizes anti-UAW worker group ACE at Tennessee plant Reuters.com, February 16, 2014 Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) said on Monday it had recognized a new group called the American Council of…
Read MoreWest Virginia May Reform Prevailing Wage
Hoppy Kercheval, West Virginia Metro News Online, discusses the economic impact of the state’s prevailing wage law, and the importance of SB 361, a bill which would modify the current…
Read MoreWisconsin Right to Work Bill Considered
Steven Walters predicts the Wisconsin legislature will seriously consider the Right to Work Bill during this session. The list of other major decisions that Republican legislators will be making—and many…
Read MoreWhy Missouri Right to Work Bill May Stall
Trey Kovaks, workplacechoice.org, explains why some Missouri Democrat legislators are doing all they can to keep a Right to Work law from passing in Missouri. Despite the compelling evidence that right-to-work…
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