Illinois Pension Reform Dead

The Illinois Supreme Court has blown government employee pension reform efforts out of the water, claiming it violates the state constitution. Taxpayers will continue to be on the hook for union bosses’ extravagant demands for more, more, more, that has brought the state to the point of a $111 billion underfunding of the pension system.…

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Will Government Union Bosses Break Their Pension Promises to Future Retirees, or Foist Massive Additional Burdens on Taxpayers?

As of last year, according to data compiled by economists Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson, state and local government employees across the U.S. were roughly seven-and-a-half times as likely to be unionized as their counterparts in the private sector. Government-sector union density is so high, in fact, that even the compensation plans of non-union public…

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Nevada Reforms Monopoly Bargaining

The Nevada legislature has passed a bill which would make government employee union monopoly bargaining procedures more transparent. Even though the state has a Right To Work Law, many government employees are still subject to monopoly bargaining agreements against their will. Sean Whaley of the Las Vegas Review-Journal has the story. Senate Bill 158, one…

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Union Local in Hot Water Again

Communications Workers of American union bosses ofLocal 84555 has a lot to answer for, including failing to file an LM-2 report with the Department of Labor. The LM-2 report is required by every union that represents private employees. Gary Ridley has the story on mlive.com. A Shiawassee County labor union once at the center of…

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NILRR News Clips May 08, 2015

NLRB Schedules Fifth Vote to Decertify Local UAW Washington Free Beacon Online, May 07, 2015 Alabama workers are being forced to take a fifth vote to kick out a local UAW chapter despite giving the union the boot in February. Top N.J. lawmaker helping embattled ironworkers union rebuild as criminal case wanes nj.com, May 01,…

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Ambush Elections Favoring Unions

Joe Trauger of Shopfloor.org, explains how the Ambush Election regulation is working as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)intended, in favor of union bosses. If anyone had a question about how the National Labor Relations Board decision on Specialty Healthcare and the recent implementation of the Ambush Election regulation would play out, we got an…

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Right to Work States Mean Economic Prosperity

Arthur Laffer, Stephen Moore and Joel Griffith provide more evidence why Right to Work States’ economic power is growing in this Heritage Foundation report. Right-to-Work Laws. On the effect of right-to-work laws, the same picture comes into sharp focus. A right-to-work law does not prohibit a union, but empowers individual workers to choose whether to…

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Corporate Campaign Gamble

UNITE/HERE union bosses allegedly sent letters to Trump casino customers urging them to shun the casino shortly before the casino’s management asked for the collective bargaining agreementto be cancelled. Wayne Parry has the story on Fox Business News. A bankruptcy judge in Delaware will consider a request Wednesday by Trump Entertainment Resorts to force Local…

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NILRR News Clips May 01 2015

UAW members get information on how to leave union freep.com, April 29, 2015 About three dozen UAW workers gathered today in Sterling Heights to get advice on how leave the union or stop paying dues after Michigan’s right-to-work law starts applying to the Detroit-based union. Freedom’s just another word for mandatory dues, union says watchdog.org,…

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