Archive for September 2015
Right To Work States Draw Workers
Stephen Moore, economic consultant at Freedom Works, details how Right to Work states are drawing workers from non-Right to Work states, in the Washington Times. The new Census data on…
Read MoreRight to Work States Represent the Future of the U.S. Automotive Industry
Long before the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis issued its state-by-state estimates for manufacturing output of motor vehicles, bodies and trailers and parts in 2013 (see the link…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet September 25, 2015
No more forced union dues for UAW autoworkers in 3 Midwest states Wisconsinwatchdog.org, September 23, 2015 The United Auto Workers may extend its current contract with the Big Three automakers,…
Read MoreChicago Archbishop Has Duty to Defend ‘Divinely Established Rights of the Individual’
There is no doubt about the fact that Catholic social teaching going back to Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) has strongly endorsed the individual employee’s right to join…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet September 18, 2015
Legislators in Missouri Take Aim at Union Dues New York Times Online, September 15, 2015 “I know we’ve flipped some,†said Greg Mourad, a vice president at the National Right…
Read MoreWorker Advocate Files Amicus Brief in Friedrichs v. CTA Case
National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys have just filed an amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) brief in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, urging the United States Supreme Court…
Read MoreThomas Perez’s Smoke and Mirrors
Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is using smoke and mirrors to make it appear union members make more than nonunion workers. Diana Furchtgott-Roth debunks the Labor Secretary’s fable about the earning…
Read MoreA Nonmember ‘Has to Pay for the Union to Bargain’ With the State to ‘Achieve Something’s That’s Contrary to That Person’s Interest’
As a number of media reports over the past few days such as the Breitbart account linked below have pointed out, the U.S. Supreme Court case in Friedrichs v. California…
Read MoreThe Texas Advantage Over New Hampshire
Right to Work, business-friendly Texas offers a sensible alternative to New Hampshire’s high taxes and lack of incentives for businesses. Andrew Cline has the story in the Wall Street Journal.…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet September 11, 2015
A chance to make union dues a choice The Supreme Court could end a corrupt practice of public-sector labor Washington Times Online, September 6, 2015 Mark Mix Thanks largely to…
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