Archive for November 2015
Teacher Union Lawyers Tacitly Admit Many Educators Get Paid Less as a Consequence of Monopolistic Unionism
Under an array of federal court precedents such as Atkins v. City of Charlotte and the labor statutes of every state in the union, K-12 public educators have the right to join and financially support a union without being fired as a consequence. But otherwise the state laws and policies governing labor-management relations in public…
Read MoreRight to Work for New Mexico
David Dowd Muska writes on the advantage a Right to Work law would bring to New Mexico. New Mexico doesn’t have a jobs problem. It has a jobs crisis. There are many tools state policymakers can use to restore vibrant job growth, but perhaps no reform offers more promise than passage of a right-to-work (RTW)…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Are Extraordinarily Inhospitable to ‘Middle-Educated’ Americans
As of last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 30.1% of American adults aged 25 and up had at least a bachelor’s degree education. Census data also show that states with Right to Work laws on the books prohibiting forced union dues and fees as a condition of employment have done a superior job…
Read MorePA Home Care Workers Hustled
United Home Care Workers, a joint project of the ServiceEmployees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) pulled an ambush electionon Pennsylvania home care workers, where only about thirteen percent of the involved workers were eligible to vote. After Bill Messenger, attorney for the National Right To Work…
Read MoreBosses Shake Down McDonald’s
Using a U. S. District judge to do its dirty work, the National Labor Relations Board is shaking down McDonald’s employees by forcing their employer to render up their personal emails. Daniel Weissner has the story on reuters.com. A U.S. judge on Friday gave McDonald’s Corp 30 days to hand over thousands of employee emails…
Read MoreCompulsory Unionism Hurts Hispanics & Poor
New Fact Sheet: Forced Unionism Correlated With Higher Poverty Rates Hispanic Americans Are 20% More Likely to Be Poor in States That Don’t Protect Employees’ Right to Work By Stan Greer The share of a state’s population that is poor, commonly referred to as its poverty rate, is undoubtedly an important (negative) indicator of economic…
Read MoreLongshoremen’s Association Endorses Hillary Clinton
International Longshoreman’sAssociation (ILA) officials madeit clear they mean to consolidate their power by announcingtheir endorsement of Hillary Clinton in Right to Work South Carolina.She peppered her acceptance speech with references toThe Palmetto State being a Right to Work state. Schulyer Kropf has the story in the Post And Courier Online. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton…
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