Archive for December 2016
NILRR Right to Work News Clips December 30, 2016
It’s time for Pa. to get serious about ‘Right to Work’: Colin McNickle pennlive.com, December 30, 2016 The principle of the right to work is gaining steam across America. Will Pennsylvania stoke the boilers of real progress and hop aboard the train? Ex-union boss charged with bribery likens himself to Jesus New York Post…
Read MoreRight to Work States Economically Out-Perform Forced-Unionism New Hampshire
Last month, New Hampshire Executive Council Member Chris Sununu was elected as governor after running a campaign in which he publicly pledged again and again to fight for passage of a state Right to Work law if victorious. Now, as Sununu prepares to take over as the Granite State’s chief executive, he and his allies…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News Clips December 23, 2016
Right to Work on the March Wall Street Journal Online, December 19, 2016 The New Year will bring change in the states as well as Washington, D.C., and that includes the likely expansion of right-to-work laws to help the economic competitiveness of Missouri, Kentucky and even New Hampshire. Ninth Circuit Sides With Growers Against…
Read MorePensions in Critical Status (2016)
December 21, 2018 by NILRR Staff (Edit) Critical, Critical and Declining, Endangered and WRERA Status Notices 2016 Critical and Declining Status Pensions Critical Status Pension Notices Endangered Status Pension Notices —— Under Federal pension law, if a multiemployer pension plan is determined to be in critical status (a plan in critical and declining status is considered to be…
Read MoreWorking-Age People ‘Are Leaving’ Big Labor Stronghold States ‘in Droves’
Writing for the Washington Times early this month, Stephen Moore, an economist with Freedom Works and recently a senior economic adviser to the Trump campaign, pointed out that, among the 10 states handing the widest-margin victories to the Big Labor-backed Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine ticket in fall’s presidential campaign, all suffered net losses of population due to…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News Clips December 09, 2016
Kanawha circuit judge holds hearing on right-to-work law West Virginia Record Online, December 06, 2016 Mark Mix, the president for the National Right to Work Foundation, said in a press release that “Big Labor’s” latest attack on Right to Work is in a state where there is “overwhelmingly support for the measure.” “Big Labor’s lawyers…
Read MoreMilwaukee Newspaper Investigation Shows How Act 10 Reforms Have Changed Wisconsin For the Better
In the summer of 2011, roughly five-and-a-half years ago, Wisconsin became the first state in U.S. history to implement a major legislative rollback of government union bosses’ monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges. The rollback and the comprehensive public-spending reform package of which it was a part, commonly known as Act 10, have been successful by all…
Read MorePension Crisis a ‘Direct Consequence’ of Union Bosses’ ‘Enormous Political Power’
In a commentary for the New YorkPost published late last week, American Enterprise Institute adjunct scholar Mike Lilley, tersely describes the horrendous fiscal crisis in which the Garden State finds itself: New Jersey has a severe pension crisis: Its unfunded pension liabilities are $95 billion. The state’s retiree health-care obligations add another $65 billion, for…
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