Archive for October 2018
Public Employees Hit Operating Engineers Union with Federal Charges and more news
Journalists Turning to Union Protection in Turbulent Times bloomberglaw.com, October 26, 2018 Unionization can be problematic when all employees are forced into a “one-size-fits-all contract,” National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation spokesman Patrick Semmens told Bloomberg Law in an email. “The problem with unionization under current U.S. labor law, whether of a newsroom or…
Read MoreForced-Dues State Households Have Less Real Income
Higher Costs for Consumers Translate Into Lower Living Standards for Employees and Everyone Else [download fact sheet here] In California, the erstwhile Golden State, K-12 educators obviously recognize that they don’t live so well relative to educators in other states. That’s why Big Labor-controlled California’s teachers are fleeing to other states in droves. From 2003…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Taxpayers Flee and more news
Forced-Unionism States Face $200B Income Loss as Taxpayers Flee Slow-Growth States cnsnews.com, October 16, 2018 The most recent available data, for the Tax Filing Year 2016, show that a total of 1.78 million tax filers were residing that year in a Right to Work state after residing somewhere else in the U.S. the previous year. …
Read More2018 U.S. DOL Criminal Enforcement Actions
2018 USDOL Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) On December 20, 2018,in the United States District Court of Rhode Island, Adam Conheeny, former police officer and former Treasurer of Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge 8 (located in Newport, R.I.), was sentenced to three months of imprisonment followed by two years of supervised release. Conheeny previously…
Read More$200B Loss as Taxpayers Flee Forced-Unionism States
From a CNS Op-Ed by Stan Greer, National Institute for Labor Relations Research senior research associate: Forced-Unionism States Face $200B Income Loss as Taxpayers Flee Slow-Growth States. Click here to read the full CNSNews.com piece. For decades, hardworking taxpayers have been fleeing the slow-growth states that permit the firing of employees for refusal to bankroll an…
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