Archive for December 2019
Union Vice President Enriches Himself Through Teamster Benefit Plan
Unions claim to benefit their workers, but many are victims of compulsory unionism, forced to pay dues in order to get or keep a job. When union officials take these dues for their own enrichment, especially from an employee benefit plan, rank and file members are robbed a second time. On December 12, 2019, in the…
Read MoreUAW Corruption & Greed Driving Itself Over a Cliff
Daniel Howes and Robert Snell of The Detroit News have assembled a very complete synopsis of a decade-long UAW scandal. It work the read to see how union bosses take the trust and money gained off the backs of hardworking employees and taxpayers and indulge in colossal self-indulgences. Million-dollar trips to Palm Springs, homes, golf…
Read MoreHISTORY 101 — Right to Work: A Winning Issue
(Originally published on January 1, 2002) For well over three decades, congressional debates and recorded votes on the Right to Work issue have consistently benefited proponents and harmed opponents in subsequent election campaigns. The inverse has proven equally true: Whenever federal politicians who publicly purport to support Right to Work have chosen, supposedly for “tactical”…
Read MoreRight to Work States Attract Job-Creating Investments
Every year, hundreds of thousands of additional jobs are “insourced” into the United States by foreign companies. By 2017, there were more than 7.4 million insourced jobs across the country, which “represented 5.9% of all private sector U.S. jobs,” as University of Michigan-Flint economist Mark Perry reported last month in a post for Carpe Diem,…
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