Posts by NILRR Staff
Big Labor Boss Barricade Against Right To Work Costs Missourians Jobs
Holding up Missouri’s Right To Work Law is costing Missourians thousands of job opportunities. Missouri and national union bosses have created an anti-Right to Work barricade preventing Missourians from prospering under their state’s year-old law prohibiting forced union dues and fees. Sadly, but predictably, Big Labor’s actions are costing Missourians their jobs according to new…
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Trump’s Appointees Are Restoring Reason to the NLRB Wall Street Journal Online, January 31, 2018\ Meantime, the new NLRB has more repair work to do. Up next for reversal could be an Obama-era rule that cut the median time for union elections by more than a third, making them harder for management to contest. Last…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clips January 19, 2018
The Insider’s Tale: Looking Through a (Union) Glass, Darkly Ben Johnson, capitolresearch.org, January 17, 2018 I don’t expect to convince any union officers or staff still wandering the union wilderness that my way is the right way. To them, my arguments are reactionary, tools the forces of capitalism have always used to bust unions. The…
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The Janus Stakes empirecenter.org, January 09, 2018 As shown in this report, if the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiff in Janus, New York state government and New York City municipal employees who have already indicated they would rather not belong to unions would save $53 million a year in dues-like fees. Extrapolating to other…
Read MoreMore People Buying New Homes in Right To Work States
Right to Work = Better Quality of Life when measured by:Percentage Growth in Total Private Sector, Non-Farm Employment (2005-2015);Percentage Growth in the Number of People Employed (2006-2016);Growth in Manufacturing, Private-Sector Payroll Employment (2011-2016);Cost of Living-Adjusted Per Capita Disposable Personal Income (2016);New Privately-Owned Single-Unit Housing Authorizations (per 1,000 Residents, 2016); andPercentage Real Growth in Household Consumption…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News January 05, 2018
America’s top five inbound vs. top five outbound states: How do they compare on a variety of economic, business climate and political measures? carpediem.com, January 04, 2018 All five of the top five inbound states are Right-to-Work (RTW) states, and all of the top five outbound states except Michigan are Forced Unionism states. According to…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News December 29, 2017
Right-to-work attorney challenging SEIU 1000 dues collection Jackson Observer Online, December 27, 2017 A right-to-work attorney acknowledged in court on Monday that he’s trying to “change the law” with a lawsuit that challenges the way state government’s largest union collects dues. “Nowhere can we find a compelling state interest for the state controller to take…
Read MorePensions in Critical Status (2017)
December 21, 2018 by NILRR Staff (Edit) Critical, Critical and Declining, Endangered and WRERA Status Notices 2017 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…
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‘Hoosiers’ Real Purchasing Power Has Increased More Rapidly’ www.nilrr.org, December 6, 2017 by Stan Greer By 2016, the annual average cost of living in Right to Work Indiana was 24.9 percent below the average for the remaining forced-unionism states. And Indiana’s cost of living-adjusted per capita disposable income was more than $3,800 higher than the…
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Worker Files Opening Brief in Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court Case Seeking to Strike Down Forced Union Fees National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, November 29, 2017 Today, attorneys for Illinois public servant Mark Janus filed the first merits brief in the Supreme Court case, Janus v. AFSCME. The brief asks the High Court…
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