Posts by NILRR Staff
Right to Work States Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power
Right to Work States Benefit From Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power Fall 2017 Update (downloadpdf file of Fact Sheet) Right to Work States Benefit From Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power — Fall 2017 Update Percentage Growth in Total Private Sector, Non-Farm Employment (2005-2015) Right To Work States 15.4% Forced-Unionism States 10.4% Source: Department…
Read More‘Economizing in Connecticut’s School System Is Actually Illegal’
Fewer and fewer of our nation’s children live and attend school in forced-unionism states. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, as recently as 2000, roughly 50% of K-12 school-aged children (5-17 years old) lived in one of the 22 states that, as of today, still haven’t enacted Right to Work laws. This year, the share…
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Supreme Court Asked To Weigh-In On The Legality Of Union Fees oann.com, August 30, 2017 The Right to Work Foundation submitted a brief Tuesday asking the high court to consider the case of Illinois state worker Mark Janus. The foundation, which is representing Janus, argues that required fees for government employees are illegal and are…
Read MoreCompulsory Big Labor Indoctrination For New California Teachers
The fact is, even many union bosses and Big Labor politicians are already openly preparing for the day when forced dues and fees will no longer be permitted in the government sector, even in states without statutory Right to Work protections for public servants. A cynical special-interest California measure known as A.B.119, quickly adopted by…
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Home Health Caregivers Might Find Relief from Union Coercion at Supreme Court mackinac.org, August 18, 2017 To help end the dues skim nationally, the Mackinac Center and National Federation of Independent Business have signed on to an amicus brief authored by the Cato Institute in the case Hill v. SEIU. The plaintiff in is being…
Read MoreManufacturing Jobs Boom in Right to Work Tennessee
News stories published this month in the New York Times and the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press highlight the astonishing growth in manufacturing employment experienced by Right To Work Tennessee since the last national recession. Times reporter Patricia Cohen focuses on the job-creating investments from abroad pouring into Chattanooga, the fourth-largest city in the state,…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clips August 11, 2017
Offal Behavior AUG 21, 2017 | By THE SCRAPBOOK A federal extortion trial in Boston last week showed that Teamsters members haven’t lost their knack for cooking up trouble. It all began in June 2014, when the reality TV kitchen competition Top Chef visited the city to film. Let’s just say things got a little…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clips August 04, 2017
What’s Sauce for the Goose Is Sauce for the Gander, Even at the National Labor Relations Board fed-soc.org, August 02, 2017 Raymond J. LaJeunesse An article in the July 31, 2017, Bloomberg BNA Daily Labor Report notes that William Emanuel, a lawyer with Littler Mendelson PC and one of President Donald Trump’s two current nominees…
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Kentucky Workers Win Motion to Intervene to Defend Bluegrass State Right to Work Law www.nrtw.org, July 26, 2017 With free legal representation from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys, a group of Kentucky workers have won a motion to intervene in the recently filed Big Labor-backed lawsuit attacking Kentucky’s new Right to…
Read MoreTerminated Carpenters Union Managed Pension Annually Resuscitated by PBGC
The U.S. Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration keeps track of “Critical and Declining, Critical, and Endangered” multiemployer pension funds. During 2016, 86 of these labor union dominated plans were in Critical Declining Status, 168 were in Critical Status, and 98 were in Endangered Status.[i] Critical and declining status has ballooned since first being established…
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