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UAW official Michael Grimes has been ordered to pay $1,509,500 after being found guilty of stealing money from union members and forced-dues payers.
Union bosses may not like secret ballot elections when conducting organizing drives, but they cannot deny their members in a union election. A lawsuit alleging Local 41 did not enough safeguards to ensure all ballots were counted in November, 2017…
AFT Local 4973 President James Young has pleaded guilty to embezzling money from the union.
The correlation between forced-unionism status and a higher cost of living is robust. Not one of the 14 highest-cost states in 2019 has a Right to Work law. But 13 of the 15 lowest cost-of-living states protect employees’ Right to Work.
There is a compelling case to be made that compulsory unionism actually fosters a higher cost of living.
Yet another UAW employee has been convicted and sentenced to prison for theft of union members’ dues in New Jersey, Lawrence Ackerman.
UAW union members have a lot to keep tabs on. The corruption that is so rampant within the upper echelons of the organization are apparently just the tip of the dungheap as two more officers have been charged with more…
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…
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…
(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…
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…