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Just a few snippets from a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) order that the Teamsters union was ordered to post. As the National Institute for Labor Relations Research obtains more NLRB posters we will keep adding to our newly created…
n 2018, SEIU spent almost $40 million on political activity, more than they spent on representing their members and recruiting new ones.
The 22 states* with Right to Work laws prohibiting forced union dues and fees on the books in 2009 enjoyed overall employment growth of 16.9% over the next decade.
This is a story filled with irony that proves truth is often stranger than fiction. A man named Terry Slaughter was instrumental in a 15-year campaign to unionize a Smithfield Foods slaughterhouse in North Carolina, became a union officer then…
What do your UAW forced-union dues get you? More and more non-member forced-fee payers and union members are questioning the value of UAW affiliation. But, it was good for former UAW Kingpin Dennis Williams who expected to receive a new…
Rank and file UAW members had their say in September, 2019, as many attended Mike Grimes’ trial and had plenty to say both to him and the press about Grimes’ crimes.
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.