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Virginia IATSE Union Corruption Case Ends, Union Membership Left Years Before On April 9, 2019, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Newport News Division, Benjamin Wisecarver, former President of International Alliance of Theatrical, Stage…
The California Democratic Party convention drew all 24 Democrat to San Francisco this week. While all were invited, only six of the 24 Democrat presidential candidates made a special visit to a Service Employees International (SEIU) meeting. Amy Klobuchar stumped…
From the Institute’s Stan Greer Op-Ed at the Reno Gazette Journal: With a matter of days left before the Nevada Legislature ends its session, national union officials visited the Silver State recently to lobby for more union monopoly power. Big…
For years federal investigators have been scrutinizing International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 98 officers’ management of its forced-dues filled union treasury. Thanks to Local 98’s 2016 federal financial disclosure reports, we have a peek inside federal investigators’ concerns.…
As seasoned supporters of the Right to Work cause already know, there is a mountain of evidence indicating that laws and legislation authorizing and promoting compulsory union financial support as a job condition are economically harmful. One particularly powerful example…
To the tune of $2 Billion, Big Labor Bosses used money, primarily from forced-dues union treasuries in their control, to influence the 2017-2018 Elections. Big Labor’s 2018 Election Cycle by the Numbers Union Treasury Self-Reported “Political” Disbursements (Source: U.S. Department…
Union federal disclosure reports show over $1.3 billion spent on “political and lobbying activities” from forced dues-funded union treasuries in 2017-18 (Washington, DC) – The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) has released a new analysis of publicly available…
An op-ed recently published by CNS News documents the link between special legal privileges for union officials and public-sector insolvency. All of the six states with the greatest per capita government pension liability foist forced union dues and fees on employees,…
Recently, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of he U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, released Fiscal 2018 data regarding participation in all 50 states in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Among other…