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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…
In a recent commentary for the Conservative News Service, I explain how union propagandists routinely misrepresent U.S. Supreme Court and other federal court decisions concerning the “duty of fair representation.” Led by the High Court, the judiciary has recognized that, whenever…
Cost of Living-Adjusted Per Capita Disposable Personal Income (2016) (Click here to download Related 2017 Fact Sheet) If you live in a Right to Work state, it’s likely there is more money in your pocket! Download theNational Institute for Labor…
Last week, a federal court ruled that the International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) bosses are guilty of engaging in “illegal work slowdowns in 2012 and 2013, potentially exposing the union to millions of dollars in damage payments.” As a consequence…
Does Part of Workers’ Wages Belong to Their Monopoly Bargaining Agent, Even If They Aren’t Union Members? Raymond LaJeunesse, The Federalist Society, November 02, 2017 In an October 5 posting on the blog “On Labor,” Harvard Professor of Labor Law…
(Click here to download Related 2017 Fact Sheet) More people employed likely means more jobs being created in Right to Work States. Download theNational Institute for Labor Relations Research’s 2017 Right To Work Benefits Fact Sheet update to learn more…
Big Labor Academic Candidly Admits That Compulsory Unionism Antithetical To Free Market www.nilrr.org, November 02, 2017 Lichtenstein strongly asserts that: “[Compulsory] unions are not for the market. They’re against the market. That’s the purpose of a union.” Today’s Big Labor…
In a recent interview with far-left writer Rick Paulas (linked below) Nelson Lichtenstein ridiculed Americans who consider themselves to be pro-union and pro-free market. Such people, said Lichtenstein derisively, “think that if the market worked the way it should, that’d…
For 70 years, Virginia’s Right to Work law has prohibited the firing of employees for refusal to join or pay dues and fees to a union they never invited and don’t want. This freedom from union coercion is overwhelmingly popular…
Illinois loses Toyota-Mazda plant because of right to work www.ilnews.org, October 19, 2017 Patrick Semmens with the National Right to Work Defense Foundation says it’s not just Toyota and Mazda that’s passing over Illinois. He said many job creators simply…