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Right to Work States Economically Out-Perform Forced-Unionism New Hampshire

Last month, New Hampshire Executive Council Member Chris Sununu was elected as governor after running a campaign in which he publicly pledged again and again to fight for passage of a state Right to Work law if victorious. Now, as…

NILRR Right to Work News Clips December 23, 2016

  Right to Work on the March Wall Street Journal Online, December 19, 2016 The New Year will bring change in the states as well as Washington, D.C., and that includes the likely expansion of right-to-work laws to help the…

Pensions in Critical Status (2016)

December 21, 2018 by NILRR Staff (Edit) Critical, Critical and Declining, Endangered and WRERA Status Notices 2016 Critical and Declining Status Pensions Critical Status Pension Notices Endangered Status Pension Notices —— Under Federal pension law, if a multiemployer pension plan is determined to…

Working-Age People ‘Are Leaving’ Big Labor Stronghold States ‘in Droves’

Writing for the Washington Times early this month, Stephen Moore, an economist with Freedom Works and recently a senior economic adviser to the Trump campaign, pointed out that, among the 10 states handing the widest-margin victories to the Big Labor-backed Hillary…

NILRR Right to Work News Clips December 09, 2016

Kanawha circuit judge holds hearing on right-to-work law West Virginia Record Online, December 06, 2016 Mark Mix, the president for the National Right to Work Foundation, said in a press release that “Big Labor’s” latest attack on Right to Work…

Milwaukee Newspaper Investigation Shows How Act 10 Reforms Have Changed Wisconsin For the Better

In the summer of 2011, roughly five-and-a-half years ago, Wisconsin became the first state in U.S. history to implement a major legislative rollback of government union bosses’ monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges. The rollback and the comprehensive public-spending reform package of…

Pension Crisis a ‘Direct Consequence’ of Union Bosses’ ‘Enormous Political Power’

In a commentary for the New YorkPost published late last week, American Enterprise Institute adjunct scholar Mike Lilley, tersely describes the horrendous fiscal crisis in which the Garden State finds itself: New Jersey has a severe pension crisis: Its unfunded…

NILRR Right to Work News Clips, November 30, 2016

  Statement to the Workers at Chicago O’Hare International Airport National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Online, November 28, 2016 According to reports, workers at O’Hare International Airport have been ordered by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) union bosses…

Most-Indebted States Favor Forced Dues

A recent report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) adds to the evidence that government union officials endowed with monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges routinely wield them to jack up governments’ long-term spending commitments. As a consequence of Big Labor’s…

Workers and Their Family Members Have Just Been Forced to Bankroll a Presidential Ticket They Opposed

From exit polls and other readily accessible data, it’s easy to ascertain that the vast majority of unionized employees, their spouses, and other adults living in their households either backed Republican Donald Trump, Libertarian Gary Johnson, Green Jill Stein, or…

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