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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…
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…
For roughly half a century, government union bosses in Wisconsin wielded statutory power to act as public educators’ “exclusive” bargaining agents with school officials regarding matters of pay, benefits, and work rules. And for roughly four decades starting in 1971,…
As the National Institute for Labor Relations Research reported early this year (see the first link below for more information), state and local taxes consume, on average, a 25% higher share of personal income in forced-unionism states than in Right…
In a lawsuit filed early this week, Philadelphian Joshua Keesee, who owns and runs a small, union-freeelectrical contracting business, charges that union bigwig John Dougherty sucker punched him and broke his nosein January.When that failed to cowKeesee to Dougherty’s satisfaction,…
Who benefits from the federal labor laws that authorize union officials to act as the “exclusive” (monopoly) bargaining agents of all the front-line employees in a business with regard to their pay, benefits, and work rules? Early this year, three…
A detailed investigative report by Jack Dolan appearing this past weekend in the L.A. Times (use the link below to read the whole thing) shows how government union bosses have wielded their forceddues-derived political clout and their statutory monopoly-bargaining privileges…
Largely due to the inordinate clout of Big Labor’s forced union dues-funded political machine over New York’s elected officials, the Empire State’s employees, business owners, and other taxpayers have long been saddled with extraordinarily high taxes and excessive regulations. But…