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Right to Work Clipsheet November 20, 2015

Friedrichs Amicus Brief: National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation onlabor.org, November 18, 2015 “This point is dispositive,” the foundation claims, because “Abood’s ‘free rider’ rationale is predicated on the opposite presumption: that exclusivity is a burden imposed on unions…

The ‘Facile Generalization That There Is No Constitutionally Protected Right to Public Employment Is to Obscure the Issue’

In their November 6 merits brief in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association (accessible at the first link below), a team of government union lawyers led by David Frederick of the Inside-the-D.C. Beltway firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans &…

NILRR Right to Work Clipsheet November 13, 2015

UMWA endorses Jim Justice for governor WV Metro News, November 12, 2015 When asked about how he would handle a right-to-work bill as governor, Justice said he would veto it. Why bond-buyers prefer red states Your Daily Journal Online, November…

Teacher Union Lawyers Tacitly Admit Many Educators Get Paid Less as a Consequence of Monopolistic Unionism

Under an array of federal court precedents such as Atkins v. City of Charlotte and the labor statutes of every state in the union, K-12 public educators have the right to join and financially support a union without being fired…

Right to Work for New Mexico

David Dowd Muska writes on the advantage a Right to Work law would bring to New Mexico. New Mexico doesn’t have a jobs problem. It has a jobs crisis. There are many tools state policymakers can use to restore vibrant…

Forced-Unionism States Are Extraordinarily Inhospitable to ‘Middle-Educated’ Americans

As of last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 30.1% of American adults aged 25 and up had at least a bachelor’s degree education. Census data also show that states with Right to Work laws on the books prohibiting…

PA Home Care Workers Hustled

United Home Care Workers, a joint project of the ServiceEmployees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) pulled an ambush electionon Pennsylvania home care workers, where only about thirteen percent of the involved…

Bosses Shake Down McDonald’s

Using a U. S. District judge to do its dirty work, the National Labor Relations Board is shaking down McDonald’s employees by forcing their employer to render up their personal emails. Daniel Weissner has the story on reuters.com. A U.S.…

Compulsory Unionism Hurts Hispanics & Poor

New Fact Sheet: Forced Unionism Correlated With Higher Poverty Rates Hispanic Americans Are 20% More Likely to Be Poor in States That Don’t Protect Employees’ Right to Work By Stan Greer The share of a state’s population that is poor,…

Longshoremen’s Association Endorses Hillary Clinton

International Longshoreman’sAssociation (ILA) officials madeit clear they mean to consolidate their power by announcingtheir endorsement of Hillary Clinton in Right to Work South Carolina.She peppered her acceptance speech with references toThe Palmetto State being a Right to Work state. Schulyer…

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