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NILRR Right to Work Clipsheet October 30, 2015

Union calls for full investigation into Housing Authority of Baltimore City Baltimore Sun Online, October 23, 2015 Union leader Glenard S. Middleton called Thursday for a “full investigation” into the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, following allegations some maintenance workers…

UAW Attempts Chattanooga Again

UAW union officials are once again attempting to organize the Volkswagen automobile factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The first attemptto organize the plantin 2014 failed,butUAW officials are back for another round. Christina Rogers has the story in The Wall Street Journal Online.…

College-Educated Americans Keep Flocking to Right to Work States

Recently-updated data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) show that adults with a bachelor’s degree or more education continue to flock to states that protect the individual employee’s freedom to get and keep a job regardless of…

NILRR Right to Work Clipsheet

  Unions Are Choking Reform Efforts At The VA, Says Committee Chairman The Daily Caller Online, October 22, 2015 There are a quarter of a million union members that work for the Department of Veterans Affairs,” he told The Washington…

Outflow of Income From Forced-Unionism States Accelerates When National Economy Is Expanding

As this web site reported early last month (see the first link below for more information), interstate migration data furnished by the IRS’s Statistics of Income (SOI) division show that, between 2012 and 2013 alone, the 26 states that still…

Harris Decision Freeing Workers

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s victory in the Harris v. Quinn case before the Supreme Court is freeing thousands of workers from having to pay tribute to unions they never wanted to join or support in the…

NILRR Right to Work Clipsheet October 16, 2015

ABC Driver Discriminated Against by Teamsters Union Bosses Finally Awarded Back Pay After Union Appeals Fail nrtw.org, October 14, 2015 After six years of legal maneuvering, Teamster Local 509 union officials are finally paying a worker more than $55,000 in…

PA Big Labor Spends in PA Against Right to Work

Big Labor officials arespending moneyon Pennsylvania’s State Supreme Court races in early November,attempting to keep forced dues alive and wellfor the Keystone State. John Finnerty has the story in the Meadeville Tribune Online. Believing political influence of the state Supreme…

“Official Time” Law Challenged in Nevada

Las Vegas police union officials are filing a federal lawsuit over a new law which severely restricts their ability to use union “official time”. So called “Official time” allows union officials to conduct union business while being paid full salary…

‘Members-Only Unions Are Not a Theoretical Construct or Historical Remnant’

An issue brief published early this month by the New York City-based and Big Labor-“friendly” Century Foundation (see the link below to read the whole thing) discusses a labor-relations topic that, as coauthors Moshe Marvit and Leigh Anne Schriever acknowledge…

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