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One book that every citizen who is interested in debating the question of voluntary versus compulsory union membership ought to review and ponder is Dr. Sheldon Leader’sFreedom of Association: A Study in Labor Law and Political Theory. Leader is a…
Symposium: Will the Court continue to recognize a distinction between bargaining with government and lobbying the government? SCOTUSblog.com, August 25, 2015 Leaving aside the positive impact on public policy of reducing the unique power and financial resources of public-sector unions,…
Florida is one of just a handful of states in which the monopoly-bargaining privileges of government union officials, including teacher union bosses, are constitutionally enshrined. In practice, what this means is that in order to eliminate or even roll back…
AZ Court Rejects Taxpayers Pay for Union Workers Washington Free Beacon Online, August 12, 2015 The Arizona Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association (PLEA) wrongfully used taxpayer dollars to pay union representatives who had ceased…
An editorial in the Chicago Tribune outlines the state’s creeping budget crisis and the role of government employee unions in the debacle. Even state legislators are beginning to question union bosses’ absolute power which keeps the state’s coffers plummeting. The…
Supreme Court upholds right-to-work for state workers freep.com, July 29, 2015 The Michigan Supreme Court, in an opinion that has the effect of making state employees subject to Michigan’s 2012 right-to-work law, ruled Wednesday that Michigan’s Civil Service Commission never…
Michigan Hospital Employees Win Settlement After SEIU Union Bosses Blocked Workers from Exercising Right to Work www.nrtw.org, July 23, 2015 Seven workers at Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe, MI have won a settlement from Service Employees International Union Local 79…
Greg Mourad, Vice President of the National Right to Work Committee, explains why laws before the California legislature will harm workers on Watchdog.org. Small businesses in California will suffer, closing their doors or laying off workers, and the cost of…
For more than 70 years, federal courts have concocted an array of excuses to avoid finding as unconstitutional federal and state statutes that force employers to recognize a single union as the monopoly-bargaining agent of all their front-line employees, including…