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Government Union Bosses Battle to Keep Massachusetts Teachers Under Their Control

From the 2000-2001 through the 2015-2016 school years, enrollment in charter schools across the U.S. skyrocketed from 400,000 to 2.9 million. During the 2015-2016 academic year alone, more than 400 new charter schools opened. Charters are public institutions that furnish…

Big Labor Pushed California Taxpayers Into $241,000,000,000 Hole

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…

Even Wall Street Isn’t Immune From Forced-Unionism Ills

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…

Lose Your Freedom, Then Forfeit Part of Your Paycheck?

For decades, Right to Work supporters have known government-authorized “exclusive” union representation turns dissenting employees into Big Labor’s “captive passengers.” The employees’ personal liberty is denied. Legislation that grants agents of private organizations, known as unions, to exclusively negotiate with…

Big Labor Representation Without Benefit

Can Big Labor Representation That Cuts Your Pay Really Be a Benefit? Even Pro-Forced Unionism California Attorney General and U.S. Senate Candidate Kamala Harris Admits Labor Laws Give Union Bosses ‘Substantial Latitude to Advance Bargaining Positions’ That Hurt Talented Employees…

Faster Growth in Right To Work States Benefits

Right To Work States Benefit from Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power — Summer 2016 Update (click here to download and share the Right To Work States Benefit from Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power Fact Sheet) * The term…

Union Militants Chortle about Justice Scalia’s Death

Union bosses love collecting forced union dues and fees from employees, and loathe people who get in their way, or even signal they might get in the way. That’s why, a few days ago, a crowd of Ohio AFL-CIO officials…

Rank-and-File Unionists Overwhelmingly Disagree With AFL-CIO Czar About Right to Work Laws

While professional political pundits like to think of unionized workers and their family members as a “voting bloc,” the fact is that on a wide array of issues the views of the union rank and file as a group don’t…

Federal Data Indicate Forced Unionism Helped Impoverish Monessen, Pa.

With Pennsylvania emerging as a potential “battleground” state in the fall 2016 presidential contest, the Trump and Clinton campaigns are both claiming they will, if elected, revive the fortunes of the former steel towns along the Monongahela River. Economically depressed…

INVALID — Two Courts Blast Obama DOL For Rewriting Federal Law

Late last month, federal judges in courts located more than 1100 miles from one another sharply chastised Obama-appointed U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez for attempting, by bureaucratic fiat, to prevent employees from hearing all the key relevant facts before they…

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