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Ever since Congress adopted the Norris-LaGuardia Act and Republican President Herbert Hoover signed it into law in 1932, federal policy has explicitly declared that private-sector workplace contracts in which employees agree not to join or financially support a union in…
VW recognizes anti-UAW worker group ACE at Tennessee plant Reuters.com, February 16, 2014 Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) said on Monday it had recognized a new group called the American Council of Employees to represent workers at its auto assembly plant in…
Hoppy Kercheval, West Virginia Metro News Online, discusses the economic impact of the state’s prevailing wage law, and the importance of SB 361, a bill which would modify the current law. West Virginia State Code 21-5a, enacted in 1933 and…
Steven Walters predicts the Wisconsin legislature will seriously consider the Right to Work Bill during this session. The list of other major decisions that Republican legislators will be making–and many of them in the next few months–is stunning: — Right-to-work…
Trey Kovaks, workplacechoice.org, explains why some Missouri Democrat legislators are doingall they can to keep a Right to Work law from passing in Missouri. Despite the compelling evidence that right-to-work improves workers’ quality of life, Democrats will continue their efforts…
Scott Reeder, veteran statehouse reporter, comments on Governor Bruce Rauner’s executive order freeing Illinois state employees from paying forced dues.The order was prompted by the Supreme Court Harris v. Quinn case,brought by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. This…
Illinois Governor Fights Forced Unionism Western Journalism.com, February 11, 2015 Patrick Semmens of the National Right to Work Foundation commented on Rauner’s executive order: “This executive action is a bold step to protect the rights of Illinois state employees from…
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently released data reporting the average number of residents in each of the 50 states who over the course of the 2014…
Laborers have no say in their contract U-T SanDiego.com, February 4, 2015 Farm laborers at one of the nation’s largest fruit farms, Gerawan Farming, have been pleading with the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board – an agency formed, ironically, to…
(National Institute for Labor Relations ResearchFact Sheet) Recent State Election Returns Indicate Support For Right to Work Is an Increasingly Valuable Political Asset By Stan Greer On June 5, 2012, Badger State Republican Scott Walker became the first governor in…