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Last week, over at the National Right to Work Committee blog, I used the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation’s late March report on “Tax Freedom Day, 2015” to show that the average total tax burden for Right to Work state residents…
Former labor union official pleads guilty in federal database case Buffalo News Online, April 09, 2015 Jeffrey A. Peterson, 51, of Freedom, a former business agent of Local 17 of the Operating Engineers International, AFL-CIO, pleaded guilty Thursday before Senior…
Boone County becomes Kentucky’s 11th county to pass a local Right to Work law. Don Weber has the story on mycn2.com. Boone County is the largest county in the state to pass such an ordinance, and the first in Northern…
Philadelphia Ironworkers Local 401 James Walsh will serve three years in federal prison and will repay $128,000 in restitution for his part in a reign of terror throughout Philadelphia against nonunion construction sites and workers.Julie Shaw has the story onphillynews.com…
Taxpayers are subsidizing a Yakima, Washington teacher union official’s salary for time spent on union official business, in direct violation of Washington state law, and the school board seems to have no interest in investigating the legitimacy of the scheme.…
An ever-growing mountain of scholarly research and countless ordinary Americans’ personal experience confirm that nominal income per capita, unadjusted for regional differences in the cost of living, is quite misleading as a gauge of living standards within a state. Forced-unionism…
For decades, Big Labor bosses have sought to perpetuate and expand upon their special legal privileges to get workers fired for refusal to join or bankroll a union they don’t want, and never asked for, by impugning the motives of…
U. S. Steel is establishing two more plants in Alabama, a Right to Work state. This is an example of another big industry leaving a forced-dues state for the freedom of a Right to Work state,another industry leavingnon-right to Work…
Today’s decision by a judge in the Dane County Circuit rejecting union officials’ request for an injunction to stop Wisconsin’s new Right to Work law from taking effect underscores the uphill battle Big Labor faces in trying to get this…