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James Sherk and Nate Bohlander describe the case of the “missing” teacher. Missing from the classroom, that is, as this teacher currently takes care of union business full time but will enjoy all of the perksof a Pennsylvania teacher courtesy…
Union boss Johnny Dougherty, head of Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, demonstrates his influence on the Philadelphia mayoral election spending hundreds of thousands indues. Brooke Rogers has the story in National Review Online. Kenney’s margin of…
Missouri Governor Nixon’s veto of a Right to Work law earned him a sizeable donation from United Auto Workers’ union bosses. The story appears in the Kansas City Business Journal. A major union showed its gratitude – $50,000 worth –…
Laura Baston recounts her experience as a victim of compulsory unionism in the News Gazette online. In 1989, I worked as an accountant for the Marathon Pipeline company in Martinsville. I had two small children, and like many mothers, I…
According to U.S. Commerce Department data released on June 10,last year a record 47.9% of the entire U.S. manufacturing output, measured in current dollars, occurred in states that had prohibited compulsory union dues and fees. (A link to the entire…
State workers challenge constitutionality of compulsory union fees; Suit says AFSCME doesn’t appreciate state fiscal crisis Madison Record Online, June 10, 2015 State employees who replaced Gov. Bruce Rauner as plaintiffs in a suit against unions have notified a federal…
Former unioncarpenters resigned their membership to work at a nonunion business, and were retaliated against by the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters and their local, just because they wanted to work. The alternative was to remain a union member and…
This story should be entered into Ripley’s “Believe It Or Not.” Union bosses across the country are pushing a minimum wage level of $15 but only for nonunion businesses. Attempting to dress it up as a “fairness” issue, it appears…
Are Right to Work Laws at risk? National Right to Work president Mark Mix and others testified just last week at a hearing in the Education and the Workforce Committee that Right to Work laws in 25 states could be…
Judging by the many publications of the Big Labor-funded Economic Policy Institute, the academics who work or volunteer for this organization love compulsory unionism, and detest income inequality. But the EPI’s own data show that, almost certainly to its chagrin,…