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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…
According to a survey conducted in the 20 largest U.S. housing markets in early 2014, 10% of America’s 42 million would like to buy a home within the next 12 months. (See the first link below for more information.) And…
During the Great Depression, the U.S. Congress enacted many laws intended to foster economic recovery by restricting marketplace competition. Today, there is a wide consensus among historians, economists, and political scientists, including many who support the New Deal on the…
Two Wisconsin unions failed to file a timely petition to represent several government employees, as required by Act 10. TheWisconsin Public Relations Commission is sticking to its guns, and the law. Molly Williams has the story in Courthouse News. The…
Public Unions vs. the Public Wall Street Journal Online, January 15, 2015 The facts: Public-sector unions are not underdogs. . . As Mr. DiSalvo shows, public-sector unions are also rich. Taken together, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually…