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The Wall Street Journal Editorial Staff comments on the NLRB decision to classify college football players as employees for the purposes of union organizing. Reviewing the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s Brown Decision from 2004, the staff makes…
Steve Malanga reviews how Phoenix, Arizona’s public sector pension costs have risen phenomenally in 3 years. Read the full story in publicsectorinc.org. Pension costs are up about 40 percent in just three years, and they now gobble up about $250…
Michael Saltsman uncovers the truth behind the so-called rallies union bosses have been trying to attribute to fast food and other retail workers. His story appears on triblive.com. Did you hear about last week’s union-organized protests at fast food restaurants?…
Pro-Union Monopoly Statutes Menace U.S. Cities www.nrtw.org, March 27, 2014 In addition to affirming the Motor City’s insolvency, Judge Rhodes made it clear that Detroit has the legal authority to reduce public employee pension benefits negotiated by government union…
Asthe AFL-CIO hierarchy and its alliespush for minimum-wage hikes in state after state, union spokesmen and their allies repeatedly invoke the high cost of living in forced-unionism states in the Northeast andin the Pacificwestern statesas grounds for hiking the amount…
Citing data released by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis earlier the same day, on March 25 James Hohman of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy reported that, in the aggregate, personal income (unadjusted for inflation) grew by…
Once again the Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken up the “ambush” rule, allowing union bosses free rein to do whatever it takes to win a representation election. Karl Hororwitz has the story in his blog at National…
Kevin Mooney reviews the connidition of home child care providers and the litigation fighting for freedom on behalf of these workers. The full story appears on AmericanThinker.com. Without a steady stream of water and electricity, child-care service providers who typically…
The title says it all. Economist Allison Schrager uses the UAW representation election failure at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant to illustrate how union bosses can no longer ensure job security for members. Another so-called “union benefit” goes down the…