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Within the next few weeks, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision regarding whether key provisions of the three-and-a-half-year-old budgetary and public-labor-policy reform known as Act 10 violate either the Wisconsin or the U.S. Constitution. And, as…
Rock-ribbed proponents of the American employee’s personal freedom to join or not a join a union and dyed-in-the-wool advocates of compulsory unionism alike are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court case Harris v. Quinn, in which a…
Though the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis has yet to issue its estimates for manufacturing output of motor vehicles, bodies and trailers, and parts manufacturing in the 50 states in 2013 (see the link below for data for…
New UAW president, Dennis Williams, facing declining membership and arecent failed organizing campaign, vows to tolerate no concessions in future negotiations. United Auto Worker rank and file members believeWilliams can turnthe union’s fortunes afterUAW bosses were defeated in anorganizing campaignat…
The school board of Sauk Prairie, Wisconsin, has ignored stipulations of Act 10 and taken up a potentially illegal monopoly bargaining union contract. If enforced, the contract could once again force teachers into compulsory unionism, and cost taxpayers who would…
Taxpayers, through the Department of Labor, could be sponsoring union organizing under the auspices of an apprenticeship program to train home care workers. These apprentices are likely to be forced into paying dues to the SEIU after they take up…
Courts are increasingly finding union-led demonstrations violatenumerous laws. Ryan Williams has the story in The Hill. Last year the state’s Benton County Circuit Court issued a restraining order prohibiting the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and its…
CongressmanJeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs (VA), has requested that all VAemployees performing “official time” or union work, return to tending to VA affairs. With 271 employees devoted solely to working on union businesss, the Department…