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The Freedom to Refrain

National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix calls upon the National Labor Relations Board to preserve a worker’s right to refrain from union membership. The story appears in the Pittsburgh Tribune. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the principal…

On the Waterfront, Continued

Three New Jersey International Longshoreman’s Association bosses have pleaded guilty to various threats to union members to pay “tribute.” Thomas Zambito has the story in the Star-Ledger. Three former officials with the International Longshoremen’s Association union pleaded guilty today to…

NILRR Weekly News Clips May 23, 2014

  Top federal leaders suggest dismissal of lawsuit against UAW/VW nooga.com, May 23, 2014 Patrick Semmens, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation, said in a prepared statement that: This extremely unusual move by the Obama administration to…

Union Shoots Down Higher Wages

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23 has taken Gian Eagle Foods to court over raises the grocery store gave some union members. James Sherk questions if unions really do speak for their members in The Foundry. Managers at the…

Grocery Union Bosses Force Members and Nonmembers Alike to Pay For Mendacious and Cynical TV Ads

Back in 2010, Pennsylvanians who are fed up with the inordinate power wielded by Big Labor over their state’s economy and government elected a GOP governor and gave the same party control over both chambers of the General Assembly in…

Teamsters Trick Unsuspecting Worker into Signing

A cautionary tale abouta worker who inadvertentlysigned cards supporting the Teamsters. Sean Higgins has the story in the Washington Examiner. Florida bus driver April Perez was a vocal opponent of having a union at her workplace, Durham School Services. She…

Michigan Right to Work Law Frees Workers

The Wall Street Journal reports how workers in Michigan left the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in droves after passage of the 2012 Right to Work law passed in Michigan. The dramatic decrease in membership serves to prove that if…

States With ‘Exceptional Patterns of Out-Migration’ Are Overwhelmingly Forced-Unionism

Last week, Tax Foundation blogger Lyman Stone contributed an informative five-part series on the economic significance of interstate migration by taxpayers and their dependents. As Stone’s final post in the series (see the link below) pointed out, a number of…

How Much Has Athens (Ohio) News Editor Terry Smith Actually Thought About the Right to Work Issue?

Like many media apologists for compulsory unionism, Athens (Ohio) News editor Terry Smith is adept at sneering at people who don’t share his views. But his ability to do even minimal research on the topic about which he recently wrote…

Rising Compensation For Public Servants Relies on a Growing Private Sector

Many proponents of small government may find it hard to believe that the total compensation of America’s private-sector employees grew more rapidly over the past decade than did the total compensation of state and local government employees. That is indeed…

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