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Right to Work Kansas Is Eating Forced-Unionism Missouri’s ‘Economic Lunch’

Border-County Data Strengthen Case That Right to Work Law Would Boost Missouri’s Private-Sector Job Growth By Stan Greer (Download Pdf version of Fact Sheet) This winter, grass-roots proponents of making Missouri America’s 25th Right to Work state are facing off…

Union Political Power Stronger Than Ever

An editorial from the Orange County Register outlines why Big Labor must rely on its political power. Despite favoritism from the Obama administration – privileging the United Auto Workers over secured creditors in the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies; steering stimulus…

Pro-Forced Unionism Columnist Bill Knight Begs a Key Question in the Harris Case

At the January 21 hearing in the U.S. Supreme Court case Harris v. Quinn, Justice Sam Alito repeatedly grilled Service Employees International Union (SEIU) lawyer Paul Smith about whether it is permissible, under the First Amendment, for the government to…

NILRR Weekly Newsclips February 21, 2014

Clock ticking for UAW to file objection in VW Chattanooga vote Times Free Press Online, February 19, 2014 Raudabaugh, who does work for the anti-union National Right to Work Foundation, said if the board holds a hearing on an objection…

Forced-Unionism States Were on Average 21% More Costly to Live in Than Right to Work States in 2013

Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) published its latest set of comparative cost-of-living indices for the 50 states. (See the link below.) MERIC’s new indices estimate the average annual cost of living in 2013 for…

Former Union Member Recounts Reign of Terror in New York

A former union member recounts union bosses’ reign of terror in Northern New York against nonunion contactors. Phil Fairbanks has the story in the Buffalo News. Even more important, perhaps, they were co-defendants in a criminal prosecution that rocked the…

Protected: Big Labor Prairie State ‘Think Tanker’ Plays His Cards Close to the Vest

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VW workers reject UAW organizing drive at Tenn. plant

The workers at Volkswagen, Chattanooga, have spoken. Gabe Nelson has the story in Automotive News. Workers at Volkswagen AG’s plant here voted to reject UAW representation, dealing a devastating loss to a union that saw the Tennessee factory as its…

Former Labor Secretary Mentioned in Suit by Rank And File

Rank and file members of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) have filed suit against Vice President William Wagonner, alleging he embezzled money from Former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who made no secret of her ties to Big Labor,…

TN taxpayers subsidize UAW outrage at VW plant

Tennessee taxpayers have poured more than a half-billion dollars in incentives into the Volkswagen plant. Matt Patterson tells the story in the Tenneseean.com. In fact, the more than a half-billion dollars in subsidies that the company received to come to…

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