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Big Labor ‘Think Tank’ Ignores Large Negative Correlation Between Forced Unionism and Construction Employee Compensation Growth

In a 2010 article for the International Journal of Epidemiology, Donna Spiegelman of the Harvard School of Public Health observed: The adage ‘correlation is not causation’ has been repeated so often that another salient feature of the relationship of correlation…

Union Boss: “By Signing the Negatives Go Away”

Operating Engineers’ unionbossthreatensa nonunion conractor who questions the benefit of using union labor. Michael J. Caggiano was also convicted of misdemeanor assault onnonunion contractor Timothy Such, whose business is now defunct. Phil Fairbanks has the story in The Buffalo News.…

Combination of ‘Forced Silence,’ ‘Forced Subsidization’ Exacerbates ‘First Amendment Problem’

In Harris v Quinn, a potentially landmark federal lawsuit, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys are representing, free of charge, a group of Illinois home care providers who do not believe they should be forced to join or…

NILRR Weekly News Clips, February 7, 2014

Worker Advocate Reacts to Volkswagen’s Request for NLRB Union Election www.nrtw.org, February 3, 2014 Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement after the announcement today that Volkswagen America has petitioned the National Labor…

Pyongyang, Tennessee?

  German union boss Detlef Wetzel of Germany’s IG Metall, compared nonunionized Southern states to North Korea. Huh? Yes. Holman Jenkins, Jr., has the story in the Wall Street Journal. North Korea? That’s the analogy Germany’s top labor leader recently…

Message to UAW Boss Darin Gilley: Missouri’s Extremely Slow Labor-Force Growth Is a Sign of Economic Weakness, Not Strength

One obvious, but often overlooked, fact about the unemployment trend in any one of the 50 states over time is that it is the result of two key inputs: employment growth, and labor-force growth. In America, people in general, and…

Big Labor Payback not Paying Enough Back

Union bosses are becoming disillusioned with President Obama’s actions. Steve Mufson and Tom Hamburger have the story in the Washington Post. Labor leaders who have spent months lobbying unsuccessfully for special protections under the Affordable Care Act warned this week…

Missouri Committee Chairman to Bring Right to Work Bill

State Representative Bill Lant, Chairman of the Workforce Development and Safety Committee intends to bring3 Right To Work before the legislature this session. Dave Horvath has the story in the Neosha News. District 159 State Rep. Bill Lant of Seneca…

Union Boss Testifies on Union Violence

James Minter, former union organizer, recounted a reign of terror for nonunion employers, including threatening letters and ruining expensive construction machines at nonunon sites. Phil Fairbanks has the story in The Buffalo News. James L. Minter III was at the…

January Issue of Labor Watch Highlights Two Important Supreme Court Cases Concerning Employees’ Personal Freedom

The January edition of Labor Watch, published by the Washington, D.C.-based Capital Research Center, features a lead article and a sidebar by Institute Senior Research Associate Stan Greer regarding two important cases recently heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and…

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