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New Mexico Union Bosses Defend Alleged Violent Perpetrator

New Mexicotaxpayers are at the mercy of public employee monopoly bargaining agreements which forced Bernalillo County officials to keep a corrections officer whose victims were awarded almost $1 million as settlement to 3 of his alleged victims. The Editorial Board…

Pennsylvania Bus Drivers Just Say “No”

Bus drivers for the Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, school district just said “no” to union representation. Aided by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys, these “Papertown” bus drivers obtained a legitimate decertification of the union bosses who claimed ot…

Even in Right to Work States, It’s Very Likely More Employees Pay Union Dues Than Benefit From ‘Exclusive’ Union Representation

In December 2012, union-label Michigan U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D) spoke for many politicians who share his views on labor policy when he decried the announcement by the GOP governor from his home state, Rick Snyder, that he would sign…

NLRB Fumbles

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…

Phoenix Residents Paying Outsize Pension Promises

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…

Grass Roots Activism-Union Boss Style

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?…

NILRR Weekly Clipsheet March 28, 2014

  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…

Nine of the 10 Top-Ranking States For 2013 Cost of Living-Adjusted Disposable Income Have Right to Work Laws

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…

From 2003-3013, Real Private-Sector Compensation Growth in Right to Work States Was Nearly Twice as Great as in Forced-Unionism States

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…

NLRB Approves Pro-Union “Ambush Election” Final Rule

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…

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