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VA Gov-Elect Meeing With Union Officials Already

Virginia Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe is wasting no time , meeting withOld Dominionlaborofficials barely 2 weeks after the election. What’s the rush? Anna Palmer has the answer on Politico.com The facetime with union heads is notable because Virginia is a “right…

Sorry, Leo Gerard, Employers Can and Do ‘Bribe’ Union Bosses by Helping Them Seize Monopoly Power Over Employees

Six years ago, then-U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens recognized, in writing for a 7-2 majority in U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. Brown, that under federal labor law employees have an “underlying right to receive information opposing unionization.” This…

Government Employee Pension Funds Force Bankruptcy

An editorial in USA Today reviews the bad news about government employee union pension funds, which are seriously underfunded in many cities and states. It is interesting to note that all of the states where bankruptcies have occurred were forced…

Organized Labor Looking to Defeat Ohio’s Governor in 2014

Vindy.com Fresh from the heady defeat of Toledo Mayor Mike Bell,Ohio labor union bosses are setting their sights on the 2014 gubernatorial race. Bellsupported Governor John Kasich’s attempt to restrict government employee union monopoly bargaining in Ohio. While the attempt…

Wisconsin Union Thugs Threaten Governor over Act 10

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recounts the threats to his family’s safety after passage of Act 10, which severely limited the scope of monopoly bargaining for government employee unions, and gave teachers right to work freedom as well. Tal Kopan has…

Public Servants Have Far Fewer Opportunities For Advancement in States With Pervasive Government Unionism

Most Americans today believe, with ample justification, that government is too big and tries to do too much, and therefore it may seem surprising at first that, according to new and revised data from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of…

Pennsylvania Teacher Union Officials Hurting Students

Matt Brouillette of the Commonwealth Foundation, demonstrates how teacher union officials are hurting students by preventing school reform, and pressing more and more teachers into paying for agendas they do not believe in. But, then, Pennsylvania allows union officials to…

NILRR Weekly News Clips, November 15, 2013

      U.S. Supreme Court To Consider Breaking Up The Union Boss “Neutrality Agreement” Racket biglaborbailout.com, November 13, 2013 It’s the little known Unite Here Local 355 vs. Mulhall case which might end up packing a lot of legal…

Other Things Being Equal, Poverty Is Clearly Lower in Right to Work States

If Right to Work laws had no economic impact whatsoever, the share of people residing in Right to Work states who are poor would surely be higher by roughly a percentage point than the share of people residing in states…

German Unions are Working with UAW to Organize Auto Industry

Auto factories in the South are facing an onslaught of organizing drives from the desperate United Auto Workers’ labor bosses. Now their efforts are being boosted by German auto workers, for their own selfish reasons. Neal E. Boudette has the…

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