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Bid to remove Pa. exemption in labor disputes advances

Pennsylvania union bosses have used a little-knownlegal exemptionto avoid prosecution for stalking and harassment. With the recent spate of violence in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania House has voted to remove that exemption, but notably no politicians from Philadelphia voting in favor…

NILRR Weekly News Clips March 14, 2014

  Right-to-work bill dies in Kentucky House committee wave3.com, March 14, 2014 A Kentucky House committee’s vote killed right-to-work legislation for the rest of the year, but both sides say the issue will play a key role in November’s elections.…

Is It Really News to UAW Bosses That Their Political Partisanship Offends Many Workers?

In a whiny commentary for The American Prospect published three days after workers at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga voted decisively against union monopoly bargaining last month, Harold Meyerson, the leftist magazine’s pro-forced unionism editor-at-large, bemoaned the role “cultural”…

Kentucky needs to be a right to work state

State Represenaatative Sal Santoroexplains why Kentucky should pass a Right to Work Law in cincinnati.com. USA Today recently published a report entitled “The Most Miserable States in the USA” that, based on survey results, ranked Kentucky as the second most…

Union Bosses ‘Are Not Forced by Federal Law to Be Exclusive Bargaining Representatives; They Seek This Power of Their Own Volition’

Ever since then-Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a bill making Indiana America’s 23rd Right to Work state a little more than two years ago, top bosses of suburban Chicago-based Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) have been…

Union Bosses Threaten Harm to Children

Authorities are investigating allegatons of threats and violence to workers as well as their children, in a year-long strike filled with violence and threats. Richard Read has the story on Oregonlive.com The National Labor Relations Board accused longshoremen this week…

The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs

Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel on union political spending and forced dues. It’s an extraordinary thing, in a political age obsessed with campaign money, that nobody scrutinizes the biggest, baddest, “darkest” spenders of all: organized labor. The IRS is muzzling…

NILRR Weekly News Clips March 07, 2014

    The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs Wall Street Journal Online, March 6, 2014 It’s an extraordinary thing, in a political age obsessed with campaign money, that nobody scrutinizes the biggest, baddest, “darkest” spenders of all: organized labor.…

Has Phil Longman Decided the ‘Empty Cradle’ Is a Sound Economic Strategy, After All?

It is a truism that economic statistics are easily susceptible to misinterpretation, and this is perhaps especially true of relative rates of per capita personal income growth in different parts of the U.S. At first glance, a reader of a…

Hofstra University Professor Calls for “Civil Disobedience” to Save Big Labor

University Professor Alan Singer, recommends breaking laws in light toBig Labor’s declining membership, and the Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court decision, inhuffingtonpost.com The entire organized labor movement is in a prolonged state of decline, especially in the private sector as…

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