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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…

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…

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