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Union Nonmembers Are’Made Worse Off’ Monopolistic Unionism Hurts Talented Employees Economically, and Top Union Officials Seem Aware of That (Click to download Fact Sheet) By Stan Greer Because the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) empowers union bosses to represent workers…
Scranton police/fire unions get $21M judgment against city; may … Scranton, a modest-sized city of roughly 76,000, but nevertheless the largest in Northeastern Pennsylvania, has been struggling for decades. Scranton’s current population is barely half of what it was at the…
Why Should the Government Prevent Union Members from Earning RAISEs? Most Americans who aren’t close observers of labor-management relations assume that, whatever other faults they may have, union officials can at least be counted upon to fight consistently for higher…
State Teacher Union Strength and Student Achievement While grass-roots opponents of compulsory unionism tend to focus on the simple unfairness of laws and legislation under which the individual employee’s Right to Work is contingent on forking over dues or fees…
TheNortheast is getting older, and it’s going to cost them In 1990, Florida had already long been established as a mecca for retirees weary of snow and ice, and, with a median age of 36.2, according to the U.S. Census…
Rex Obama and SCOTUS’ Labor Pains : The Freeman : Foundation … It seems incredible that two and a quarter centuries after the Constitution was ratified, it is falling upon the U.S. Supreme Court this fall to determine whether or not the…
Teacher pensions are a bad deal for teachers- Public Sector Inc… A new study prepared for the Manhattan Institute (MI) by Marcus Winters and Josh McGee, and summarized in a post last week for the MI’s Public Sector Inc. blog…
Big labor’s federal union violence exemption has cost workers their lives The Daily Caller Online, August 30, 2013 Many Americans believe that union violence is a thing from a long-ago era in labor relations. Sadly, on Labor Day 2013,…
Right-to-Work Debate Heats Up in Missouri – The Missourian: State … As I often point out in blog posts on this web page, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) hands union officials a number of extraordinary special privileges vis-a-vis employees as well as employers.…
Mark Mix, President, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Labor Day is about celebrating workers, not union bosses. But as union bosses rush for face time to show they “stand with workers,” what is often forgotten on Labor Day…