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Right to Work States Offer Competitive Pay, Far Superior Job Opportunities For Teachers

Teacher Salaries By State | Average Salaries For Teachers … TeacherPortal is a website for people who are interested in becoming a teacher and for teachers who are eager to learn how to practice their profession more successfully.  It has no ax…

Teamsters back away from representing O’Hare janitors

It’s difficult to imagine union bosses backing down on an organizing campaign when they will force workers to join or support a labor union in order to keep a job.Dan Mihalopolous has the story in the Chicago Sun-Times. “Please be…

NILRR Weekly News Clips May 17, 2013

  Contra Ezra Klein, Unions Spend Plenty on Politics Heritage.org, May 13 2013 The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein recently lamented that America has “a deeply unbalanced political system.” He highlighted a chart showing that business owners and employees donate billions…

Would Washington Workers Really Rather Fail Than Switch?

While pundits believe Washington state will not pass it, a Right to Work bill has been introduced in the State. Labor bosses, leading legislators around by the nose, fiddle while the Washington’s aerospace industry crashes because they will not pass…

Students Stop Teachers Union From Killing Their Education

A heartwarming story of courage as highschoolers wrest their band, and volunteer teacher from the jaws of the teacher union doomsday machine.    Volunteers are the last thing unions want to see in any field.  Volunteers take away an opportunity for…

Union Bosses Finance Politicians Because it Pays

James Sherk refutes Ezra Klein’s assertion that America has a “. . . deeply unbalanced political system . . .” by highlighting Big Labor’s ability to donate huge “in-kind” contributions and maintaining total control over politicians.  Read more at The…

Exactly How Does the Big Labor-Funded Economic Policy Institute Incorporate Interstate Differences in Living Costs Into Its Data?

State Rep. Ron Maag says employees earn more money in ‘right-to . Two years ago this February, the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which acknowledges it gets a very substantial share of its funding from forced dues-fueled union treasuries, issued…

Freedom of Association ‘Requires That Both Sides Be Heard’

Teamster Freedom of Association Hustle Early this week, the National Institute for Labor Relations Research had the honor of publishing “The Teamster Freedom of Association Hustle,” a new scholarly paper by noted classical-liberal economist Charles Baird. (See the link above.)…

Live Free or Move

John Stossel talks about why people are moving from forced-dues states to many Right to Work states even as the economy shows signs of strengthening in realclearpolitics. Forty-three million Americans moved from one state to another between 1995 and 2010…

NILRR Weekly News Clips May 10, 2013

    Kansas outperforms ranking on employment Topeka Capital Journal Online, May 4, 2013 Factors considered in the report are the state’s highest personal income tax rate, highest corporate income tax rate, personal income tax progressivity (meaning how much more…

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