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NILRR Weekly News Clips, January 24, 2014

  Unions Raise More than 80 Percent of Cash Raised for San Diego Dem National Review Online, January 20, 2014 Four out of every five dollars spent to support one of the leading candidates to fill disgraced San Diego mayor…

Study reveals SEIU Took Millions from Caregivers

Millions of forced dues dollars have been siphoned into the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) from 2008 until 2013. Daniel Greenfield has the story in Frontpagemag.com. Elections aren’t cheap. Neither are bribes. The money has to come from somewhere. And…

Union Bosses Pour Money into California Mayoral Campaign

Millions in forced dues are beingpoured into the San Diego mayoral race by unionbosses. Mark Walker of UTSanDiego.com, has the story: Of the more than $3.3 million Alvarez and independent expenditure committees working on his behalf have amassed since the…

Background on Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court Case

National Right to Work President Mark Mix reviews the background on the upcoming Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court case, in the Washington Times. Today, more than 18 states have laws on the books explicitly requiring all or some public employees…

NRTW Foundation Argues Another Supreme Court Case

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorney, Bill Messenger, explainsthe latest Supreme Court case brought by that organization.Bill McMorris has the story in the Washington Free Beacon. The Supreme Court will hear arguments about forced unionization among government workers…

Forced-Unionism Statutes Suppress Job Growth in Many Business Sectors, Including Traditionally Union-Free Ones

Today apologists for compulsory union dues and fees often suggest that, because only a little more than seven percent of private-sector employees in the U.S. are covered by a union contract according to the most recent available data, there is…

‘The Silent Majority Would Like to See Bankruptcy’

Famous fictional Scrantonian Michael Scott tried out an impromptu oral declaration of bankruptcy when he faced financial difficulties in Season Four of “The Office” (NBC-TV), but it turned out all he needed to do was to rein in his household’s…

‘[I]f You’re Looking at an Illegal Means and a Legal End, You’ll Be OK’

In a trial that began this week at a federal court in Buffalo, N.Y., union lawyers are insisting that a four-decade-old U.S. Supreme Court decision gives construction union bosses a license to use violence and threats as organizing tactics without…

Future Employees, Employers Are Migrating to Right to Work States

Compulsory-Unionism States’ ‘Under 18’ Population Is on Track to Plummet by 2.16 Million From 2010 to 2020 By Stan Greer (Click to download Adobe pdf file) U.S. Census Bureau data covering the period from July 1, 2010 to July 1,…

Families With Children Keep Fleeing Forced-Unionism States

Yesterday the U.S. Census Bureau offered a preview of its age-segregated population data for the 50 states as of last summer by publishing the voting-age (18 and over) and total populations for every state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto…

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