Posts

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…

AFL-CIO-Backed Study Shows Minimum-Wage Earners, Along With Almost Everybody Else, Are Better Off in Right to Work States

When they are making propagandistic economic arguments against Right to Work laws and legislation, AFL-CIO union officials nd their allies routinely pretend either that there is no difference whatsoever between the aggregate cost of living for states with such statutes…

NILRR Weekly News Clips, February 28, 2014

  Hofstra Univ. professor calls for “aggressive, illegal actions” in response to Harris vs. Quinn Illinoisreviewtypepad.com, February 23, 2014 CHICAGO – Yesterday, Dr. Alan Singer, a Professor of Secondary Education at Hofstra University, called for “aggressive, illegal actions” as “the…

Supreme Court Decision Justifies Union Violence

This Washington Times editorial explains how the Enmons Supreme Court Decision justifies union violence, and reviews the burning of a Quaker Church by THUGs. NILRR provided statistics for the article. Burning down a church strikes most Americans, including dissenters and…

AFL-CIO Targeting 5 Governors

The AFL-CIO will target 5 governors who have supported efforts to free workers. Yolanda Weinberger has the story in Wisconsinfree.com. Five Republican governors who have supported legislation unpopular with labor unions are on a ‘Big Labor political hit list’. Recently…

NY Teacher Union Defies Police, Protects Heroin-Using School Teacher; Parents Furious

Here’s another example of teacher union bosses protecting their own interests over that of the students and the public. It seems teacher union bosses of Fallsburg, New York, now have authority over even the police. Union officials in the town…

Ironworkers Local is Stuck at an Earlier Evolutionary State

Karen Heller delves into details of the Reign of Terror perpetrated by Ironworkers Local 401 bosses in the Philadelphia area, in Philadelphia Inquirer.   The Ironworkers were such busy, industrious goons. They allegedly destroyed sites and threatened developers who dared…

Right to Work Kansas Is Eating Forced-Unionism Missouri’s ‘Economic Lunch’

Border-County Data Strengthen Case That Right to Work Law Would Boost Missouri’s Private-Sector Job Growth By Stan Greer (Download Pdf version of Fact Sheet) This winter, grass-roots proponents of making Missouri America’s 25th Right to Work state are facing off…

Union Political Power Stronger Than Ever

An editorial from the Orange County Register outlines why Big Labor must rely on its political power. Despite favoritism from the Obama administration – privileging the United Auto Workers over secured creditors in the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies; steering stimulus…

Categories

Archives

Recent Posts