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Maryland’s Fair Share Act is misnamed

Marta Mossberg of the Baltimore Sun shows why the Fair S hare Act is misnamed. The only people who call forced dues “fair share” are union officials. Contrary to union officials’ statements at the time of the law’s passage that…

Forced-Unionism Apologists Try to Hide Big Labor’s Segregationist Past

TimHudakTakes a Page Out of the U.S. Labour Policy Playbook As a forthcoming fact sheet contributed to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Flint, Mich.-based Frederick Douglass Society reminds us, race-based…

The Price of NLRB Defiance

The Wall Street Journal’s Review and Outlook section discusses the effect of the NLRB’s power and arrogance. Cablevision is petitioning the D.C. Circuit to issue a writ of mandamus–a direct court order–prohibiting the NLRB from proceeding with unfair-labor-practice complaints against…

NILRR Weekly Clipsheet June 1, 2013

NILRR FACT SHEET May 2013 Right to Work States Benefit From Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power – May 2013 Update SHERK: A union of one Washington Times Online, May 24, 2013 The latest example is Minnesota. The…

Right to Work Status Continues to Be Positively Correlated With Job and Compensation Growth

Right to Work States Faster Growth, Higher Purchasing Power This week, the National Institute for Labor Relations Research published the spring 2013 edition of an analysis comparing Right to Work and forced-unionism states according to 11 different economic and…

Demographic Evidence: Forced Unionism Is Bad For People of All Races, Ethnicities

(click to download fact sheet) By Stacy Swimp As I have already contended in a number of different forums, the monopolistic type of unionism now authorized and promoted by federal labor policy for more than three quarters of a century…

The Cost of Government Union Monopoly Bargaining – Shocking

The Beacon Hill Institute’s latest report,“Without cost saving reforms, public sector unions pose future liability crisis for states,” contains some shocking figures about the cost governments incur when they allow government employee unions free rein with monopoly bargaining. …

Sherk: A union of One; AFSCME Pulls a Fast One on Daycare Workers

James Sherk, in the Washington Times, makes excellent points about the political power unions possess, passing a law that would allow self-employed workers to unionize. That’s correct – self-employed daycare workers. Desperate times call for desperate measures, but…

It’s Not About the Students; Not Even Close

Now that Mayor Emanuel must close down some Chicago schools because of last year’s teacher strike, which added a Herculean burden to the district’s $1 million deficit, the shoe is on the other foot for teacher union officials. Now they…

If Union Bosses Now Admit They Have Represented Workers Poorly, Why Should Federal Policy Continue Forcing Workers to Pay Union Dues?

Unions, the reliable Democratic supporters, split from president on… Multiple media reports over the past few weeks, including the Fox News item linked above, discuss the “surprising” development that Big Labor, which collectively spent hundreds of millions of dollars in…

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