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James Marshall Crotty, Forbes magazine, makes an interesting observation: Because of the alleged audacity of passing a right-to-work law during the lame-duck session of the Michigan legislature, virulent – and occasionally violent – protests at the state Capitol in Lansing…
Sean Higgins of the Washington Examiner: My column in today’s paper is about how critics of right-to-work laws almost never bother to explain exactly what the laws do. That’s because a clear explanation tends to undermine the critics’ cases, revealing…
The Daily Labor Report reveals Judge Michael H. Simon of the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon denied an NLRB petition to hold the ILWU and two locals in contempt of a previous injunction against secondary actions…
Run out of Indiana and Michigan with their newly-passed Right to Work Laws, the SEIU is preying upon Minnesotans for workers to pay unwanted dues. Jim Ragsdale has the story in the Star Tribune: DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and incoming…
California lost more people to other states than it gained in 2011 Californians–staying put- Redding.com Blogs: Bruce Ross’ blog A few hundred union militants hanging out in Lansing and forced-unionism apologists in the establishment media and academia around the country…
Shikha Dalmia comments on the unions’ reaction to Michigan Right to Work on Bloomberg.com Union bosses aren’t accustomed to the second approach, so until the next elections in 2014 they can be expected to try everything to overturn the law…
From the SEIU.org website: SEIU International President, Mary Kay Henry made an appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show last night after Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed the so-called “Right-to-Work” bill into law, despite the presence of more than 17,000 workers…
Guy Benson, Townhall’s Political Editor, remarks on Jim Hoffa’s Threats over the passage of a Right to Work Bill in Michigan yesterday. Yes, this is the same elegant creature who screeched about “taking out” Tea Party “son-of-a-bitches” [sic] at a…
MLive’s pallid description of some of the violence that accompanied Michigan workers’ bid for freedom: The protest was mostly peaceful, but included state police in riot gear, a clash in which a tent used by…