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If You Must Defend Forced Unionism, Defend It Forthrightly

JURIST – Forum: ‘Right to Work’ in Michigan: Depleting Unions … The U.S. Supreme Court’s unexpected decision in the spring of 1937 to uphold the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) gave a massive and almost immediate boost to union organizers. Millions…

Immunity From ID Theft Laws – Another Court-Created Special Privilege For Big Labor?

Court Rules Union BossesCanIgnore Identity Theft Laws To Intimidate Employees (Click here to download Fact Sheet) Over the course of the past century, American elected officials and judges have handed to Big Labor an array of special privileges and immunities…

Obama’s Big Labor Payback Includes Federal Employees

The Washington Examiner’s Sean Higgins examines the Executive Order the president signed in 2009 which created a council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, which gives federal government employee union officials a conduitto government agency heads over and above that of the…

Forced-Unionism States Were on Average 20% More Costly to Live in Than Right to Work States in 2012

Cost of Living4th Quarter 2012 Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) published comparative cost-of-living indices for the 50 states covering the fourth quarter of 2012. (See the link above.) The National Institute for Labor Relations…

Big Labor Is Going to Pot

In a stunning reversal, Big Labor puts individual choice before the “collective good” when it comes to organizing marijuana growers. Jillian Kay Melchior has the story in National Review Online today. Dropping membership is the waking nightmare of American unionism. To…

NRTW Foundation Recoups Forced Dues For Some Massachusetts Workers

Mark Mix, President of the National Right ot Work Legal Defense Foundation, comments on a victory for workers in Massachusetts. Ira Kantor has the story in the Boston Herald. Workers caught in a battle between a local union and Lynn-based…

Ignoring Forced-Unionism States’ Higher Cost of Living Won’t Make It Go Away

JURIST – Forum: ‘Right to Work’ in Michigan: Depleting Unions… Union officials and their academic allies understand, just as well as other Americans do, that a dollar doesn’t go nearly as far in forced-unionism New York as it does in…

NILRR Weekly Newsclips February 15, 2013

Workers win settlement against activist union Boston Herald.com, February 14, 2013 Workers caught in a battle between a local union and Lynn-based Complete Cleaning Inc. have won a federal settlement from the union after officials illegally claimed to have…

Philadelphia Union Boss Boasts About Union Violence

The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has tracked violence incidents since 1975. While much of their information comes from news media accounts, it is obvious that many incidents go unreported, even to police, out of fear of retaliation. Union…

“It’s the Union’s Job to Encourage Unrest, Discontent and Unhappiness . . .”

Elijah Grajkowski,Wisconsin public school teacher, explains why he would rather teach in freedom. Read his entire story in the Journal-Sentinel Online. If the teachers union is as wonderful as it claims, then it should have no problem attracting members, without…

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