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‘The Net Result of the Union’s Dispute Is That Some of Its Members Will Have Their Raises Rescinded’

Union Membership Falls – Again   Whenever they  are seeking to justify compulsory union dues and fees, Big Labor bosses and their allies routinely assume, without acknowledging they are making an assumption, that every single worker who is subject to union monopoly…

Iowa Constitutional Right To Work Law advances

Rod Boshart has the story in the GlobeGazette.com: Republicans seeking to amend Iowa’s Constitution with right-to-work protection weathered a stormy subcommittee meeting Wednesday by steering through strong union opposition. House Joint Resolution 1, which advanced on a 2-1 subcommittee vote,…

Union Bosses “. . . Continue to Lose the Loyalty of the American People.”

An Investors Business Daily editorial comments on the continued decline in union membership numbers. The long slide continues in the private sector, and now even public-sector union ranks are shrinking. A friendly White House can’t save a movement that prices…

NILRR Weekly News Clips January 25, 2013

  Pay Up or Get Sued Washington Free Beacon, January 23, 2013  Steven Cook, president of the Michigan Education Association, circulated an email to local union officials and staff instructing them to monitor revenue streams in light of the right-to-work…

Worker Advocate Files Brief in Dispute in Michigan Public Projects

Union bosses seek to uphold discriminatory system in awarding public contracts National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys have stepped in to promote freedom inthe latestMichigan union boss debacle, flaunting a law forbidding project labor agreements. Staff attorneys from…

Purpose of Right to Work Laws Isn’t to Hurt (or Help) Unions

California Leading Unionized Job Growth The U.S. Labor Department reported on Wednesday that the number of union members nationwide fell by 400,000 from 2011 to 2012, and the share of workers in unions dropped from 11.8% to 11.3%. Many reporters and pundits…

County declines to bargain with AFSCME for now

After passage of Wisconsin Act 10,Columbia County officials have agreed they have no mandate to bargain with the former exclusive representative, AFSCME. County officials, it seems, are finding it effective to sit down and talk with their employees, instead of…

Right to Work a Moral Issue for Pennsylvania

National Right to Work Committee’s Justin Davis explains why a Right to Work law must be a legislative priority in Pennsylvania.  Jacob Perryman, Times Observer, has the whole story: State Rep. Kathy Rapp joined fellow Pennsylvania House Republicans on Tuesday…

Phyllis Schlafly – Union Political Spending in 2012

Phyllis Schlafly, on moralliberal.com comments on union bosses’ use of forced dues to elect President Obama to his second term.  Today we are inaugurating Barack Obama for his second term. Let’s talk about just one of the reasons he won his campaign…

Kansas Union Members Are Still Getting a Bum Deal

Big Labor’s power in many states is so great it can make the government do its bidding, and make it virtually impossible for workers to resign their union membership. Even in Kansas, a Right to Work State, where workers have…

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