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Teacher Union Czars’ Anti-Right to Work Crusade Hurts Teachers

Right-to-Work Laws Increase Poverty, Decrease Productivity | NEA … Right to Work States Benefit From Faster Growth – National Institute … State Characteristics: Median Age and Age by Sex … – Census Bureau  State Characteristics: Median Age and Age by Sex … – Census Bureau Top bosses of the National…

Government Union Bosses Target Nevada’s Beleaguered Private Sector

Unions push a new tax on Nevadans – Las Vegas Review-Journal Government union bosses wield a lot of clout in Right to Work Nevada. In 2011, according to an analysis by labor economists Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson, 47.1% of public…

Mallory Factor’s “Shadowbosses” Predicts Taxpayers’ Future

Mark Tapscott, Executive Editor for the Washington Examiner,  reveals the story behind Mallory Factor’s groundbreaking new book about government employee unions.  His review invites speculation as to whether government employee union bosses are really shadow bosses, or whether they actually…

AFL-CIO Blog Counts on Readers Not to Look at the Links It Furnishes

American Crossroads President Falsely Claims Unions … – AFL-CIO   For decades, poor-mouthing union officials and supposedly nonpartisan monitors of political spending like the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) have fostered a false impression that Big Labor spends less on politics…

At Least The Lawyer Will Serve Jail Time

The State Thruway Workers’ Union president blasted a former union attorney for the theft of money from union workers. Union bosses routinely get away with collecting dues from workers without their permission every day, with no punishment. At least the…

Unions, Democrats Gang up on Iowa Congressman Steve King

Maggie Haberman, Politico.com, reports:       The labor union AFSCME, along with SEIU and the pro-Democratic candidate House Majority PAC, are pooling resources for a $400,000, four-week ad buy against Iowa Rep. Steve King, officials said. King is facing a challenge from…

New Jersey Mayor Alleviates Rank and Files’ Burden

What better way to relieve police and firefighter rank-and-file union members who are overworked?  Send their union officials back onto the street.  Camden, New Jersey’s mayor is putting a stop to “official time” for union officials on the city’s police…

Right to Work States Are Great Places to Retire — And to Raise a Family

10 Worst-Rated States for Retirement – AARP Best and Worst States for Retirement 2011 – Money Rates Recently, Institute Executive Vice President and Treasurer Mark Mix called to my attention a short article that was posted on the web site of the American…

‘Shroom Producers Get 1st Amendment Rights, not U.S. employees

First Amendment Equally Protects Rights of Independent-Minded Workers, Business Owners Dissenting Workers Should Be Free to Refuse to Bankroll ‘Messages . . . Favored by a Majority’ (Download Fact Sheet) Last month, in hismajorityopinion inKnox v. Service Employees International Union…

‘Expect Firms Both American and Foreign to Look to Open Plants’ in Right to Work States

Jobs coming home http://bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=70&step=1&isuri=1&acrdn=1   If you relied on Capitol Hill politicians and union officials for all your information on manufacturing in the U.S., you might well believe it has been rapidly disappearing in recent years. But data from the…

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