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Wisconsin Vote Shows Unions Losing Strength Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s victory deals blow to unions As Americans who follow political news (ardently, casually, or somewhere in between) surely already know, on Tuesday Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker handily defeated union bosses’…
Mailings that list voting records set off some neighbors Since the late 1970’s, union operatives have grown accustomed to using “card checks” and other organizing techniques that disparage employees’ prerogative to decide in private whether or not they will support unionization…
Board’s integrity As a Las Vegas Review Journal editorial yesterday (see link above) noted, Republican Terence Flynn has resigned as a member of the powerful National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The editorial went on to explain that union officials and…
That’s Not Kosher: How Four Jewish Butchers … – The Freeman A well-written article by Steve Horwitz appearing in the June issue of The Freeman (see the link above) recounts the story of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Schechter decision…
Wisconsin jobs numbers remain key point of contention | Appleton … The famous Intrade prediction market is currently giving Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker a 91.7% chance of withstanding Big Labor’s forced dues-funded bid to oust him in a…
Union Bosses Set Forest Fire Captain’s Religious Rights Ablaze www.nrtw.org, May 21, 2012 With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Susanville firefighter John Valentich filed the charge against the CDFF union with the California Department of…
Craig Becker’s cushy new job proves that his critics were right In his writings for academic and “labor studies” journals over the years, Craig Becker has made it plain time and again that he believes all American workers should be…
http://bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf “Ž http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf IndianaPerforming Well in Job Growth In the U.S.as a whole, the anemic private-sector employment growth of early 2012 got even more feeble last month, as the nation’s business payrolls barely increased by an estimated 0.1%,…
CARPE DIEM: North Dakota’s Amazing Economic Success; It’s Not … PN Bakken: Anderson: North Dakota not just about oil – May 06 … For some time now, it’s been widely reported that North Dakota, a Right to Work state since 1948, has…
Meanwhile, Right to Work States’ ‘K-12 Contingent’ Has Grown by Nearly 1.8 Million Since 2000 (Click here to download the School-Age Population Falling In Forced-Unionism States fact sheet) The state Right to Work law adopted by the Indiana General Assembly…