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Employees and Employers Benefit From Right to Work Laws

Another Triumph for Texas: Best/Worst States for Business 2012 …     The evidence is overwhelming that both employees and employers benefit from state Right to Work laws that make it illegal to force employees to pay money to an…

Overlooking the Truth About the Massive Growth in Unionized Government Payrolls

Threat from mounting public job losses tested Obama’s economic … Just two years ago, the U.S. Labor Department reported that, for the first time ever, a majority of unionized workers across America are now government employees. As recently as 1980,…

NILLR New Clips – April 27, 2012

A One-Sided ‘Right’ to Unionize?! LaborUnionReport.com, April 9, 2012  A guest commentary by Stan Greer, senior research associate for the National Institute for Labor Relations Research The claim that there is a civil right to join a union, but no equivalent…

Big Labor’s Latest Specious Attack on Wisconsin Governor

Unions vs. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: It’s All About Jobs States and selected areas: Employment status   It’s hard to believe that, only a year ago, Big Labor was attacking Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker for supposedly abolishing public employees’…

Monopoly Bargaining Strips Employees, Not Union Bosses, of ‘Valuable Rights’

Union: Right-to-Work Law Like Slavery Top officials of the suburban Chicago-based Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE/AFL-CIO) are coming in for some well-deserved mockery for outrageous claims they have recently made as part of their bid…

Oklahoma Economy Rides the Right to Work Freedom Wave

Oklahoman Op-Ed by  Stan Greer: A little more than nine years ago, the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected a two-year-long campaign by labor union lawyers to get the state’s right-to-work law invalidated. Chief Justice Joseph Watt rebuffed union lawyers: “[T]o hold…

Mitigating the Damage Done by Union Monopolists

Removing Union Wage Ceilings – By James Sherk – The Corner …   For many years now, Right to Work supporters have striven to focus public attention on the fact that monopoly unionism leads, most often, to less pay for…

NILRR News Clips – April 20, 2012

Mark Mix: Union muscling in to O.C. hospital Orange County Register, April 12, 2012 Unknown figures entering your workplace through the back door without identification. Harassing late night phone calls. Strangers blocking your driveway and studying your exact movements. These…

Teacher Union Monopolists Keep Predators in Schools

They must go Monsters in the Classroom: NYC Teachers Union Reinstates Alleged … Apologists for Big Labor special privileges often suggest they are necessary to protect honest and hard-working employees. But do good employees really benefit when union bosses wield their…

Pity the Poor Union Bosses

Right-To-Work Laws Make Unions Accountable, Not DOA The basic facts about state Right to Work laws aren’t in doubt. In the 23 states that now have such laws on the books, each employee has the personal freedom to refuse to…

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