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Henry Payne’s Take on Michigan Union Violence

Henry Payne in Reason’s Hit and Run blog:  

DC Union President Faces 183 Years in Prison

From Lachlan Markay, at the Foundry:    A jury ruled on September 5 that Caleb Gray-Burriss, founder and president of the National Association of Special Police and Security Officers (NASPSO), was guilty of six counts of mail fraud, seven counts of theft…

Missouri House Speaker says right-to-work passage unlikely

Mike Lear, Missourinet, reports Missouri lawmakers dragging their feet on a Right to Work law. Missouri’s Republican House Speaker says in spite of the passage of right-to-work in Michigan, he doesn’t expect to make it a priority in Missouri but…

Big Labor Bosses Make Way More than Michigan Workers

Jillian Kay Melchior, National Review, The Corner, compares Big Labor officials salaries to the rank and file. It pays big to be a union boss. That’s something to remember as Big Labor leaders decry Michigan’s new right-to-work law. After all,…

Right to Work Improves Teacher Quality

James Marshall Crotty, Forbes magazine, makes an interesting observation: Because of the alleged audacity of passing a right-to-work law during the lame-duck session of the Michigan legislature, virulent – and occasionally violent – protests at the state Capitol in Lansing…

“There Will Be Blood”: Union Violence in the Age of Obama

From Michelle Malkin, a short overview on union violence, including the incidents which accompanied passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law.   Not so many moons ago, President Obama urged us all to “make sure that we are talking with…

Major media outlets fail to explain what right-to-work laws do

Sean Higgins of the Washington Examiner: My column in today’s paper is about how critics of right-to-work laws almost never bother to explain exactly what the laws do. That’s because a clear explanation tends to undermine the critics’ cases, revealing…

Court Denies Injunction in Port Strike

The Daily Labor Report reveals Judge Michael H. Simon of the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon denied an NLRB petition to hold the ILWU and two locals in contempt of a previous injunction against secondary actions…

Seeking Greener Pastures, SEIU Swarms Minnesota

Run out of Indiana and Michigan with their newly-passed Right to Work Laws, the SEIU is preying upon Minnesotans for workers to pay unwanted dues. Jim Ragsdale has the story in the Star Tribune: DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and incoming…

Latest Domestic Migration Data Reinforce Economic Case For Michigan Right to Work Statute

California lost more people to other states than it gained in 2011 Californians–staying put- Redding.com Blogs: Bruce Ross’ blog A few hundred union militants hanging out in Lansing and forced-unionism apologists in the establishment media and academia around the country…

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