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Former Union President Suggests Unions Would Be Better Off Without Forced Dues or Fees

A Silver Lining In Michigan Labor Defeat | Working Life Former National Writers Union (NWU) President Jon Tasini is torn. On the one hand, echoing the standard union-boss propaganda line, he labels Michigan’s enactment of the 24th state Right to Work law…

Union Apologist Criticizes Union Bosses for Ignoring Rank and File

A view from the other side: Union supporter Jonathan Tasini, takes union bosses to task for alienating rank and file members on Working Life. Beginning with the passage of Right to Work in Michigan, . . . concentrating on the…

Pierre Poilievre wants to bring right-to-work legislation to Canada

Tim Harper explores the potential for a Canadian Right to Work law in spec.com. The Stephen Harper government might dismiss suggestions that right-to-work legislation is on their agenda and Labour Minister Lisa Raitt may say there is a different…

California’s Monopoly Bargaining Debacle

It has long been suspected that California government employee unions wield enormous power, with glittering, golden retirement plans. Ivan Osorio analyzes a report by Bloomberg reporters on openmarket.org. This isn’t a case of a handful of isolated incidents. The team…

Monopoly Bargaining and Ilinois’ Eve of Destitution

Paul Kersey, Illinois Policy Institute, explores the consequences of Illinois government union employee bargaining laws and how it will hamstring the government attempting to keep costs reined in. Like an insidious leak, eventually government employee union monopoly bargaining will destroy…

Institute Refutes Obama’s Lame Comments About Right to Work With Facts

The National Institute’s figures give the lie to President Obama’s scornful comments about Right to Work. Mark LaRochelle, Human Events, has the story: The recent enactment of a right-to-work law in Michigan, of all places, provoked a remarkable comment from…

Right to Work Foundation Ready to Uphold Michigan’s Right to Work Law

Jim Lynch, Detroit News, examines Big Labor’s reaction to the Michigan Right to Work Law. National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Vice President and Legal Director, Ray LaJeunesse, reviews plans to uphold Michigan’s Right to Work Law against any…

What Democracy Really Looks Like

Heritage Foundation‘s Ed Fuelner on Michigan Right to Work passage: In a statewide election in Michigan last month, voters soundly defeated Proposal 2, a measure that would have made union collective bargaining a right and given collective bargaining agreements the…

Milton Friedman: Forced Union Dues Are ‘Almost Always a Symbol of Monopoly Power’

The Libertarian Case Against Right-to-Work Laws – Reason.com Most of the millions and millions of Right to Work supporters across America do not consider themselves to be libertarians. But Right to Work supporters, regardless of their general ideological stance, and libertarians…

Not a firing offense: drinking, smoking pot, endangering people, child abuse

Jillian Kay Melchior, National Review Online, writes about the union intimidation tactics union bosses used to further their goals when they do not get what they want in negotiations. An excellent reason to abolish monopoly bargaining and exclusive representation. The…

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