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“The Free Rider Argument is a Carefully Crafted Fraud” Legal Newsline, May 1, 2012 The IUOE asserts that the Indiana law violates the equal protection and contract clauses of the Constitution because it does not require nonunion employees to pay…
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…
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,…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…