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In the early 1870’s, Thomas Nast, a young cartoonist for Harpers Weekly did what a generation of reformers had been unable to do; he broke Tammany Hall. Nast’s graphic parodies of Boss Tweed and his corrupt political machine aroused a…
More than 11 years ago, union operatives submitted an internal report to the AFL-CIO Executive Council that assessed how Big Labor might destroy existing state Right to Work laws and stymie the National Right to Work Committee’s increasingly effective efforts…
Today, relatively few Americans remember that in 1933 Congress enacted legislation obliging businesses to form committees with their competitors to write “codes” prescribing the “rules of fair competition” for their industry. Businesses that refused to report how much they charged…
### ‘Freedom to Associate of Necessity Means as Well Freedom Not to Associate’ Constitutional scholars and the man in the street alike understand that any genuine personal right must include the freedom to refrain from exercising that right. That’s why…
Just since 2000, an estimated net total of 637,000 young Americans who are now 21-30 years old have relocated from a state in which employees may be fired for refusal to join or pay dues or fees to an unwanted…
### Forced Unionism Reduces Employers’ Ability to Furnish Pension Coverage Forced-unionism apologists often concede that job growth, both overall and private-sector in particular, is far more brisk in Right to Work states than in non-Right to Work states. But after…