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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…
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…
Newly Released ‘Rich States, Poor States‘ Report Draws Attention … In the middle of this week, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) released the fifth edition of its “Rich States, Poor States” report. (See the link above for information about…
Roughly a year ago, Wisconsin and Ohio became the first two states to adopt statutes revoking government union officials’ power to force employees to pay union dues, or be fired, after having first granted Big Labor this privilege legislatively. In…
Shark and Shepherd: The core of Act 10 survives On March 30, U.S. District Judge William Conley rebuffed a bid by Wisconsin government union lawyers to get the Right to Work provision in Act 10, the public-sector labor-law reform adopted…
Right to work has worked Point of View: Oklahoma economy has grown Newsok.com, March 31, 2012 According to federal Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) data, total private-sector employment in Oklahoma increased by 8.1 percent from 2003 to 2010. Oklahoma’s job…