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Labor’s last shot A New York Post commentary by Christian Schneider of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute correctly identifies the key reason Big Labor and its favored politicians are going all out to oust Badger State Gov. Scott Walker (R)…
Incumbent Ind. legislators hold off challenges : The Times of … A labor challenge to Republicans in Indiana The late Jack Kemp, a six-term congressman from western New York, HUD secretary, and unsuccessful candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, once…
Bullying Teachers In most American public schools, teacher union bosses have almost unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded school mailboxes, e-mail systems, meeting rooms, bulletin boards, and printing services, which they use to distribute Big Labor propaganda. At the same time,…
“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…
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…