Posts
Rod Boshart has the story in the GlobeGazette.com: Republicans seeking to amend Iowa’s Constitution with right-to-work protection weathered a stormy subcommittee meeting Wednesday by steering through strong union opposition. House Joint Resolution 1, which advanced on a 2-1 subcommittee vote,…
An Investors Business Daily editorial comments on the continued decline in union membership numbers. The long slide continues in the private sector, and now even public-sector union ranks are shrinking. A friendly White House can’t save a movement that prices…
Pay Up or Get Sued Washington Free Beacon, January 23, 2013 Steven Cook, president of the Michigan Education Association, circulated an email to local union officials and staff instructing them to monitor revenue streams in light of the right-to-work…
Union bosses seek to uphold discriminatory system in awarding public contracts National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys have stepped in to promote freedom inthe latestMichigan union boss debacle, flaunting a law forbidding project labor agreements. Staff attorneys from…
California Leading Unionized Job Growth The U.S. Labor Department reported on Wednesday that the number of union members nationwide fell by 400,000 from 2011 to 2012, and the share of workers in unions dropped from 11.8% to 11.3%. Many reporters and pundits…
National Right to Work Committee’s Justin Davis explains why a Right to Work law must be a legislative priority in Pennsylvania. Jacob Perryman, Times Observer, has the whole story: State Rep. Kathy Rapp joined fellow Pennsylvania House Republicans on Tuesday…
Big Labor’s threat to pull funds from Democrats was only a lovers’ quarrel. LaborPains.org has the story: This summer, organized labor went out of its way to say it was no longer beholden to the Democratic Party’s agenda. But the…