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NILRR Right to Work News March 23, 2018
Featured Video – I Was a Union President. Now I Support Right to Work capitalresearch.org, March 20, 2018 Ben Johnson spent the last decade as treasurer and then president of AFT Vermont, the state affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the country. For three of those years, Johnson also…
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Newt Gingrich: Congress must fix Obama’s joint employer mess] Fox news.com, March 04, 2018 Raymond J. LaJeunesse thoroughly analyzed this Democratic double-standard in a recent column for The Federalist Society. Also, one private labor and employment attorney separately noted, according to Allen Smith at the Society for Human Resource Management, that “Becker’s refusal to excuse…
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Report: Labor unions outspend Soros and Koch brothers in politics ilnews.org, April 20, 2017 National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix said that requirement is the big injustice “when you get to the actual use of general treasury money, money that’s paid by dues members and forced fees payers, who would lose their jobs…
Read MoreMost-Indebted States Favor Forced Dues
A recent report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) adds to the evidence that government union officials endowed with monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges routinely wield them to jack up governments’ long-term spending commitments. As a consequence of Big Labor’s compulsory dues-financed lobbying successes, states that give more special privileges to public-sector union officials routinely…
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Hillary Pledges Support for Union Agenda Free Beacon, June 22, 2016 “We should strengthen unions that have formed the bedrock of a strong middle class. It should be easier to bargain collectively,” she said. “That’s not only fair, it makes workers more productive and strengthens our economy.” ABC’s Fight Against Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements Produces…
Read MoreMost Manufacturing Jobs Located in Right to Work States
On Average, Factory-Sector Employees in Forced-Unionism States Receive Roughly $3600 Less in Cost of Living-Adjusted Annual Compensation Than Their Right to Work State Counterparts By Stan Greer (download pdf of Fact Sheet) For several decades, it was a pillar of conventional labor-policy wisdom that manufacturing jobs in the United States were overwhelmingly located in states…
Read MoreCompulsory Unionism Plunges States Deep Into Red
None of the 12 States With the Greatest Absolute State-and-Local Government Debt Per Capita Protects Employees From Being Fired For Refusal to Bankroll an Unwanted Union Twenty-five years ago this May, as state officials across the nation were raising taxes and curtailing essential services to patch over large and widening budget gaps, a prescient cover…
Read MoreNone of the 14 States With Greatest Youth Population Declines Over the Past Decade Had a Right to Work Law Prior to 2013
By setting age-segregated U.S. Census Bureau population data released on December 22 (see the first link below) side by side with data found in Table 21 of the 2007 edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States (see the second link below), one can quickly see that, even as the total population of the…
Read MoreUAW Attempts Chattanooga Again
UAW union officials are once again attempting to organize the Volkswagen automobile factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The first attemptto organize the plantin 2014 failed,butUAW officials are back for another round. Christina Rogers has the story in The Wall Street Journal Online. The union hopes to win recognition for a smaller group of skilled traded workers at…
Read MoreCollege-Educated Americans Keep Flocking to Right to Work States
Recently-updated data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) show that adults with a bachelor’s degree or more education continue to flock to states that protect the individual employee’s freedom to get and keep a job regardless of union membership and union financial support. State-by-state ACS data for 2005 (the earliest year for…
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