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States With ‘Exceptional Patterns of Out-Migration’ Are Overwhelmingly Forced-Unionism
Last week, Tax Foundation blogger Lyman Stone contributed an informative five-part series on the economic significance of interstate migration by taxpayers and their dependents. As Stone’s final post in the series (see the link below) pointed out, a number of states that have experienced “exceptional patterns of out-migration” over the years have collectively lost millions…
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UPMC employees, beware of card check Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 21, 2014 This is where the SEIU’s theatrics come in. The SEIU and its allies have repeatedly attacked UPMC in an apparent effort to force management to agree to a card check unionization drive. Protests that block traffic, hunger strikes and public attacks on UPMC’s tax…
Read MoreNLRB Certifies Vote Rejecting UAW
Tennessee’s Chattanooga Volkswagen plant workers won a victory as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certifed election results from a February vote which rejected representation by the United Auto Workers union. National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys represented workers who just wanted to work free from union boss interference. Melanie Trottman has the…
Read MoreThis Chart Proves Unions Cannot Offer Job Security
The title says it all. Economist Allison Schrager uses the UAW representation election failure at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant to illustrate how union bosses can no longer ensure job security for members. Another so-called “union benefit” goes down the way of the dinosaurs. Check out her article in qz.com. A few weeks ago, the…
Read MoreHow Can Kentucky Offer More Opportunities to Employees?
Border-County Employment-Growth Data Bolster Case For Enactment of a Bluegrass State Right to Work Law By Stan Greer (Download a .pdf file of this Fact Sheet) Could becoming the 25th Right to Work state make Kentucky a more attractive place for people in their career-building years? Right to Work laws, as many readers undoubtedly know,…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 14, 2014
Right-to-work bill dies in Kentucky House committee wave3.com, March 14, 2014 A Kentucky House committee’s vote killed right-to-work legislation for the rest of the year, but both sides say the issue will play a key role in November’s elections. Is It Really News to UAW Bosses That Their Political Partisanship Offends Many Workers? www.nilrr.org…
Read MoreIs It Really News to UAW Bosses That Their Political Partisanship Offends Many Workers?
In a whiny commentary for The American Prospect published three days after workers at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga voted decisively against union monopoly bargaining last month, Harold Meyerson, the leftist magazine’s pro-forced unionism editor-at-large, bemoaned the role “cultural” considerations played in the campaign’s outcome. (See the link below to read Meyerson’s piece.) While…
Read MoreRight to Work Kansas Is Eating Forced-Unionism Missouri’s ‘Economic Lunch’
Border-County Data Strengthen Case That Right to Work Law Would Boost Missouri’s Private-Sector Job Growth By Stan Greer (Download Pdf version of Fact Sheet) This winter, grass-roots proponents of making Missouri America’s 25th Right to Work state are facing off against union officials and other supporters of the current policies that empower Organized Labor to…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips February 21, 2014
Clock ticking for UAW to file objection in VW Chattanooga vote Times Free Press Online, February 19, 2014 Raudabaugh, who does work for the anti-union National Right to Work Foundation, said if the board holds a hearing on an objection to the election, it could take months to resolve, he said. “Should the board say…
Read MoreVW workers reject UAW organizing drive at Tenn. plant
The workers at Volkswagen, Chattanooga, have spoken. Gabe Nelson has the story in Automotive News. Workers at Volkswagen AG’s plant here voted to reject UAW representation, dealing a devastating loss to a union that saw the Tennessee factory as its best chance to gain a toehold at a foreign-owned assembly plant in the South.Results of…
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