If U.S. Unemployment Really Is 7.8%, White House Has State Right to Work Laws to Thank

IBD Editors: Even if Obama did cook the jobs numbers, they still stink.  Investor’s Business Daily States and selected areas: Employment status of the   The latest monthly report by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on nationwide employment and unemployment has been hotly debated since it was issued early in the morning on Friday,…

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None of the 13 States With the Greatest Total Public Debt Per Capita Has a Right to Work Law

State Budget Solutions’ third annual State Debt Report shows total …   Just before Labor Day, the nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog group State Budget Solutions (SBS) issued its third annual report on state public debt, which calculates “the total amount of debt each state faces.” (See the link above.) The new report compiles data on every state’s “regular…

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‘Shroom Producers Get 1st Amendment Rights, not U.S. employees

First Amendment Equally Protects Rights of Independent-Minded Workers, Business Owners Dissenting Workers Should Be Free to Refuse to Bankroll ‘Messages . . . Favored by a Majority’ (Download Fact Sheet) Last month, in hismajorityopinion inKnox v. Service Employees International Union Local 1000, U.S. Supreme Court Justice SamAlitoobserved that, invirtuallyall casesconcerningprivate organizations other than labor unions,…

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Mike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable”

Mike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable” NEA hada total of 3,166,761 members of all types, of whom 2,807,332 were active and employed in the public school system. Be aware that these are individual souls, not full-time equivalents. Forty-four state affiliates lost active members in 2010-11. The following…

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School-Age Population Falling In Forced-Unionism States

Meanwhile, Right to Work States’ ‘K-12 Contingent’ Has Grown by Nearly 1.8 Million Since 2000 (Click here to download the School-Age Population Falling In Forced-Unionism States fact sheet) The state Right to Work law adopted by the Indiana General Assembly and signed into law by GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels this February does not directly affect…

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Employees and Employers Benefit From Right to Work Laws

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 unwanted union as a condition of getting or keeping a job. Journalists often focus on…

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May 25, 2011 NILRR News Clips

Subscribe to National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Email Union Member Files Suit Seeking to Nullify Solis’s 2009 Rescission of Form LM-2 Rule Daily Labor Report Online, 5/23/2011 In the suit, Chris Mosquera, a member of the Municipal County Government Employee Organization, a local of the United Food and Commercial Workers, is asking the…

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May 23, 2011 NILRR News Clips

Subscribe to National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Email Union Member Seeks to Block Obama Labor Department’s Efforts to Roll Back Union Disclosure Rules nrtw.org, 5/23/2011 Washington, DC (May 23, 2011) – With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a Maryland county government employee is asking a federal…

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May 02, 2011 NILRR News Clips

Subscribe to National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Email Republican Senators Plan to Introduce Bill to Protect State Right-to-Work Laws Daily Labor Report Online, 5/03/2011 Two Republican senators intend to introduce May 4 legislation called the Right to Work Protection Act, which aims to strengthen existing protections in the National Labor Relations Act of…

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