Posts Tagged ‘Act 10’
Forced-Unionism Advocates Shouldn’t Gloat Too Much Over This Week’s Wisconsin Court Ruling
Explaining the Latest Act 10 Court Action – Right Wisconsin … Big Labor bosses and other proponents of reinstating compulsory union dues and fees and wide-ranging union monopoly bargaining in Wisconsin government workplaces where these practices have been curtailed by Act 10, which the Legislature adopted two years ago, are currently gloating about a state court decision issued…
Read MoreGovernment Union Bosses’ 2011 Ohio ‘Victory’ Proving Costly to Public Employees
Union Membership and Coverage Database Two years ago this month, Wisconsin and Ohio made history by becoming the first two states to adopt legislation revoking government union bosses’ privilege to force civil servants to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment after having previously passed laws authorizing public-sector compulsory unionism. Wisconsin’s Act…
Read MoreProposed ‘Paycheck Protection’ Measure in Missouri Would Have Relatively Little Impact
Union dues collecting is examined by Missouri, Kansas lawmakers Elected officials in the “Show Me” State, like their counterparts in a number of other forced-unionism states, are coming under ever-more intense grass-roots pressure to fight for passage of a state Right to Work law prohibiting compulsory union dues and fees. The vast majority of ordinary Missourians…
Read More‘States Are Under No Obligation to Aid the Unions in Their Political Activities’
The Vindication Of Act 10 On January 18, a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit unanimously rebuffed a bid by Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC/NEA) and other union officials to get declared unconstitutional the Right to Work provision in Act 10, the public-sector labor-law reform adopted by Badger…
Read More‘Responsible’ Big Labor Governor Drives Connecticut Into Fiscal Ditch
E.J. Dionne Jr. -No glory for governors trying to do theright fiscal Connecticut’s Fiscal Mess- National Review Online Wisconsin budget projections show surplus In early 2o11, journalistic apologists for compulsory unionism relentlessly vilified Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for identifying public policies promoting monopolistic government unionism as a key cause of his state’s…
Read MoreA ‘Desperate Rearguard Action’ by a Forced-Unionism Partisan
An Activist Decision Striking Down Wisconsin’s Collective Bargaining Law On September 14, according to innumerable credulous media accounts, Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas finally accomplished for Big Labor what union operatives had previously failed to do in state and federal court and in a series of “recall” elections, including one this June targeting GOP Gov.…
Read MoreNILLR New Clips – April 27, 2012
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 right not to join a union was summarily rejected by a unanimous High Court in…
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