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Big Labor Academic Candidly Admits That Compulsory Unionism Antithetical To Free Market www.nilrr.org, November 02, 2017 Lichtenstein strongly asserts that: “[Compulsory] unions are not for the market. They’re against the market. That’s the purpose of a union.” Today’s Big Labor bosses are rarely so blunt about their ideological agenda, but we are unaware of any…
Read MoreBig Labor Academic Candidly Admits That Compulsory Unionism Antithetical To Free Market
In a recent interview with far-left writer Rick Paulas (linked below) Nelson Lichtenstein ridiculed Americans who consider themselves to be pro-union and pro-free market. Such people, said Lichtenstein derisively, “think that if the market worked the way it should, that’d be perfect” for unionizing workers. Lichtenstein strongly asserts that: “[Compulsory] unions are not for the…
Read MoreMonopolistic Unionism Is Taxpayers’ Enemy
For the better part of a century, scientific opinion polls have shown that Americans overwhelmingly oppose compulsory unionism, and it is indisputable that, if union officials did not rely on laws authorizing the termination of employees for refusal to join or bankroll their organizations to maintain and expand their wealth and power, they would…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News Clips, November 30, 2016
Statement to the Workers at Chicago O’Hare International Airport National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Online, November 28, 2016 According to reports, workers at O’Hare International Airport have been ordered by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) union bosses to strike beginning November 29. Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation,…
Read MorePhiladelphia Union Bully & Clinton Crony Breaks Electrician’s Nose
In a lawsuit filed early this week, Philadelphian Joshua Keesee, who owns and runs a small, union-freeelectrical contracting business, charges that union bigwig John Dougherty sucker punched him and broke his nosein January.When that failed to cowKeesee to Dougherty’s satisfaction, the business manager of Local 98 of the InternationalBrotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union and…
Read MoreUnion Militants Chortle about Justice Scalia’s Death
Union bosses love collecting forced union dues and fees from employees, and loathe people who get in their way, or even signal they might get in the way. That’s why, a few days ago, a crowd of Ohio AFL-CIO officials and militants applauded the fact that a distinguished jurist’s death had “saved” government union bosses…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Battle to Keep Golden State Housing Costs Outrageously High
Home prices and rent rates in non-Right to Work California are notoriously high. To be precise, according to the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (a state government agency), last year housing in California was more costly than in every one of the other 47 contiguous states except non-Right to Work New York. The average…
Read MoreJudge Berates Obama Labor Board For Violating Workers’ Privacy
Right to Work advocates are hopeful that a federal judge’s willingness to stand up to union-label President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) bureaucrats will help steel the spines of congressional leaders to do the same. For well over a year now, the National Right to Work Committee and its members have been urging…
Read MorePA Big Labor Spends in PA Against Right to Work
Big Labor officials arespending moneyon Pennsylvania’s State Supreme Court races in early November,attempting to keep forced dues alive and wellfor the Keystone State. John Finnerty has the story in the Meadeville Tribune Online. Believing political influence of the state Supreme Court hangs in the balance of Nov. 3 polling, labor unions have donated heavily to…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet September 11, 2015
A chance to make union dues a choice The Supreme Court could end a corrupt practice of public-sector labor Washington Times Online, September 6, 2015 Mark Mix Thanks largely to favors granted by pliant politicians, government union officials enjoy extraordinary special privileges and wield immense political clout. This influence often comes at the expense of…
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