Posts Tagged ‘Compulsory Unionism’
The Fourteen Least-Affordable States All Lack Right To Work Protections
The correlation between forced-unionism status and a higher cost of living is robust. Not one of the 14 highest-cost states in 2019 has a Right to Work law. But 13 of the 15 lowest cost-of-living states protect employees’ Right to Work.
There is a compelling case to be made that compulsory unionism actually fosters a higher cost of living.
Read MoreIllinois Teacher Association Lead Legislators by the Nose
Illinois Education Association union officials know what they are doing when they persuaded the legislature to double the bump retiring teachers receive just before they ride off into the sunset. When legislators decreased the cap on retiring teachers salaries (this cap or bump, allows teachers larger salaries a few years before they retire so their…
Read MoreCorralling Workers Into Unions Is No Rx For Poverty
Recently, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of he U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, released Fiscal 2018 data regarding participation in all 50 states in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Among other things, the ACF reported the total annual average number of residents of each state who…
Read MoreState AFL President Claimed Compulsory Unionism Necessary to Preserve Racial Discrimination
Among the many false arguments for continued compulsory unionism offered up by Big Labor bosses and their allies over the years, perhaps the most outrageous contention is that laws forcing employees to pay for an unwanted union somehow protect racial minorities from workplace discrimination. Some lies should not go unanswered; I believe this is one.…
Read MoreTeamsters Pension Bust Leaves 4000 Retirees ‘on the Edge of Financial Disaster’
In an ongoing series of articles for the New YorkDaily News, two of which are linked below, reporter Ginger Adams Otis has examined the financial and human impact of the downfall of the New York Teamsters Local 707 pension fund, which officially ran out of cash last month. In a February 28 report, Ms. Otis…
Read MoreFederally-Imposed Forced Union Dues Are Unconstitutional
More than 70 years ago, whenSteele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad came before the U.S. Supreme Court, there was no federal law prohibiting race-based job discrimination perpetrated by employers or other private parties. As a consequence, the railroad executives who were the principal defendants in this case were able to contend that a racially discriminatory…
Read MoreIf It’s Selective, Then It Isn’t Really ‘Majority Rule’
Under the principles of limited government espoused by the American Founding Fathers who wrote and approved our Constitution two-and-a-quarter centuries ago and most Americans today, public decisions are generally made by majority rule, but private decisions are not unless all parties affected by the decision agree to it. For example, the fact that the majority…
Read MorePro-Forced Unionism Columnist Tries to Airbrush Rod Blagojevich Out of the Harris v.Quinn Case
One of the most-watched cases still to be decided in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013-2014 term is Harris v. Quinn, in which the plaintiffs are being represented by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys. A ruling in Harris could come as soon as this Thursday. In Harris, the High Court is considering whether…
Read MoreGrocery Union Bosses Force Members and Nonmembers Alike to Pay For Mendacious and Cynical TV Ads
Back in 2010, Pennsylvanians who are fed up with the inordinate power wielded by Big Labor over their state’s economy and government elected a GOP governor and gave the same party control over both chambers of the General Assembly in Harrisburg. At the time, they hoped newly elected Gov. Tom Corbett and his allies in…
Read MoreStates 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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