Posts Tagged ‘Forced Union Dues’
So-Called ‘Duty of Fair Representation’ Is No Excuse For Forced Union Dues
In a recent commentary for the Conservative News Service, I explain how union propagandists routinely misrepresent U.S. Supreme Court and other federal court decisions concerning the “duty of fair representation.” Led by the High Court, the judiciary has recognized that, whenever union bosses obtain monopoly power to represent all employees in a “bargaining unit” with regard…
Read More‘More Energetic and Lower-Paid’ Teachers Get Thrown Under the Bus
Today more than 30 states have laws on the books empowering government union bosses to speak for all public servants who choose not to join their organizations as well as those who do in discussions with the employer regarding pay, benefits, and work rules. Big Labor insists that corralling workers who don’t belong to a…
Read MorePension Crisis a ‘Direct Consequence’ of Union Bosses’ ‘Enormous Political Power’
In a commentary for the New YorkPost published late last week, American Enterprise Institute adjunct scholar Mike Lilley, tersely describes the horrendous fiscal crisis in which the Garden State finds itself: New Jersey has a severe pension crisis: Its unfunded pension liabilities are $95 billion. The state’s retiree health-care obligations add another $65 billion, for…
Read MoreMost-Indebted States Favor Forced Dues
A recent report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) adds to the evidence that government union officials endowed with monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges routinely wield them to jack up governments’ long-term spending commitments. As a consequence of Big Labor’s compulsory dues-financed lobbying successes, states that give more special privileges to public-sector union officials routinely…
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 MoreMandatory Bar Doesn’t Aim to Prevent ‘Individual Attorneys’ From Getting ‘Better Terms Than Those Obtainable by the Group’
As I discussed last week in a blog post on this site (see the first link below),Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a potentially landmark case scheduled to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on January 11, has involved a remarkably rapid change in the legal strategy of proponents of compulsory union dues and fees…
Read MoreA Trillion-Dollar, Federal Taxpayer-Funded Bailout For Government Union Bosses?
It is well-documented that public-sector union officials who are empowered with monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges routinely wield them to jack up governments’ long-term spending commitments. Moreover, as a consequence of Big Labor’s compulsory dues-financed lobbying successes, states that give more special privileges to public-sector union officials burden their citizens with more debt as as heavier…
Read MoreFundamental Purpose of Missouri Right to Work Legislation Is Ensuring Equal Protection Under the Law
Helping Workers RAISE Themselves Next week, National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix will visit Jefferson City to talk to a legislative panel about why Missouri should become America’s 25th state to pass a comprehensive ban on forced union dues and fees. Mr. Mix will surely note that states prohibiting the termination of…
Read MoreCan an Even-Handed Government Labor Policy Be Worse Than a One-Sided Government Labor Policy?
End “Collective Bargaining Rights” and “Right-to-Work” Laws Philosopher Roderick Long, a libertarian himself, has defined libertarianism as “any political policy that advocates a radical redistribution of power from the coercive state to voluntary associations of free individuals.” If this understanding is correct, then it follows that libertarians should oppose federal laws such as the…
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