Posts Tagged ‘forced unionism’
Worker Advocate Files Amicus Brief in Friedrichs v. CTA Case
National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys have just filed an amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) brief in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, urging the United States Supreme Court…
Read MoreA chance to make union dues a choice
By Mark Mix September 6, 2015 The Gilded Age. The Spoils System. Tammany Hall. In American politics, corrupt bargains between politicians and their supporters are supposed to be a…
Read MoreBig Labor Allies Should Stop Smearing Teachers Who Don’t Want a Union
One book that every citizen who is interested in debating the question of voluntary versus compulsory union membership ought to review and ponder is Dr. Sheldon Leader’s Freedom of Association: A…
Read MoreBlacks, Hispanics, Asians and Whites Are All Fleeing Big Labor-Dominated Metropolitan Areas
While forced union dues-funded “think tanks” like the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute and Big Labor bosses themselves like to portray monopolistic unionism as a balm for America’s racial and…
Read MoreWill Famously Garrulous Leftist Noam Chomsky Elaborate on Why He Supports Forced Union Dues?
For decades, Big Labor bosses have sought to perpetuate and expand upon their special legal privileges to get workers fired for refusal to join or bankroll a union they don’t…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Were on Average 22% More Costly to Live in Than Right to Work States in 2014
Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) published its latest set of comparative cost-of-living indices for the 50 states.  (See the link below.) MERIC’s new indices…
Read More‘Intergenerational Optimism’ Far Higher in Right to Work States
Last week’s announcement from the National Center for Health Statistics that the number of births in the U.S. fell for the sixth year in a row has been recognized by…
Read MoreRight to Work States Far Outpace Forced-Dues States in Net Growth in Businesses With 20 or More Employees
While small businesses with fewer than 20 employees constitute a critical part of the U.S. economy, they are not the principal source of jobs today or of job creation for…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Are Missing 1.7 Million People in Their Peak Earnings Years
Considered together, recently released U.S. Census Bureau data for 2013 and comparable data for 2003 indicate that, as of last year, roughly 1.7 million people in their peak earnings years…
Read MoreBig Labor Badger State Gubernatorial Candidate Accused of Playing ‘Russian Roulette’ With Taxpayers’ Money
Within the next few weeks, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision regarding whether key provisions of the three-and-a-half-year-old budgetary and public-labor-policy reform known as Act 10…
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