Posts Tagged ‘Government Employee Unions’
NILRR News Clips August 23, 2013
Ohio Governor Has No Credible Excuse For Waving the White Flag on Right to Work August 17th, 2013 An Ohio Prescription for GOP: Lower Taxes, More Aid for Poor Scientific polling ind[…] Cities With Greatest Bankruptcy Risks Overwhelmingly Located in Forced-Unionism States August 19th, 2013 20 Cities That May Face Bankruptcy After Detroit – Newsmax.com Earlier…
Read MoreUnion Officials Perpetuate Misinformation
Larry Sand does a great job exposing the fallacy of the union officials’ view of Right to Work in unionwatch.org. The unions, with all their pro-worker chatter, hate the fact that in some places, employees actually have a choice whether to join or not. As Stan Greer, senior research associate for the National Institute for…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips August 9, 2013
A Union Run Amok National Review Online, August 8, 2013 John Raudabaugh, a staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation, is representing Clark. He says the union failed to inform employees of their rights to opt out of membership and pay reduced dues so that their money wouldn’t go to the union’s political…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips August 1, 2013
Holden postal worker files complaint after dues still taken from paycheck despite quitting union Bangor Daily News Online, August 2, 2013 She said she could not discuss details of the charge because of the ongoing investigation. Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation provided Johnson with free legal assistance and helped…
Read MoreMich. Judge – Detroit Bankruptcy ‘Not Honoring’ President
Judge Aquilina, who is in charge of the Detroit city bankruptcy filing, has ordered Governor Snyder to have the Detroit city’s emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, to withdraw the filing because it might “. . . impair . . . accrued pension plans. . . “Since President Obama ordered taxpayers to bail out the auto industry,the…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips — June 21, 2013
‘Under 18″² Population of Forced-Unionism States Sank by Nearly 1.5 Million Over Past Decade National Institute for Labor Relations Research, June 16, 2013, U.S. Census Bureau data released last week (see the link above) show that, from 2002 to 2012, as in previous 10-year periods, Right to Work states’ population-growth advantage over forced-unionism states was…
Read MoreMaryland’s Fair Share Act is misnamed
Marta Mossberg of the Baltimore Sun shows why the Fair S hare Act is misnamed. The only people who call forced dues “fair share” are union officials. Contrary to union officials’ statements at the time of the law’s passage that the money would be targeted to improve services for all employees, the tax records show…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clipsheet June 1, 2013
NILRR FACT SHEET May 2013 Right to Work States Benefit From Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power – May 2013 Update SHERK: A union of one Washington Times Online, May 24, 2013 The latest example is Minnesota. The legislature just passed a law unionizing day-care providers at the behest of the American Federation…
Read MoreThe Cost of Government Union Monopoly Bargaining – Shocking
The Beacon Hill Institute’s latest report,“Without cost saving reforms, public sector unions pose future liability crisis for states,” contains some shocking figures about the cost governments incur when they allow government employee unions free rein with monopoly bargaining. The study first finds that a one percentage point increase in the unionization of public…
Read MoreSherk: A union of One; AFSCME Pulls a Fast One on Daycare Workers
James Sherk, in the Washington Times, makes excellent points about the political power unions possess, passing a law that would allow self-employed workers to unionize. That’s correct – self-employed daycare workers. Desperate times call for desperate measures, but the union movement has taken this saying to a new level. It has reacted to…
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