Posts Tagged ‘Illinois’
Illinois’ Union Debacle
An editorial in the Chicago Tribune outlines the state’s creeping budget crisis and the role of government employee unions in the debacle. Even state legislators are beginning to question union bosses’ absolute power which keeps the state’s coffers plummeting. The frail school district that educates nearly 400,000 young Chicagoans is gasping to lower its personnel…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet July 31, 2015
Supreme Court upholds right-to-work for state workers freep.com, July 29, 2015 The Michigan Supreme Court, in an opinion that has the effect of making state employees subject to Michigan’s 2012 right-to-work law, ruled Wednesday that Michigan’s Civil Service Commission never had the authority to impose union fees on state workers, even before the controversial law…
Read MoreThe Specter of Public Sector Unionism
Tom Patterson, former Arizona state senator, writes about the unchecked power of public sector union bosses and the consequences of it, in the Ahwatukee Foothills News Online. Government employment traditionally was compensated somewhat less for similar jobs, but this was offset by less demanding employment, good benefits and ironclad job security. Today government unions, with…
Read MoreRight to Work Helps Economic Recovery
Edward Lazear’sresearch shows that states with Right to Work Laws have fared better in the economic recovery that those without such laws. The story is in the Wall Street Journal Online. A number of current and former governors will be running for president in 2016, and each will tout his state’s accomplishments and claim credit…
Read MoreWhy I stopped paying the SEIU
Laura Baston recounts her experience as a victim of compulsory unionism in the News Gazette online. In 1989, I worked as an accountant for the Marathon Pipeline company in Martinsville. I had two small children, and like many mothers, I was torn between my career and wanting to spend time with my family. So I…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips June 05, 2015
11 Million Workers Are Forced To Pay Union Dues: Congress Should Help Them The Daily Caller Online, June 03, 2015 The National Right to Work Act (S. 391/H.R. 612) was introduced in both chambers of Congress earlier this year. This easy to read, one-page bill does not add one single word to federal law, it…
Read MoreRandall Industries President Encourages Right to Work
Randy Truckenbrodt is a long time Right To Work supporter, and he is also president of Randall Industries, an industrial equipment supplier. He explains why he supports a Right To Work Law for Illinois on the NWI Times. As America’s unions struggle to remain relevant, it’s an appropriate time to consider why they have experienced…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips May 15, 2015
Big Labor Gave $2 Million to Clinton Foundation nilrr.org, May 15, 2015 U.S. Department of Labor’s union financial disclosure reports reveal that Big Labor gave at least $2,034,500 in union general treasury funds to Clinton Foundations. Union treasuries are funded mostly by compulsory union dues or fees collected from workers who would be fired for…
Read MoreIllinois Pension Reform Dead
The Illinois Supreme Court has blown government employee pension reform efforts out of the water, claiming it violates the state constitution. Taxpayers will continue to be on the hook for union bosses’ extravagant demands for more, more, more, that has brought the state to the point of a $111 billion underfunding of the pension system.…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips April 10, 2015
Former labor union official pleads guilty in federal database case Buffalo News Online, April 09, 2015 Jeffrey A. Peterson, 51, of Freedom, a former business agent of Local 17 of the Operating Engineers International, AFL-CIO, pleaded guilty Thursday before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny to a federal charge of exceeding his authorized…
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