Posts Tagged ‘Illinois’
Right to Work Foundation Takes Up Cause of Nonunion Worker
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys have taken up the cause of work freedom for Karen Cox, an Illinois worker whose rights have been denied by union officials and others. Here’s the story: A local affiliate of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) unionized Cox’s workplace in June 2012. However, union and…
Read MoreChicago Bosses Take Aim at Mayor
Dane Placko, Fox 32 News, Chicago, unearths SEIU Bosses’ campaign to punish Mayor Rahm Emmanuel for considering privatizing airport custodian jobs. It’s just another example of union bosses’ utter disregard for rank and file members, as they spend possibly millions of dollars to help their dues-paying members. For several weeks, members of the Service Employees…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Encumber Citizens With More Debt as Well as Higher Taxes
Total Debt as a Share of Annual Personal Income 50% Higher Than in Right to Work States (Click here todownloadFact Sheet) As many observers of Organized Labor have noted, there has been an enormous shift of power within union officialdom over the past few decades. As recently as 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – April 6, 2012
Right to work has worked Point of View: Oklahoma economy has grown Newsok.com, March 31, 2012 According to federal Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) data, total private-sector employment in Oklahoma increased by 8.1 percent from 2003 to 2010. Oklahoma’s job gain was more than triple the average for forced-unionism states (then 28 in number) and…
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