Posts Tagged ‘Indiana’
Competition Is Good For Business People and Workers
GUEST COMMENTARY: Theethical case for right-to-work For decades, federal and state labor laws that compel the individual employee to allow an unwanted union to negotiate his or her terms of employment have been defended by many of their proponents on the grounds that such statutes promote “democracy” in the workplace. This contention cannot withstand more…
Read MoreMallory Factor’s “Shadowbosses” Predicts Taxpayers’ Future
Mark Tapscott, Executive Editor for the Washington Examiner, reveals the story behind Mallory Factor’s groundbreaking new book about government employee unions. His review invites speculation as to whether government employee union bosses are really shadow bosses, or whether they actually run the government with their all-encompassing monopoly bargaining powers. Factor’s prose is hard-hitting and succinct. …
Read MoreMike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable”
Mike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable” NEA hada total of 3,166,761 members of all types, of whom 2,807,332 were active and employed in the public school system. Be aware that these are individual souls, not full-time equivalents. Forty-four state affiliates lost active members in 2010-11. The following…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Ignore Indiana Workers’ Mandate for Right to Work Law
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has helped Indiana workers to file amicus brief on behalf of the state of Indiana now that the AFL-CIO wolf is trying to blow the Right to Work Law down. Asheesh Agarwal writes, in the Library of Law and Liberty: Amidst a series of setbacks at both…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – June 15, 2012
Right to Work Works! The New American Online, June 15, 2012 For purposes of this discussion, the definition of the Right to Work principle will be that provided by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research: Walker will not pursue right-to-work in Wisconsin Human Events Online, June 15, 2012 “No, I’m not going to…
Read MoreA Nascent Economic Boom in America’s Newest Right to Work State?
http://bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf “Ž http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf IndianaPerforming Well in Job Growth In the U.S.as a whole, the anemic private-sector employment growth of early 2012 got even more feeble last month, as the nation’s business payrolls barely increased by an estimated 0.1%, seasonally-adjusted. (See the first link above.) However, job seekers are faring far better in…
Read MoreSelf-Styled ‘Lunchpail Republicans’ Go Zero-For-Five in Indiana
Incumbent Ind. legislators hold off challenges : The Times of … A labor challenge to Republicans in Indiana The late Jack Kemp, a six-term congressman from western New York, HUD secretary, and unsuccessful candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, once proudly referred to himself as a “Lane Kirkland Republican.” Kemp’s willingness, indeed his eagerness, to…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – May 4, 2012
“The Free Rider Argument is a Carefully Crafted Fraud” Legal Newsline, May 1, 2012 The IUOE asserts that the Indiana law violates the equal protection and contract clauses of the Constitution because it does not require nonunion employees to pay for bargaining. . . “The ‘free-rider’ argument is a carefully crafted fraud,” [National Right…
Read MoreNILLR New Clips – April 27, 2012
A One-Sided ‘Right’ to Unionize?! LaborUnionReport.com, April 9, 2012 A guest commentary by Stan Greer, senior research associate for the National Institute for Labor Relations Research The claim that there is a civil right to join a union, but no equivalent right not to join a union was summarily rejected by a unanimous High Court in…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – April 20, 2012
Mark Mix: Union muscling in to O.C. hospital Orange County Register, April 12, 2012 Unknown figures entering your workplace through the back door without identification. Harassing late night phone calls. Strangers blocking your driveway and studying your exact movements. These are not just the tactics of common criminals and thugs; they are also the tactics…
Read More