Posts Tagged ‘Michigan’
Michigan – More Right to Work ?
Newly-elected State Representative Gary Glenn is drafting two bills that would extend Right to Work benefits in Michigan. Mark Tower has the story in M-Live. Glenn, a first-year lawmaker who represents part of Midland and Bay counties, is drafting two bills that seek to do that. The first bill would extend Right to Work provisions…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips February 13, 2015
Illinois Governor Fights Forced Unionism Western Journalism.com, February 11, 2015 Patrick Semmens of the National Right to Work Foundation commented on Rauner’s executive order: “This executive action is a bold step to protect the rights of Illinois state employees from being forced to pay tribute to union bosses as a condition of working as a…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips January 19, 2015
Public Unions vs. the Public Wall Street Journal Online, January 15, 2015 The facts: Public-sector unions are not underdogs. . . As Mr. DiSalvo shows, public-sector unions are also rich. Taken together, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually lobbying governments on behalf of their members. Our courts have ensured that funding for political…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips January 02, 2015
What A Year Labor Unions Had In 2014 The Daily Caller Online, January 1, 2015 Here are six major labor issues that defined the year. Harris v. Quinn. The Supreme Court ruled in Harris v. Quinn that Illinois home health care workers could not be compelled to join a union because they were hired by…
Read More Opportunities For the ‘Middle-Educated’ and the College-Educated  Â
NILRR Fact Sheet — College-Educated and ‘Middle-Educated’ Employee web Census Bureau Data Show That Non-Holders, Holders of Bachelor’s Degrees Are Flocking to Right to Work States By Stan Greer As a number of workforce analysts have noted, one way in which Americans in their teens and their twenties have attempted to shield themselves from the…
Read MoreUAW Coercion in Right to Work Michgan
UAW union officials are stepping up their coercion and intimidation tactics now that Michigan’s Right to Work Law is allowing all workers to choose whether they wish to accept union representation. Kathleen Sulkowski, represented with free legal advice by the National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation, is challenging the requirement that union…
Read MoreUAW Desperate to Keep Michigan Members
If a union is working for its members, those members will not want to resign. If it is not working for its members, they should not have to jump through hoops in order to resign. United Auto Workers Local 600, of Dearborn, Michigan, requires union members who wish to resign, to appear in person and…
Read MoreNILRR Clips October 10, 2014
Roy Exum: The UAW’s New Scab List The Chattanoogan Online, October 10, 2014 There is a special page that is popping up on union websites in right-to-work states such as Tennessee that is called “The Scab List,” according to an article in Washington. Glenn Taubmann, a lawyer at the National Right to Work Legal Defense…
Read MoreFACT SHEET: Working-Age Resident Deficit
Working-Age Resident Deficit Compulsory-Union-Dues States’ Total Population Aged 35-54 Fell by Roughly Two Million from 2003 to 2013 By Stan Greer Because, as a group, they already have plenty of work experience, but are still able to put in a lot of hours on the job, the 84.2 million Americans who were aged 35-54 in…
Read MoreNILRR Clips August 8, 2014
National Right to Work Supreme Court Victory Forces SEIU to Abandon Forced Dues Demands in Illinois, Minnesota, & Massachusetts nrtw.org, August 5, 2014 “Thanks to a National Right to Work Foundation-won victory at the U.S. Supreme Court, SEIU bosses across the country are being forced to back down from their forced union dues demands,” stated…
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