Posts Tagged ‘New York’
Right to Work for New Mexico
David Dowd Muska writes on the advantage a Right to Work law would bring to New Mexico. New Mexico doesn’t have a jobs problem. It has a jobs crisis. There are many tools state policymakers can use to restore vibrant job growth, but perhaps no reform offers more promise than passage of a right-to-work (RTW)…
Read MoreThomas Perez’s Smoke and Mirrors
Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is using smoke and mirrors to make it appear union members make more than nonunion workers. Diana Furchtgott-Roth debunks the Labor Secretary’s fable about the earning power of union membership in the Manhattan Institute. . . . Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is resurrecting the old canard that workers do better in…
Read MoreNY Teacher Union Defies Police, Protects Heroin-Using School Teacher; Parents Furious
Here’s another example of teacher union bosses protecting their own interests over that of the students and the public. It seems teacher union bosses of Fallsburg, New York, now have authority over even the police. Union officials in the town areblocking police attempts to find a drug user by refusing to allow the suspects to…
Read MoreFormer Union Member Recounts Reign of Terror in New York
A former union member recounts union bosses’ reign of terror in Northern New York against nonunion contactors. Phil Fairbanks has the story in the Buffalo News. Even more important, perhaps, they were co-defendants in a criminal prosecution that rocked the local construction industry with allegations of violence and vandalism against non-union contractors. There was a…
Read MoreUnion Boss: “By Signing the Negatives Go Away”
Operating Engineers’ unionbossthreatensa nonunion conractor who questions the benefit of using union labor. Michael J. Caggiano was also convicted of misdemeanor assault onnonunion contractor Timothy Such, whose business is now defunct. Phil Fairbanks has the story in The Buffalo News. The two men had crossed paths before, but this time the altercation escalated, and Caggiano,…
Read MoreFuture Employees, Employers Are Migrating to Right to Work States
Compulsory-Unionism States’ ‘Under 18’ Population Is on Track to Plummet by 2.16 Million From 2010 to 2020 By Stan Greer (Click to download Adobe pdf file) U.S. Census Bureau data covering the period from July 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013, the three most recent years now available, suggest that the population-growth advantage of Right…
Read MoreILA, Charged With Racketeering, Attempts to Strong-Arm Shipping Terminal Operator
American Stevedoring alleges International Longshoreman’s Union officials have put the company out of business because of their connection to organized crime schemes. Steve Strunksy has the story in the Ledger-Times. A former shipping terminal operator in Newark and Brooklyn is suing the International Logshoremen’s Association for $160 million, charging that leaders of the 65,000-member dockworkers’…
Read MoreAt Least The Lawyer Will Serve Jail Time
The State Thruway Workers’ Union president blasted a former union attorney for the theft of money from union workers. Union bosses routinely get away with collecting dues from workers without their permission every day, with no punishment. At least the lawyer has been sentenced to jail time. Here’s the story in The New York Post:…
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…
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