Teamsters ordered not to “threaten to kill … sexually assault employees or their family members … use racial epithets … [much more]”

Just a few snippets from a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) order that the Teamsters union was ordered to post. As the National Institute for Labor Relations Research obtains more NLRB posters we will keep adding to our newly created list of Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) related NLRB-ordered posters. This list should help illustrate the…

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Asbury: Right-to-Work States’ Policies Validated by Foreign Car Manufacturers

Author Neal Asbury picked up on a CNS commentary by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research Director Stan Greer. The article, Manufacturing Moves to Right to Work States, was one of the pieces of evidence proffered by Asbury in his excellent NewsMAX article quoted in the title. Asbury wrote: According to CNS News, “U.S. Commerce Department statistics,…

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Terminated Carpenters Union Managed Pension Annually Resuscitated by PBGC

The U.S. Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration keeps track of “Critical and Declining, Critical, and Endangered” multiemployer pension funds. During 2016, 86 of these labor union dominated plans were in Critical Declining Status, 168 were in Critical Status, and 98 were in Endangered Status.[i] Critical and declining status has ballooned since first being established…

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William B. Ruggles Journalist Scholarship List of Related Subjects

The NationalInstitute for Labor Relations Researchannually awards the William B. Ruggles Right to Work Scholarship, which honors the esteemed Texas journalist who coined the phrase “Right to Work” and contributed greatly to the movement’s advancement. A $2,000 scholarship is awarded to the student who exemplifies the dedication to principle and high journalistic standards of the…

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More numbers behind the “2016 Big Labor $1.7 Billion Political Spending”

More political spenders exposed from Monday’s “2016 Election Cycle: Big Labor Exceeds $1.7 Billion Political Spending” data. Which union officials spent their union’s money to reach the Top 35 Total Political Spenders from Union Treasuries according to USDOL data? (Psst… the Top 35 accounted for $801,639,265 of the 2016 Election Cycle from union treasuries.) Which…

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Right to Work States Attract Job-Creating Investments From Abroad

Right to Work States Attract Job-Creating Investments From Abroad From 2007 to 2013, Total Employment at Majority-Owned U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Firms Grew by 14.4% in Right to Work States as Group, More Than Triple the Average Increase in Compulsory-Unionism States Economic analysts and elected officials across the ideological spectrum agree that the elimination of…

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Oklahoma Economy Rides the Right to Work Freedom Wave

Oklahoman Op-Ed by  Stan Greer: A little more than nine years ago, the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected a two-year-long campaign by labor union lawyers to get the state’s right-to-work law invalidated. Chief Justice Joseph Watt rebuffed union lawyers: “[T]o hold the right to work amendment unconstitutional under the circumstances presented here would be to thwart…

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