Posts Tagged ‘Right to Work’
NILRR Right to Work News Clips December 30, 2016
It’s time for Pa. to get serious about ‘Right to Work’: Colin McNickle pennlive.com, December 30, 2016 The principle of the right to work is gaining steam across America. Will Pennsylvania stoke the boilers of real progress and hop aboard the train? Ex-union boss charged with bribery likens himself to Jesus New York Post…
Read MoreRight to Work States Economically Out-Perform Forced-Unionism New Hampshire
Last month, New Hampshire Executive Council Member Chris Sununu was elected as governor after running a campaign in which he publicly pledged again and again to fight for passage of a state Right to Work law if victorious. Now, as Sununu prepares to take over as the Granite State’s chief executive, he and his allies…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News Clips December 23, 2016
Right to Work on the March Wall Street Journal Online, December 19, 2016 The New Year will bring change in the states as well as Washington, D.C., and that includes the likely expansion of right-to-work laws to help the economic competitiveness of Missouri, Kentucky and even New Hampshire. Ninth Circuit Sides With Growers Against…
Read MoreWorking-Age People ‘Are Leaving’ Big Labor Stronghold States ‘in Droves’
Writing for the Washington Times early this month, Stephen Moore, an economist with Freedom Works and recently a senior economic adviser to the Trump campaign, pointed out that, among the 10 states handing the widest-margin victories to the Big Labor-backed Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine ticket in fall’s presidential campaign, all suffered net losses of population due to…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News Clips December 09, 2016
Kanawha circuit judge holds hearing on right-to-work law West Virginia Record Online, December 06, 2016 Mark Mix, the president for the National Right to Work Foundation, said in a press release that “Big Labor’s” latest attack on Right to Work is in a state where there is “overwhelmingly support for the measure.” “Big Labor’s lawyers…
Read MoreMost-Indebted States Favor Forced Dues
A recent report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) adds to the evidence that government union officials endowed with monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges routinely wield them to jack up governments’ long-term spending commitments. As a consequence of Big Labor’s compulsory dues-financed lobbying successes, states that give more special privileges to public-sector union officials routinely…
Read MoreNLRB 3-0, Exclusivity a Thing of Value, No Forced Fees
Who benefits from the federal labor laws that authorize union officials to act as the “exclusive” (monopoly) bargaining agents of all the front-line employees in a business with regard to their pay, benefits, and work rules? Early this year, three of President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) appointees were confronted with this question.…
Read MoreLose Your Freedom, Then Forfeit Part of Your Paycheck?
For decades, Right to Work supporters have known government-authorized “exclusive” union representation turns dissenting employees into Big Labor’s “captive passengers.” The employees’ personal liberty is denied. Legislation that grants agents of private organizations, known as unions, to exclusively negotiate with a business or public employer on matters of employees’ pay, benefits, and work rules takes…
Read MoreRank-and-File Unionists Overwhelmingly Disagree With AFL-CIO Czar About Right to Work Laws
While professional political pundits like to think of unionized workers and their family members as a “voting bloc,” the fact is that on a wide array of issues the views of the union rank and file as a group don’t differ substantially from those of other Americans. The Right to Work issue is a case…
Read MoreFederal Data Indicate Forced Unionism Helped Impoverish Monessen, Pa.
With Pennsylvania emerging as a potential “battleground” state in the fall 2016 presidential contest, the Trump and Clinton campaigns are both claiming they will, if elected, revive the fortunes of the former steel towns along the Monongahela River. Economically depressed Monessen, located 35 miles south of Pittsburgh, is a notable example. What went wrong in…
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