Posts Tagged ‘Right to Work’
WV Union Bosses Want Judges to End Right To Work Protections
West Virginia Union Bosses Twisting Facts About ‘Exclusivity’ On May 5, West Virginia union bosses informed the state attorney general and labor commissioner of their intention to sue to overturn S.B.1, the state Right to Work law adopted by legislators over the veto of union-label Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D) in February. The union brass’s…
Read MoreJudge William Foust Either Disingenuous or Ignorant Regarding Union Monopoly Bargaining
Nearly a month after it was issued, union officials and their allies in the media and academia are still vigorously applauding Dane County Circuit Judge William Foust’s April 8 decision overturning Wisconsin’s year-old Right to Work law. Even die-hard apologists for Big Labor monopoly privileges admit Foust’s ruling inMachinists Local Lodge 1061 will almost certainly…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet April 22, 2016
Judge Rules Wisconsin’s Right To Work Statute Illegal — Now What? Forbes.com, April 20, 2016 RJL helped with article So, why is RTW illegal in Wisconsin? Judge Foust states that under RTW, “a free-rider problem is born – the ability of nonmembers to refuse to pay for services unions are compelled to provide by…
Read MoreAre Some Michigan Workers ‘More Equal’ Than Others?
Under the principles of limited government, public decisions are generally made by majority rule, but private decisions are not unless all parties affected by the decision agree to it. Preserving the ability of the individual to make personal decisions without being bound by others’ dictates was a key objective of our Founding Fathers when they…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet February 19, 2016
Union Fees Case is Not Over Legal team plans to move for Friedrichs case to be re-heard Center for Individual Rights www.cir-usa.org, February 17, 2016 The Court could decide on its own to set the case for re-argument next term. If instead it issues a 4-4 decision, the lawyers for Friedrichs plan to file…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Far More Costly to Live in
Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC), a state government agency, published its latest set of state comparative cost-of-living indices. (See the link below.Because late 2015 data for New Mexico could not be obtained, it is excluded.) MERIC’s new indices estimate the average annual cost of living in 2015 for each…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet February 12, 2016
National Right to Work Committee Congratulates West Virginia on Becoming 26th Right to Work State nrtwc.org, February 12, 2016 “Today marks a tremendous victory in the fight to protect every West Virginian’s right to get or keep a job without having to pay union dues or fees. With the House of Delegates and Senate…
Read MoreIn Forced-Unionism States, State and Local Taxes Consume an Average of 10.8% of Personal Income
Taken in conjunction with personal income data supplied by the U.S. Commerce Department, data from a report on “Tax Freedom Day 2015” published by the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation last spring show that federal, state and local taxes consume nearly 33% of all income for the residents of the 25 forced-unionism states, compared to a…
Read MoreWhy Are Breadwinners Fleeing West Virginia and Other Forced-Unionism States?
The vehemently anti-Right to Work Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has issued a new briefing paper suggesting that it’s impossible to say whether or not enactment of a state Right to Work law will foster accelerated economic growth in West Virginia. And the EPI’s partisan academics appear to assume the entire case for passing Right to…
Read MoreOut-Migration of Residents From Forced-Dues States Accelerated Last Year
On December 22, a U.S. Census Bureau data release(see the first link below for more information) revealed an acceleration of the massive exodus of employees, prospective employees, and their families from forced-unionism states. This is an exodus that the Census Bureau has documented ever since it began tracking state-to-state migration during the 1990’s. In the…
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