Posts Tagged ‘Right to Work’
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…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet December 04, 2015
Worker files unfair labor charge against GM, UAW Detroit News Online, December 01, 2015 Daniel Lowery of Holly is claiming unfair labor practices against the three entities, according to a copy of the charges filed last week by the National Right to Work Defense Foundation Inc. on behalf of Lowery. The foundation says Lowery’s charges…
Read MoreWho Does UAW Speak for?
The United Auto Workers union bosses find themselves unable to control the rank and file members for many reasons, one of which is Michigan’s Right to Work Law.With workers having a choice about union membership, many are choosing to refrain, and the UAW is having difficulties meeting its annual budget. Joann Muller has the story…
Read More60% of West Virginians Support Right to Work
Union bosses in West Virginia are running scared as a public opinion poll shows 60% of West Virginians support a Right To Work law for the Mountain State. A Right To Work lawfor West Virginia would realize the state’s motto, “Montani Semper Liberi,” or “Mountaineers are Always Free.” Jason Hart has the story onwatchdog.org. To…
Read MoreRight to Work Clipsheet November 20, 2015
Friedrichs Amicus Brief: National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation onlabor.org, November 18, 2015 “This point is dispositive,” the foundation claims, because “Abood’s ‘free rider’ rationale is predicated on the opposite presumption: that exclusivity is a burden imposed on unions that impedes their ability to recruit members. This supposition turns reality on its head. Far…
Read MoreThe ‘Facile Generalization That There Is No Constitutionally Protected Right to Public Employment Is to Obscure the Issue’
In their November 6 merits brief in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association (accessible at the first link below), a team of government union lawyers led by David Frederick of the Inside-the-D.C. Beltway firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel make extraordinary explicit and implicit claims regarding how much power over individual educators state…
Read MoreTeacher Union Lawyers Tacitly Admit Many Educators Get Paid Less as a Consequence of Monopolistic Unionism
Under an array of federal court precedents such as Atkins v. City of Charlotte and the labor statutes of every state in the union, K-12 public educators have the right to join and financially support a union without being fired as a consequence. But otherwise the state laws and policies governing labor-management relations in public…
Read MoreRight 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 MoreLongshoremen’s Association Endorses Hillary Clinton
International Longshoreman’sAssociation (ILA) officials madeit clear they mean to consolidate their power by announcingtheir endorsement of Hillary Clinton in Right to Work South Carolina.She peppered her acceptance speech with references toThe Palmetto State being a Right to Work state. Schulyer Kropf has the story in the Post And Courier Online. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet October 30, 2015
Union calls for full investigation into Housing Authority of Baltimore City Baltimore Sun Online, October 23, 2015 Union leader Glenard S. Middleton called Thursday for a “full investigation” into the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, following allegations some maintenance workers demanded sex from female residents to make repairs. Why 8,737 UPS retirees are bracing for…
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