Posts Tagged ‘Right to Work’
First Amendment Protects a Public Servant’s Freedom Not to Join — a Labor Union
Forty-five years ago this February, a federal court overturned North Carolina statutory provisions restricting municipal employees’ right to join, aid and assist labor organizations, finding them to be “an abridgment of the freedom of association protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments” of the U.S. Constitution. This conclusion by a three judge panel on the…
Read MoreGovernment Unions May ‘Interfere . . . With an Employee’s Freedom to Associate’
There are many problems with rabidly pro-forced unionism California labor studies professor John Logan’s attack op-ed, published by The Hill today (see the link below), against the plaintiffs and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys who have represented them in Harris v. Quinn, a case the U.S. Supreme Court will almost certainly…
Read MoreMichigan Right to Work Law Frees Workers
The Wall Street Journal reports how workers in Michigan left the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in droves after passage of the 2012 Right to Work law passed in Michigan. The dramatic decrease in membership serves to prove that if a union is beneficial for workers it does not have to coerce people into joining.…
Read MoreHow Much Has Athens (Ohio) News Editor Terry Smith Actually Thought About the Right to Work Issue?
Like many media apologists for compulsory unionism, Athens (Ohio) News editor Terry Smith is adept at sneering at people who don’t share his views. But his ability to do even minimal research on the topic about which he recently wrote is questionable. Near the beginning of a pro-union monopoly screed he penned for his newspaper…
Read MoreWisconsin GOP Vote to Promote Right to Work and Charter Schools
While the Wisconsin state Republican convention voted to oppose Common Core standards in the Badger State, they also voted in favor of school choice and promoting a Right to Work Law. Marge Pitroff has the story in WUWM, Wisconsin’s public radio station. At the weekend gathering in downtown Milwaukee, the incumbent[Governor Scott Walker]easily won Republican…
Read MoreIn 2010 Alone, Forced-Unionism States Lost $11.5 Billion in Income Due to Net Out-Migration of Taxpayers
After a long delay, the IRS has finally released data regarding the fiscal impact on the 50 states resulting from the migration of taxpayers in 2010. Comparable data for 2011 are expected to be published soon. Drawing upon an analysis of the newly issued IRS taxpayer migration data by Jim Pettit, a Human Events contributor,…
Read MoreMissouri UFCW Boss’s Apologia For Forced Unionism Misrepresents the Facts
A long article appearing in the Columbia Missourian yesterday (see the link below) about grass-roots efforts to make Missouri America’s 25th Right to Work state is a mixed bag. Reporter Casey Bischel uncritically repeats several standard Big Labor canards regarding government-promoted union monopoly bargaining in the workplace and the compulsory union dues and fees for…
Read MoreIn Forced-Unionism States, State and Local Taxes Consume a 25% Higher Share of Personal Income Than in Right to Work States
Taken in conjunction with personal income data supplied by the U.S. Commerce Department, data from a report on “Tax Freedom Day 2014” published by the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation early this month show that federal, state and local taxes consume roughly 32% of all income for residents of the 26 forced-unionism states, compared to a…
Read MoreMissouri Right to Work Would Bring More Jobs
Investors Business Daily explores the economic growth potential forthe Show Me stateif the legislature passes a Right to Work law this week. The editorial appears in Investors.com. Missouri’s legislature votes this week on whether to become a right-to-work state. More hiring is the goal, and if any state needs a jobs pick-me-up, it’s the Show…
Read More‘Townies’ and ‘Gownies’ Alike Find Opportunities in Right to Work States
To explain away slow workforce growth in forced-unionism states like New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York and California, Big Labor allies sometimes adopt an oddly elitist stance:Union boss-controlledstates may indeed belosing far more employees due to out-migration tothe rest of the country than they are gainingdue toin-migration, apologists concede, but they are doing just fine when…
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