Posts Tagged ‘Right to Work’
What Democracy Really Looks Like
Heritage Foundation‘s Ed Fuelner on Michigan Right to Work passage: In a statewide election in Michigan last month, voters soundly defeated Proposal 2, a measure that would have made union collective bargaining a right and given collective bargaining agreements the force of law. Voters shot down the union-backed measure 57-43 percent. This, too, is what…
Read MoreMilton Friedman: Forced Union Dues Are ‘Almost Always a Symbol of Monopoly Power’
The Libertarian Case Against Right-to-Work Laws – Reason.com Most of the millions and millions of Right to Work supporters across America do not consider themselves to be libertarians. But Right to Work supporters, regardless of their general ideological stance, and libertarians have long had a lot in common. To start with, Right to Work advocates and libertarians…
Read MoreJudge hears arguments in right to work lawsuit
Teresa Auch Schultz reports on Big Labor’s suit against Michigan’s Right to Work Law, in the Chicago Post Tribune. Attorneys for Indiana and a local union argued Friday afternoon whether a federal lawsuit aimed against the state’s right-to-work law should continue. The state argued that the lawsuit, filed at U.S. District Court in Hammond by…
Read MoreUnion Protestors Cause $35,000 and More in Damage
Adding insult to injury, the company which suffered the damage will now face additional liability due to the vandalism. Jack Spencer at Michigan Capitol Confidential has the story: Union protesters caused at least $35,000 in damage when they trampled and sliced up two tents on the Michigan Capitol lawn during protests against right-to-work legislation this…
Read More‘We’ll Be At Your Daughter’s Soccer Game!’
The drama continues.   Reverend Williams’ assurance that Big Labor proponents would follow Gov. Rick Snyder to his daughter’s soccer game, appeared to be empty, as his daughter doesn’t even play soccer. . . Jarrett Skorup has the story at Michigan Capitol Confidential A speaker at a union protest against right-to-work legislation said if Gov. Rick Snyder…
Read MoreMichigan Unions Demonstrate Against Freedom
Michael Reagan comments on Big Labor’s violence during passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law. All those union thugs who were rioting in Michigan last week were angry about the wrong thing. They were demonstrating – which in union-speak means breaking things and punching people – against Michigan’s decision to become a right-to-work state. If…
Read MoreFreedom is not the unions’ friend
George Will comments on the economic impact of the Michigan Right to Work Law Rick Snyder, who is hardly a human cactus, warned Michigan’s labor leaders. The state’s mild-mannered Republican governor, currently in his first term in his first public office, has rarely been accused of being, or praised for being, a fire-breathing conservative. When…
Read MoreRight to work? Workers vote with their feet
Glenn Garvin, Miami Herald Online, explains why labor-backed politicians and Big Labor won’t succeed in destroying Michigan’s Right to Work Law: Labor unions and their political buddies have sworn that they will roll back the right-to-work law passed by the Michigan Legislature earlier this month. But to win the right to work battle, the union…
Read MoreIn Indiana, Right-to-work status is ‘icing on the cake’
Ron Starner, Site Selection.com, praises the impact of Indiana’s new Right to Work law. “We are on a record pace for business expansion this year,” says Hasler, who was appointed to his post by Gov. Mitch Daniels after serving as vice president of global marketing for the Fortune 500 global pharmaceutical company. “We are on…
Read MorePresident Misrepresents Michigan Right To Work Laws
ThisPittsburgh Tribune editorial comments on President Obama’s scorn for a Right to Work law, and a toast fora 25th! The most shocking thing about Michigan’s right-to-work law isn’t the law itself but the outright lies the Obama administration, led by the president himself, has been telling about it. But President Obama, ever the demagogue of…
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