Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
Morgan-Stanley Expert Predicts Tesla Factory in Texas
An analyst at Morgan Stanley strongly believes Texas is the most likely location for the next Tesla factory.
Read MoreStampede to Leave Forced-Dues California Spikes Moving Costs
People abandoning LA pay a “huge premium” for U-Haul trucks “leaving California” (the largest-population state without Right to Work protections for employees) “for Texas” (the largest-population Right to Work state). On the flip-side, should Texans want to go West, there is a “huge discount for trucks leaving Texas for California,” according to American Enterprise Institute…
Read MoreForced-Dues State Households Have Less Real Income and more news
Forced-Dues State Households Have Less Real Income www.nilrr.org, October 22, 2018 MERIC’s annual data for 2017 show that, among the 14 states with the highest overall cost of living last year, not one has on the books and in effect a Right to Work law barring the termination of employees for refusal to join or…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News August 10, 2018
Down but not out: Look for right-to-work to be resurrected onenewsnow.com, August 08, 2018 Tuesday night’s vote was a big win for unions, which The Associated Press says spent millions of dollars in recent weeks to convince Missourians that right-to-work is bad for the Show Me State. “I’ve already talked to a number of legislators…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News June 15, 2018
Will Repeal Right to Work Law, Michigan Governor Candidate Vows heartland.org, June 12, 2018 Gretchen Whitmer, a candidate in the Michigan Democratic Party gubernatorial primary, says she will work to repeal the state’s right-to-work (RTW) law, if selected by her party and elected in November. Stan Greer, a senior research associate for the National Institute…
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Appeals Ct. to Hear Illinois Homecare Providers’ Forced Union Dues Case Seeking Over $32M CNSNews Online, May 17, 2017 Today, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorney Bill Messenger will argue before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on behalf of Illinois homecare personal assistants in Riffey v. SEIU. The…
Read MoreBig Labor Has No Legitimate Grievance Regarding Right to Work Laws
Whether or Not They Wield Forced-Dues Privileges, Union Bosses Benefit From the ‘Comprehensive Authority’ Over Employees Bestowed Upon Them by Federal and State Laws Authorizing ‘Exclusive Representation’ (Click here to download Adobe .PDF file of ‘No Legitimate Grievance’Fact Sheet) In the private-sector economy, two federal laws, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Railway…
Read More‘Members-Only Unions Are Not a Theoretical Construct or Historical Remnant’
An issue brief published early this month by the New York City-based and Big Labor-“friendly” Century Foundation (see the link below to read the whole thing) discusses a labor-relations topic that, as coauthors Moshe Marvit and Leigh Anne Schriever acknowledge up front, is unfamiliar to many Americans who are otherwise knowledgeable about unions and how…
Read MoreThe Texas Advantage Over New Hampshire
Right to Work, business-friendly Texas offers a sensible alternative to New Hampshire’s high taxes and lack of incentives for businesses. Andrew Cline has the story in the Wall Street Journal. Granite State Democrats are spooked by a man more than 1,000 miles away: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. This summer Mr. Abbott helped clarify a long-standing…
Read MoreFederal Union Lawyers Rediscover Freedom of Non-Association
By Repudiating Their Monopoly Privileges, Union Officials Can Restore Their Own Ability to Choose Who May Join A little more than three decades ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan’s majority opinion in Roberts v. U.S. Jaycees[1] cited several ways in which government actions may “unconstitutionally infringe upon” an individual’s “freedom to speak, to worship,…
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