Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
$1.1 Million on Monopoly Bargaining
San Antonio, Texas, spent $1.1 million on monopoly bargaining negotiations. Dillon Collier has the story on KENS live. The city of San Antonio has spent more than $1.1 million dollars on collective bargaining negotiations, city records revealed this week. The figure, which covers January 1, 2014 to May 18, 2015, is made up of outside…
Read MoreTexas Tames Dues Deductions
Texas State Senators have passed legislation that will end the government deducting dues from government employees’ paychecks. Automatic dues deduction is practiced inman states and union bosses benefit by not having to spend a dime collecting members’ dues. The government does it all for them, saving union bosses a ton of cash. Mike Ward has…
Read MoreOpportunities For the ‘Middle-Educated’ and the College-Educated
NILRR Fact Sheet — College-Educated and ‘Middle-Educated’ Employee web Census Bureau Data Show That Non-Holders, Holders of Bachelor’s Degrees Are Flocking to Right to Work States By Stan Greer As a number of workforce analysts have noted, one way in which Americans in their teens and their twenties have attempted to shield themselves from the…
Read MoreCalifornian proclaims: Welcome Texans
California appears open for business. That is, open for Right to Work states to come in and court businesses to relocate in their states. Steve Malanga has the story publicsectorinc.com. We’ve written before about the efforts of Texas Gov. Rick Perry to lure California businesses to his state, which elicited a scatological response from Gov.…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips August 16, 2013
Job, Income Data Indicate Right to Work Laws Economically Beneficial National Institute for Labor Relations Research Right to Work Fact Sheet, August 13, 2013 As of the end of 2012, 22 states had Right to Work laws on the books prohibiting the termination of employees for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted…
Read MoreRight to Work and a Test for Republicans
NILRR shows how Right to Work can improve a state’s good economy. Kristina Roegner has the story in theWall Street Journal. Here in the Buckeye State, we’ve made major economic strides over the past two and a half years. Facing an $8 billion budget deficit in 2011 and unemployment over 9%, Gov. John Kasich and…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips May 24, 2013
Tennessee helps lead resurgence in U.S. manufacturing jobs blogs.tennessean.com, May 23, 2013 Tennessee was among the leaders in U.S. manufacturing resurgence during the first quarter of 2013, with a nearly 5 percent gain in jobs over the same period last year, according to a report from IHS Global Insight. Left Blames NLRB…
Read MoreTop 10 Business States Are Right to Work States; Bottom 3 Forced Unionism States
Chief Executive Magazine’s survey of CEO’s brought some good, but not necessarily new news. The top 10 states for business are Right to Work states, and 3 of the bottom 10 are forced-dues states. While Michigan ranks near the bottom, its Right to Work Law has only been in effect for little over a month. Charlie…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips February 22, 2013
NLRB Sneak Attack on First Amendment Shopfloor.org, February 15, 2013 The NLRB is up to its sneaky ways and they are hoping to slip another precedent shattering decision under the radar. According to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Beck decision, employees can object to a portion of union dues’ expenditures if the…
Read MoreMike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable”
Mike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable” NEA hada total of 3,166,761 members of all types, of whom 2,807,332 were active and employed in the public school system. Be aware that these are individual souls, not full-time equivalents. Forty-four state affiliates lost active members in 2010-11. The following…
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