Posts Tagged ‘Wisconsin’
NILRR Right to Work in the News February 03, 2017
National right-to-work bill introduced in Congress Washington Examiner Online, February 02, 2017 Republican lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday that would prohibit workers from being required to support a union, making right-to-work laws the national standard. If enacted, the legislation would be a major challenge for organized labor, which has long counted on union-management contracts that force…
Read MoreMilwaukee Newspaper Investigation Shows How Act 10 Reforms Have Changed Wisconsin For the Better
In the summer of 2011, roughly five-and-a-half years ago, Wisconsin became the first state in U.S. history to implement a major legislative rollback of government union bosses’ monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges. The rollback and the comprehensive public-spending reform package of which it was a part, commonly known as Act 10, have been successful by all…
Read MoreAct 10 Allows ‘Good Teachers to Move to Districts That Can Provide a Better Opportunity’
For roughly half a century, government union bosses in Wisconsin wielded statutory power to act as public educators’ “exclusive” bargaining agents with school officials regarding matters of pay, benefits, and work rules. And for roughly four decades starting in 1971, government union bosses also had the power to get teachers fired for refusal to pay…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet
Hillary Pledges Support for Union Agenda Free Beacon, June 22, 2016 “We should strengthen unions that have formed the bedrock of a strong middle class. It should be easier to bargain collectively,” she said. “That’s not only fair, it makes workers more productive and strengthens our economy.” ABC’s Fight Against Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements Produces…
Read MoreSEIU’s Wisconsin Political Shell Game
Daily Caller uses NILRR.org Data to Expose SEIU In Connor Wolf’s Daily Caller article Major Union Makes $2 Million Magically Disappear, Wolf uses National Institutes for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) data below to expose SEIU’s forced-dues shell game. While “SEIU, its local committee and Wisconsin Jobs Now did not respond to a request for comment” by the…
Read MoreJudge William Foust Either Disingenuous or Ignorant Regarding Union Monopoly Bargaining
Nearly a month after it was issued, union officials and their allies in the media and academia are still vigorously applauding Dane County Circuit Judge William Foust’s April 8 decision overturning Wisconsin’s year-old Right to Work law. Even die-hard apologists for Big Labor monopoly privileges admit Foust’s ruling inMachinists Local Lodge 1061 will almost certainly…
Read MoreLabor Unions’ Donations
Senator Russ Feingold is “. . . listening to Wisconsin. . . ” while he willingly accepts campaign donations from Big Labor and other out of state sources. M.D. Kittle has the story in WisconsinWatchdog.org. Big labor in particular has spent big money on the Middleton liberal in his bid to take back the seat…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet April 22, 2016
Judge Rules Wisconsin’s Right To Work Statute Illegal — Now What? Forbes.com, April 20, 2016 RJL helped with article So, why is RTW illegal in Wisconsin? Judge Foust states that under RTW, “a free-rider problem is born – the ability of nonmembers to refuse to pay for services unions are compelled to provide by…
Read MoreWisconsin Workers’ Rights Violated
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has taken on a case for a group of 10 employees of Maysteel Industries in what appears to be a violatio of Wisconsin’s new Right to Work Law. Arthur Thomas has the story in the Milwaukee Biz Times. Attorneys for Maysteel Industries and the union at its…
Read MoreWisconsin Act 10 “Breath of Fresh Air”
The MacIver Institute gathered comments from local government executives on the solid benefits of Act 10. The Wisconsin law,passed in 2011,tightened the rein on public employee unionism. Local officials joined Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday to describe how Act 10 has benefited their communities in the five years since the landmark law’s enactment in 2011.…
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