“The problem [for government union militants] was that Escalante’s classes were big. . . . He was setting a precedent, giving the message to the administrator: ‘If Escalante can do it, why not you?’” Image: Photo previously published in The…
National Right to Work President Congratulates Iowa Legislature On Passing Monopoly Bargaining Reform Bill Legislation will roll back worst abuses of government monopoly bargaining and save taxpayers money Springfield, VA (February 16, 2017) – Today, Mark Mix, President of the…
Pennsylvania labor-law provisions that force local elected officials to recognize a handful of government union bosses as public employees’ monopoly-bargaining agents are the primary reason why politicians like Scranton Mayor Bill Courtright routinely cede “control of the government to unions.”…
As a consequence of a public-safety workforce that is “hamstrung by [Big Labor] work rules,” security practices at the nation’s “highest-value terrorist target,” the World Trade Center complex, have long been and remain today “profoundly deficient at every level, in…
DATE: April 28, 2016 RE: Air Traffic Control Union Empowerment Act (H.R. 4441) POSITION: Oppose…
In their opening paragraph, the Rebecca Friedrichs et al petition for a writ of certiorari (request for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case) cite two recent National Right to Work Foundation U.S. Supreme Court victories to…
Chicago Buckling Under the Weight of Government-Union-Boss Abuses (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) A little over a century after it was memorialized by poet Carl Sandburg as the “City of the Big Shoulders,” Chicago is struggling…
Obama NLRB Ignores 68-Year-Old Statutory Definition of ‘Employer’ (source: National Right to Work October 2015 Newsletter) In the latest of a series of bureaucratic rewrites of federal labor law that are clearly intended to…
On September 24, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued the latest of a series of decisions finding that bosses of Local 8 of the International Longshore Workers Union and the ILWU itself commenced ordering illegal employee slowdowns at the…