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Collectivism Forever: Union Bosses Stymie Efforts to Raise Workers’ Wages

Michael Giles and Vincent Vernuccio explain:  Why Unions Don’t Want Workers to Earn More: The RAISE Act would allow employers to give individual workers pay increases without going through a union....

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Mallory Factor’s “Shadowbosses” Predicts Taxpayers’ Future

Mark Tapscott, Executive Editor for the Washington Examiner,  reveals the story behind Mallory Factor’s groundbreaking new book about government employee unions.  His review invites speculation as to...

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Major media outlets fail to explain what right-to-work laws do

Sean Higgins of the Washington Examiner: My column in today’s paper is about how critics of right-to-work laws almost never bother to explain exactly what the laws do. That’s because a clear...

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‘s Resignation Leaves NLRB With Partisan Board

Sean Higgins discusses the high probability of an all-Democrat National Labor Relations Board in the Washington Times:   Like much of the rest of Washington, the supposedly independent National Labor...

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NLRB Attempts Overturn of Supreme Knox Case

In an unprecedented power grab, Obama’s all-Democrat National Labor Relations Board, has ruled nonunion workers cannot request an accounting of where their union dures are going:  The Washington Times...

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Hilda Solis Failed Big Labor Bosses

Byron York, Washington Examiner, gives Hilda Solis the farewell she deserves after 4 years of using the Department of Labor to promote froced-dues, union boss mentality in an agency that is supposed to...

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Op-Ed: Obama NLRB expands unions’ right to nonunion workers’ cash

Mark Mix in the Washington Examiner: Federal statutes grant Big Labor extraordinary power over individual workers. Except in right-to-work states, union officials can have workers fired for refusing to...

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Government Employee Unions Spending More on Political Action

Government employee unions are expanding their power with more and more political spending.  The Wasington Examiner Watchdog Staff has the story. Approximately half of the federal government’s 2.1...

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Obama’s Big Labor Payback Includes Federal Employees

The Washington Examiner’s Sean Higgins examines the Executive Order the president signed in 2009 which created a council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, which gives federal government employee...

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Change to Win Union Contemplates Reunion With AFL-CIO

The United Food and Commercial workers, part of the original Change to Win Coalition, appears to be doing just that.  After 8 years, it looks as if they may be willing to throw their lot back with the...

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NILRR Weekly Clips, July 26, 2013

  NRTW Foundation starts Pgh ads Pittsburgh Post Gazette Online, July 23, 2013 The conservative National Right To Work Foundation is starting a decent-sized ad buy in the Pittsburgh market today that...

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NILRR Weekly News Clips August 1, 2013

Holden postal worker files complaint after dues still taken from paycheck despite quitting union Bangor Daily News Online, August 2, 2013 She said she could not discuss details of the charge because of...

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NILRR Weekly News Clips August 9, 2013

A Union Run Amok   National Review Online, August 8, 2013 John Raudabaugh, a staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation, is representing Clark. He says the union failed to inform...

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Trumka sees the Light — 30 years of Stagnation

The AFL-CIO has been toying iwth the idea of organizing nonunion workers for a while now.  On Thursday, Richard Trumka announced intentions to put this idea into action by courting left-wing...

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NILRR News Clips August 23, 2013

  Ohio Governor Has No Credible Excuse For Waving the White Flag on Right to Work August 17th, 2013 An Ohio Prescription for GOP: Lower Taxes, More Aid for Poor   Scientific polling ind[...] Cities...

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NILRR Weekly Newsclips, November 08, 2013

    Group files complaint about Unified’s vote to negotiate with unions Kenosha News Online, November 08, 2013 According to a statement from the Institute, the complaint was filed on behalf of Kristi...

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NLRB Sanctions Payment for UFCW Protestors at Wal-Mart

In an unprecedented power play, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled the United Food and Commercial Workers bosses paying nonunion people to protest at Wal-Mart last year, was not illegal....

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SEIU Planning More Fast Food Demonstrations

It appears Service Employees International Union officials continue ploughing money and workers into an organizing campaign directed towards fast-food workers.  These workers so far have not responded...

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UAW and GM Strangely Silent on GM Stock Sale

Sean Higgins comments on the notable lack of response from the UAW and the AFL-CIO. The sale meant that taxpayers were losing $10 billion, so some extra justification was necessary. GM officials have...

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Common Core Supporters Shun Publicity

Supporters of the Common Core curriculum suddenly don’t want their names mentioned in President Obama’s State of the Union  Address.  Sean Higgins of the Washington Examiner, has the story. Common Core...

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