The Wall Street Journal story that "Income Slides to 1996 Levels; Median Household Earnings Fall for Third Year, Census Says" gave NILRR research the idea to compare two states: Texas & Illinois.

In Texas, median household income in constant 2010 dollars increased from $45,763 in 1996 to $47,464 in 2010, a 3.7% increase.

Illinois saw real household income decline, from $54,733 to $50,761, a 7.3% drop

On February 26, 2010 the National Institute for Labor Relations Research received, as a donation, documents partially fulfilling a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that had been made by the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation to the United States Department of Energy. The documents consist of all non-career employees’ EO 13490 Ethics Pledges and Waivers, including all PAS and Schedule-C appointees.

The Institute now has the FOIA documents on file at its headquarters in Springfield, Va., and will make then available upon request to anyone who wishes to review them. The Institute may be contacted by phone at 703-321-9606 or through the mail at the following address:

National Institute for Labor Relations Research
5211 Port Royal Road, Suite 510
Springfield, Va. 22151

On January 5, 2010 the National Institute for Labor Relations Research received, as a donation, documents partially fulfilling a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that had been made by the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation to the United States Department of Defense. The documents concern information pertaining to congressional military travel requests by Congress, dating from December 2006 through December 2008.

The Institute now has the FOIA documents on file at its headquarters in Springfield, Va., and will make them available upon request to anyone who wishes to review them. The Institute may be contacted by phone at 703-321-9606 or through the mail at the following address:

National Institute for Labor Relations Research
5211 Port Royal Road, Suite 510
Springfield, Va. 22151

Stan Greer from the National Institute of Labor Relations Research explains the problems with Colorado’s Senate Bill 180, which would override local control and mandate collective bargaining for police officers and firefighters. SB 180 would deprive many public servants of the right to choose their own workplace representation (and in some cases force them to pay for it), while not necessarily solving issues related to public safety equipment. Data also indicate that states with higher public-sector unionization mean higher tax bills for their residents.

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Subsection (4) Precludes Monopoly Bargaining, Favoritism, and/or Endorsement of a Union as a Future Option

The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) sent out letters to Utah Public and Private School Superintendents, informing them of the impact of a recently-passed Utah legislation affecting employee-employer relations within the state. See sample letter attached.

For further information on the subject, or a copy of the book Stranglehold, mentioned in the letter, see contact information below.

Contact:

• Stan Greer, senior research associate, 703-321-9606
• Linda Staulcup, research associate, 703-770-2203

North Dakota has a unique opportunity to demonstrate to the rest of the country what can be accomplished by switching from an exclusive-union-bargaining system in public education to a system in which there is room for individual bargaining.

In a letter (see attached), mailed out last week to School Superintendents throughout the state, National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) Senior Research Associate Stan Greer laid out what could be a historic opportunity presented by the North Dakota Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Kenmare Education Association v. Kenmare Public School District No. 28, 2006 ND 136.

Study prepared for union front group uses twisted facts and logic to dupe media and promote anti-worker legislation designed to stifle worker choice

Washington, DC. (January 6, 2006) – The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) has just released a paper that exposes a dishonest research study prepared for the union front group “American Rights at Work” (ARAW) as the product of “academic apologists for top-down organizing” who “ignore basic facts” and rely on “twisted logic” to promote its lobbying agenda.