Posts Tagged ‘James Sherk’
Forced-Dues State Households Have Less Real Income
Higher Costs for Consumers Translate Into Lower Living Standards for Employees and Everyone Else [download fact sheet here] In California, the erstwhile Golden State, K-12 educators obviously recognize that they…
Read MoreWages Up in RTW States
Natalie Johnson has the good news about Right to Work states in the Daily Signal. Private sector wages are not reduced in right-to-work states as union advocates have argued,…
Read MoreMore Official Time Cases in Pennsylvania
James Sherk and Nate Bohlander describe the case of the “missing” teacher. Missing from the classroom, that is, as this teacher currently takes care of union business full time but…
Read MoreJames Sherk on Right to Work Laws
James Sherk, explains the value of Right to Work laws, and reviews campaigns for more laws across the country. He is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Eighteen-year-old…
Read MoreUnion Shoots Down Higher Wages
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23 has taken Gian Eagle Foods to court over raises the grocery store gave some union members. James Sherk questions if unions really do…
Read More‘Unionized Firms Offer Performance-Based Pay Less Than Half as Often’ as Union-Free Businesses
Why Should the Government Prevent Union Members from Earning RAISEs? Most Americans who aren’t close observers of labor-management relations assume that, whatever other faults they may have, union officials can…
Read MoreSherk: A union of One; AFSCME Pulls a Fast One on Daycare Workers
James Sherk, in the Washington Times, makes excellent points about the political power unions possess, passing a law that would allow self-employed workers to unionize. That’s correct – self-employed daycare…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Finance Politicians Because it Pays
James Sherk refutes Ezra Klein’s assertion that America has a “. . . deeply unbalanced political system . . .” by highlighting Big Labor’s ability to donate huge “in-kind” contributions…
Read MoreUnion Membership Falls — Again
James Sherk, Senior Policy Analyst with the Heritage Foundation, explains why unions do not speak for their members, and consequently continue to lose members. The story is on National Review…
Read MoreWorkers Should Not Be Forced to Accept a Union’s Services
Unelected Unions: Why Workers Should Be Allowed to – InsiderOnline Well-intentioned critics of teacher union officials often complain that they favor the interests of educators over those of schoolchildren.…
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