Posts Tagged ‘New York City’
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Forced-Dues State Households Have Less Real Income www.nilrr.org, October 22, 2018 MERIC’s annual data for 2017 show that, among the 14 states with the highest overall cost of living last…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News March 23, 2018
Featured Video — I Was a Union President. Now I Support Right to Work capitalresearch.org, March 20, 2018 Ben Johnson spent the last decade as treasurer and then president of…
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The Janus Stakes empirecenter.org, January 09, 2018 As shown in this report, if the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiff in Janus, New York state government and New York City…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet March 03, 2017
Seventh Circuit hears arguments over IL ‘fair share’ union fees; case may be headed to SCOTUS Cook County Record Online, March 01, 2017 However, attorney William Messenger, of the National…
Read MoreEven Wall Street Isn’t Immune From Forced-Unionism Ills
Largely due to the inordinate clout of Big Labor’s forced union dues-funded political machine over New York’s elected officials, the Empire State’s employees, business owners, and other taxpayers have long…
Read MoreWhy Do New York City Union Bosses Oppose Safer Pensions For Their Members?
In city after city where government union bosses acquired monopoly power to negotiate public employee, pay benefits, and work rules several decades ago, looming public pension shortfalls represent a grave…
Read MoreForced-Unionism Statutes Suppress Job Growth in Many Business Sectors, Including Traditionally Union-Free Ones
Today apologists for compulsory union dues and fees often suggest that, because only a little more than seven percent of private-sector employees in the U.S. are covered by a union…
Read MoreUnion Officials Forced to End Month-Long Strike
Unable to live on the strike pay they were drawing, rank and file union members withdrew their support from their union bosses. This forced Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181’s bosses to…
Read MoreTaste of the Future
John Podhoretz puts a new angle on the New York City bus strike, predicting other cities will experience the same sort of trouble as public sector union bosses lose more…
Read MoreNew York City Union Officials Fiddle While Their Members Must Be Burning
Another example of union bosses’ contempt for their rank and file: Many teachers depend upon their union officials to negotiate on their behalf, and are left high and dry while…
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