Employee Rights Act Grabs Attention
The Employee Rights Act (ERA), a proposed piece of federal legislation that gives a host of individual rights to workers,…
Labor’s Nominees Confirmed to National Labor Relations Board
On Tuesday, July 31, the Senate voted to confirm President Obama’s five nominations to the National Labor Relations Board. The…
Worker Centers No Longer Hidden in Obscurity
As we mentioned in a recent article and our full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, worker centers can no longer hide in…
The Nuclear Option is Bad…Good…Okay Sometimes…
NLRB nominations are only a problem when Republicans nominate them. Pro-labor, anti-labor, it doesn’t matter; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid…
Newsflash: Benefits of Union Membership Declining by the Year
Unions have always turned to the same trump card when trying to convince employees to unionize: Unions members make more…
Hearings on Labor Nominee Perez Start
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee recently began its hearings on Thomas Perez’s nomination to be Secretary of…
Twenty-Month Stoppage Yields Workers Hardship but Little Benefit
In summer 2011, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) union — the same union whose strike killed…
Michigan Employees Now Have Right to Work
Yesterday, Michigan’s right-to-work law, which bans forced dues arrangements that lock non-members into funding a union they aren’t part of,…
Ex-Union Members Know Why Unions Are Declining
According to the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the proportion of private-sector employees in unions has tumbled to a…
Michigan Unions’ All-Out Assault on Employee Rights
After a union-pushed proposal to forbid such a measure failed in a referendum, Michigan recently passed a right-to-work law granting…