Posted on Oct 11, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Two brave Safeway employees in Montana, aided by the National Right To Work Legald Defense Foundation, have won a settlement from United Food and Commercial Workers officials who had been stonewalling the pair on preventing the union from using their money on politics. The AP reports: Among other things, the settlement announced Wednesday requires the […]
Posted on Jun 20, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao weighs in against the horrifically misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act” in today’s Wall Street Journal. She writes: It is incredible that interest groups who say they are advocates for workers are striving to end workers’ opportunity to have private union elections. Coincidentally, or not, unionization has shrunk in the past […]
Posted on Mar 28, 2007 by Jon Berry
Other than school vouchers, there is little that draws down the wrath of teachers unions more than charter schools. There’s no surprise here: charter schools are rarely unionized, meaning that school leaders typically have plenty of power to hire, fire, and reassign their teaching staff, administrative freedoms recently applauded by The Wall Street Journal for […]
