The U.S. Supreme Court has decided it will take up a case that could prove to be a game-changing decision for government worker labor unions. If the court rules against…
Like most policy debates, the one on minimum wages is framed by many as a simple issue of growing vs. shrinking the economy, inflating vs deflating wages, and creating vs.
Teacher absenteeism in schools has turned into a chronic plague of hypocrisy: schools insist students be present, but can’t seem to get their faculty to do the same. A recent…
Business isn’t good for the United Auto Workers (UAW). The automobile factory workers’ union failed to unionize Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2014, and the effort to unionize Nissan factory…
Healthcare workers in the Services Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 721 in Riverside County, California walked off the job to protest last week, forcing the county to spend $1.5…
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a five-person body responsible for determining rules governing employer-worker relationships, could play a critical role in the future of workers freedom in America. Under…
A new report by the Hoover Institution entitled “Hidden Debt, Hidden Deficits” finds that the majority of governments in the United States massively underreport the unfunded liabilities in their…
New York’s so-called “rubber rooms”—reassignment centers where hundreds of teachers in need of academic discipline are sent to do virtually no work—are a running joke in the city. Teachers in…
The ongoing war between the Freedom Foundation, a free market think tank, and entrenched labor unions in Washington state is a snapshot of the greater war for workers First Amendment rights.
Thanks to a Washington, D.C., firm, activists tied to the AFL-CIO, a major public employees union, have gathered nearly 300,000 signatures supporting a ballot measure that would delay Right to Work…