By Fred Wszolek, Townhall.com
The National Employee Freedom Week (NEFW), which the Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI) strongly supports, is a nationwide campaign aimed at educating employees about their statutory and constitutional right to not be a union member.
Star Tribune
Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration has responded to a federal lawsuit seeking to block unionization of certain in-home day providers with a court filing saying opponents lack standing to sue.
By Mark Mix, The Washington Times
Last month, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law a bill that designates home-based child care and personal care providers, many of whom are self-employed business owners, as state workers solely for the purpose of forcing them into union ranks.
By Ed Ring, Cal Watchdog
California’s November 2012 statewide ballot included Proposition 32, the “Stop Special Interest Money Now” initiative. Among the provisions included in this campaign finance reform measure was the requirement that public sector unions obtain permission from each member prior to using a portion of their dues to support political campaigns.
By Andy Conlin, The Truth About Project Labor Agreements
Big Labor’s latest attempt to secure a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) mandate on a public construction project has opened some old wounds in the Columbus, Ohio, area.
By Anthony Riedel, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
A group of Minnesota home-based childcare providers have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new law that seeks to forcibly unionize the state’s home-based childcare providers.
By Marta H. Mossburg, The Baltimore Sun
Maryland’s Fair Share Act is to fair what Liberace is to understated.
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
A former Penn Service Line, Inc. truck driver/laborer has won a substantial federal settlement from a Pennsylvania-based construction company and a West Virginia union after the company and union violated his rights and illegally seized union dues from his paychecks for the union’s political action committee (PAC).
By Alicia Freese, VTDigger.org
Just five days after home-care workers officially gained the right to unionize, the two contenders are laying the groundwork for what’s going to be the state’s largest union election.
By Joe Kimball, minnpost.com
Gov. Mark Dayton, as expected, has signed the Child Care Collective Bargaining Act, which will allow child care providers who accept state subsidies to vote to join a union.