In a stunning rout, autoworkers in Tennessee defeated a unionization push from the UAW. The heavily funded union bosses tried every trick in the book to scare workers into joining the union, but it wasn’t enough. It turns out America’s workers value their freedom. The National Right to Work Committee reports: Throughout their latest campaign, […]

Senator Bernie Sanders would have you believe he is a champion of workers’ rights, but it turns out that’s a big lie. The only thing Sanders seems interested in is the neverending flow of union political donations. Sanders has actually begun targeting workers’ rights as part of his campaign, with a new barrage aimed at […]

In a blatant attack on the freedom of American workers, Democratic presidential primary candidates are lining up to steal their money and give it directly to some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors. These Democrats want to end Right to Work laws, which protect Americans’ freedom to work without interference from union bosses who want […]

Sen. Kamala Harris, who would very much like to be America’s next president, told union members recently that she would issue an executive order banning Right to Work laws. It is unlikely the Supreme Court would ever find such an executive order constitutional, but even the idea of changing the law in 27 states to […]

After the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME, union members were supposed to be allowed to leave if they wanted. That’s not how it worked out though. In The Wall Street Journal, Charles Mitchell reports that unions have ways of making members stay. It’s very much a Hotel California, you can check out, but […]

When politicians play games to lure companies to their state, it is oftentimes with tax breaks using money they don’t have, as was the case with New York’s tax breaks to Amazon. Amazon was going to pay much more in taxes than they received in tax breaks—by a lot—it was basically New York Prime. The […]

States with high taxes, despite taking more of their citizens’ money, tend to have poorer infrastructure and services. So it’s no surprise that citizens who live in those states also have a greater desire to leave. Steven Malanga explains this phenomenon in The Wall Street Journal, and suggests that labor laws have a lot to […]

Many states are hostage to the powerful public sector unions they employ. These unions are the largest, most organized group of voters in many forced-union states. They wield their massive power to lobby for higher wages. Paying those wages demands higher taxation, which can cripple private industry in the states. State governments that have been […]

In his State of the Union speech on February 5, President Trump told Americans that “America will never be a socialist country.” Working hard to change that is Virginia State House delegate Lee Carter, a self described democratic socialist, who is attempting to eliminate the state’s protections for workers. Carter wants to repeal Virginia’s Right to Work laws, […]