You shouldn’t have to join a union if you don’t want to. But that’s exactly what happens to teachers in states that don’t have right-to-work laws. A friend on mine who is a history teacher in non-right-to-work Boston, Massachusetts complains about the dues automatically deducted from his paycheck. He has stood up in meetings to […]
Will Public-Sector Employees Win the Right to Choose?
The oral arguments have been heard by the Supreme Court Justices in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The case pits public sector employees against their unions, which they have no choice but to join and pay dues to. Here The Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro breaks it down: The conventional wisdom is that Justice Scalia is the […]
Your Right-to-Work
The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The case centers around 10 teachers (Friedrichs et. al) challenging a state requirement that they pay dues to a union (California Teachers Association) that takes political positions teachers may disagree with. This case “would be a huge victory for workers’ rights, the First Amendment, […]
Davis Bacon Act—Keeping Jim Crow Alive
From Cato Briefing Papers, 18 January 1993: Davis-Bacon was designed explicitly to keep black construction workers from working on Depression-era public works projects. The act continues today to restrict the opportunities of black workers on federal and federally subsidized projects by favoring disproportionately white, unionized and skilled workers over disproportionately black, non-unionized and unskilled workers. […]
Boeing Union Bosses
Once again union leaders roll the dice hoping the NLRB will save them. The Wall Street Journal explains. Boeing’s eight-year contract offer included a 1% wage increase every other year starting in 2016 on top of annual cost-of-living increases. Pension accruals would be frozen, and traditional defined-benefit plans would be replaced with 401(k) accounts with […]