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For decades, cold, hard data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have shown that states like New Jersey, Illinois and California are paying a high price for allowing dues-hungry union bosses to continue getting workers fired for refusal to bankroll their organizations.

Five years ago this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that government employers across the country may not cut deals with Big Labor officials to fire civil servants for refusing to pay dues or fees to a union they don’t want, and never asked for.

STAN GREER: Swathes Of K-12 Parents Are Dumping Schools Captured By Teachers Unions Stan Greer on June 16, 2023 Last month, education reporter Linda

In March 2020, a little more than three years ago, state and local politicians across America halted in-person classes for K-12 government schools with the purported aim of slowing the spread of the COVID-19 virus. When the school shutdowns began, few ordinary citizens had any idea how long they would last. It ultimately turned out that many school districts would remain closed until well into 2021. It’s been estimated that roughly half of America’s public schoolchildren lost a year or more ...

“We are witnessing a minor miracle” as “there will actually be some spending reductions as part of” the proposed debt ceiling deal, cheers Mick Mulvaney at The Hill.

In recent years, a growing number of activists and pundits who are normally allied with Big Labor have been publicly demanding that public policymakers take bold action to stop America’s powerful building-trades union bosses from wielding their special legal privileges to keep good construction job opportunities out of reach for African Americans.

Senate Bill 66 seeks to regulate independent schools and force them to operate under the same failed governance in which Vermont’s monopoly schools operate.

Because the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) empowers union bosses to represent workers who don’t want a union, Big Labor apologists contend, union bosses must also be legally empowered to force these captive workers to pay union dues or fees. Otherwise, the workers who wish to remain union-free will get a so-called “free ride.”

For years, American parents of K-12 school-aged children have been making it clear they are aware it’s a bad idea for politicians to hand government union bosses monopoly-bargaining power over

Lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Sean Perryman is one of a growing number of Democrat politicians to call for destruction of Virginia’s 73-year-old Right to Work law, which bans forced union membership,