National Right To Work

05/28/2026

Looks like pigs can fly after all. Former chief legal counsel to Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer just penned a critique of public-sector unionism in the left-leaning pages of The Atlantic.

It’s almost as if liberals are rediscovering the truth expressed by Franklin D. Roosevelt back in 1937: “All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”

That’s good news, even if it took the recent costly LIRR strike to wake some of them up to the reality that union representation in the public sector lacks the economic and market guardrails that govern labor unions in the private sector (can you say “bloated pensions and unfunded liabilities”?).

Another key point missing from the piece is the political reality underlying all government monopoly bargaining schemes: the union representatives negotiating with government officials are often the very same union bosses those officials rely on to help secure their reelection campaigns.

They don’t always work in the public interest.

05/28/2026

“Passing the trash.” That’s the term for quietly shuffling accused teachers into new classrooms instead of firing them.

According to the New York Post, union contracts pushed by UTLA make it incredibly difficult to remove sexual predators while parents are kept in the dark.

Shockingly, the American Federation of Teachers -- which includes UTLA as an affiliate -- has opposed mandatory reporting requirements for child sexual abuse allegations involving teachers. AFT boss Randi Weingarten even claimed mandatory reporting can “accidentally catalyze harm.”

Translation: the system protects predators first and kids last.

Basically, that's par for the course. As former AFT president Al Shanker once said: “When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.”

LA teachers union representative Glenn Sacks appears to believe (“Teachers deserve presumption of innocence,” May 13) that he has all the answers for the ongoing problem of child sexual…

05/27/2026

Chicago Teachers Union bosses already force teachers to fork over roughly $1,200 a year in dues. Now they want ANOTHER $800 per teacher . . . not to improve classrooms, but to bankroll even more far-left political activism.

Teachers are finally revolting against being treated like an ATM for union bosses’ radical agenda. Turns out a lot of educators would rather spend that additional $800 on their own families than subsidize more “progressive” political crusades.

This is what government unionism really looks like: less about education, more about power, politics, and control.

And thanks to the Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME decision protecting public employees from forced union dues, Chicago teachers also have the option during August to resign from the CTU entirely and pay $0 in union dues.

Teachers reject the CTU’s dues increase for progressive priorities.

05/22/2026

The manufacturing miracle the Big Labor bosses -- and their lackeys in Congress and the media -- don’t want you to know about:

For decades, union apologists claimed America lost manufacturing because companies “abandoned” American workers. But the auto industry tells a very different story.

When foreign automakers came to the U.S., they didn’t flee America -- they fled compulsory unionism.

Once Right to Work laws spread across the South, companies suddenly had a choice. And one after another, they chose freedom over the UAW’s rigid work rules, endless grievance procedures, and costly union red tape.

Toyota -- Kentucky.

BMW -- South Carolina.

Mercedes-Benz -- Alabama.

Volkswagen -- Tennessee.

Every major investment landed in a Right to Work state.

These companies weren’t afraid of American workers. Their Southern plants became some of the most productive and competitive auto factories in the world, with good-paying jobs and growing communities.

What they avoided were union contracts that make innovation, restructuring, and adopting new technology painfully expensive and bureaucratic.

The Rust Belt didn’t decline because Americans forgot how to build things. It declined because Big Labor made manufacturing economically unsustainable.

That’s the part union bosses never want to admit.

05/22/2026

Looks like the two union boss wolves were running the hen house.

According to explosive federal court testimony, former Boilermakers union bosses Newton Jones and William Creeden were allegedly pulling down nearly HALF A MILLION DOLLARS EACH for “no-show” jobs at the so-called “Bank of Labor” -- yes, that’s really the name of the bank.

The testimony claims these union kingpins rarely even showed up at the office, yet somehow logged full-time hours while also collecting lavish salaries, board fees, retirement benefits, luxury travel, private hunting trips, and even attempted $1.5 MILLION “golden parachutes.”

In more than the usual dose of irony, the “Bank of Labor” claims as its motto “Born of Integrity,” and its mission is to “‘Live the Code’ of the North American labor movement.”

If this is what the “Code” of the North American labor movement looks like, no wonder union bosses worked so hard to keep the books closed and their forced-dues money flowing.

The Bank of Labor president testified about questionable expenses and salaries of two Boilermakers officials who held high-paying bank jobs along with their union jobs.

05/22/2026

Teamster boss Sean O’Brien played the Trump administration like a fiddle. He pushed for a Labor Secretary with a long record of backing forced unionism, got exactly what he wanted, and now is washing his hands of the disaster while the media feasts on the chaos.

The bigger mistake was giving a Right to Work-hating Teamsters boss a seat at the table in the first place. Trump’s base overwhelmingly supports employees’ freedom to choose whether to join a union. The White House should cut ties with O’Brien immediately and get back to defending Right to Work and individual worker freedom.

In 2024, International Brotherhood of Teamsters union bosses conducted internal polling of their rank-and-file members. It showed roughly 60 percent support for Republican presidential nominee Dona…

05/21/2026

New York commuters got stranded while union bosses lived like kings.

According to federal filings, the same unions that paralyzed the Long Island Rail Road commute spent more than $3.2 MILLION on luxury hotels, casinos, high-end dining, and lavish travel. Nothing says “solidarity” like Caesars Palace suites and steakhouse tabs (when was the last time you dropped $20,000 at Peter Luger Steak House) all financed by workers’ forced union dues.

Union bosses always demand “shared sacrifice,” but somehow the sacrifice is never coming from the limousine class running the unions.

LIRR strike union leaders spent over $3 million on luxury lodging and dining in 2025 while arguing workers couldn't make ends meet, records show.

05/20/2026

The Rust Belt keeps getting rustier, yet the go-to excuse for manufacturing’s decades of decline is “CHINAAAH.”

The reality? Manufacturers aren’t fleeing America or even sinking under Trump’s tariff wars; they’re fleeing bloated union contracts, counterproductive work rules, and Big Labor bosses who still think it’s 1975.

If compulsory unionism were the key to industrial success, Detroit and other industrial Midwest cities would be booming instead of trapped in generational stagnation and decay. But the numbers don’t lie: Manufacturing grows fastest where union membership is voluntary, not forced as a condition of employment.

Manufacturers are not fleeing the United States. They are fleeing union contracts.

05/19/2026

One of the nation’s top teachers union bosses, that self-styled “protector of democracy,” Randi Weingarten, reportedly diverted more than $1.4 million in union resources to help produce a self-promoting political “manifesto” book -- all while hardworking teachers keep paying dues expecting workplace representation, not bankrolls for vanity projects and personal branding campaigns.

Teachers deserve real representation, not union kingpins treating members’ dues money like their own personal PR slush fund. Thankfully, under the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s Supreme Court victory in Janus, public employees have the right to vote with their feet and stop funding this kind of narcissistic union boss excess.

American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten tapped hundreds of thousands in union resources to help write her controversial book — working with a team that raked in more than $1.4 m…

05/18/2026

Virginia union bosses are in full meltdown mode after Gov. Spanberger vetoed the collective bargaining bill they arrogantly thought was guaranteed to become law.

Big Labor tried to corral ALL Virginia government workers under union monopoly control, despite representing only about 16% of the state workforce. That means 84% of public employees chose NOT to join a union and don’t want some union boss speaking for them or dictating how they do their jobs.

Union bosses claim workers need a “seat at the table,” but it was Big Labor trying to steal that seat from independent public employees in the first place.

Despite all of Big Labor’s backroom lobbying and political pressure, grassroots Right to Work supporters fought back hard, bombarding the Governor’s office with calls, emails, and messages opposing this dangerous expansion of government union power, and the National Right to Work Committee helped organize Board of Supervisors resolutions across the Commonwealth warning against forced collective bargaining schemes that would drive up taxes and hand more power to union bosses.

Big Labor thought Virginia workers belonged to them. Freedom-loving Virginians reminded them otherwise.

The proposal, backed by the Virginia Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and various labor groups, would expand on a 2020 law that permits local government employees in Virginia to opt-in to collective bargaining if their localities allow it. Some Virginia counties and cities have allowed p...