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CEI Joins Coalition to Support Right-to-Work Protections in Missouri

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/29/2015

No individual should be forced to financially support an organization with which they disagree or risk penalty. However, in Missouri and 24 other states, private-sector…

Labor and Employment

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Missouri Tax Dollars Finance Union Political Activity

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/29/2015

As Thomas Jefferson wrote, the constitution created a "wall of separation between church and state." An equally impenetrable wall of separation should be erected to…

Labor and Employment

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Time to Enforce Texas Constitution’s Bar on Taxpayer Subsidies to Private Parties

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/24/2015

Use of taxpayer funds should be reserved for purely public purposes, not the private benefit of an individual, corporation, or association. Yet, Texas public employee…

Labor and Employment

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After 80 Years, Labor Law Needs Reform

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/17/2015

Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) recently penned an op-ed that celebrates the 80th anniversary of the National Labor Relations Act and praises the work of the…

Labor and Employment

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Largest Union Decertification Effort in Railway Labor Act History Underway at Allegiant Air

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/06/2015

Last week, Allegiant Air flight attendants have filed with the National Mediation Board to decertify the Transport Workers Union. If successful, it would be largest…

Labor and Employment

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Texas: Austin and San Antonio Release Time Records

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/06/2015

The San Antonio Fire Department (SAFD) granted 4,238 release time hours in fiscal year 2012, at a cost to taxpayers $135,786. In FY 2013, release…

Labor and Employment

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Government Union Privilege Highlights Necessity to End Forced Union Dues in Public Sector

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 07/01/2015

Every worker should be able to get and keep a job without being forced to pay union dues. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it…

Labor and Employment

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U.S. Supreme Court to Take on Government Union Power

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/30/2015

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court granted cert to a case that could give all public employees right-to-work protections. If SCOTUS rules in favor of the…

Labor and Employment

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California Department of Water and Power Trusts Used as Union Slush Fund

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/24/2015

Public resources should be used to promote public purposes, meaning tax dollars should not go toward efforts that exclusively financially assist a private entity.

Labor and Employment

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Was Missouri Governor Jay Nixon’s Right-to-Work Veto Influenced by UAW Campaign Contributions?

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/23/2015

On June 4, Governor of Missouri Jay Nixon vetoed right-to-work legislation, which would end forced union dues payments, and was joined by UAW Local 249…

Labor and Employment

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Only One Option to Rein in Politicized NLRB: Eliminate Appropriations

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/19/2015

In a recent Forbes article my colleague Wayne Crews explains that "federal regulation matters more than spending." On the flip side, one of the only…

Labor and Employment

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California Labor Commission Rules Uber Drivers Are Employees

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/18/2015

A recent ruling by the California Labor Commission found that an Uber driver is an employee, not independent contractor as the ridesharing company argues. The…

Labor and Employment

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Union Deauthorization Provides Workers Weapon to Combat Pro-Union NLRB Actions

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/15/2015

Nearly all action to come out of the Obama administration's National Labor Relations Board has sought to ease union organizing campaigns in order to funnel…

Labor and Employment

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Union Official Time Breeds Corruption

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/10/2015

The Office of Labor-Management Standards of the Department of Labor conducts criminal investigations to unearth union wrongdoing that violates the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.

Labor and Employment

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NLRB Approves of Vulgar Union Gear at Workplace

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/05/2015

Under the Obama administration, the National Labor Relations Board has gone to great lengths to expand employee Section 7 rights to the point of absurdity.

Labor and Employment

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NLRB’s End Run Around Right to Work Laws

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/04/2015

Yesterday, the House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing entitled, "Compulsory Unionism Through Grievance Fees: The NLRB’s Assault on Right to Work," which examined…

Labor and Employment

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Texas Court Upholds NLRB Ambush Election

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/02/2015

On June 1, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas upheld the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) ambush election, which dramatically alters…

Labor and Employment

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Union Bosses Lobby for Exemption from $15 LA Minimum Wage

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/27/2015

As I reported in yesterday, Big Labor spent a lot of money and resources supporting the Los Angeles' $15 minimum wage.

Labor and Employment

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Big Labor Money Behind Los Angeles Minimum Wage Hike

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/26/2015

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 in favor of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2020.

Labor and Employment

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Defund the Partisan NLRB

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/20/2015

One of the primary objectives of the National Labor Relations Act is to remedy the perceived "inequality of bargaining power" between employees and employers. However,…

Labor and Employment

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Missouri House and Senate Pass Right to Work

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/14/2015

On May 12, Missouri took a great leap forward toward becoming the 26th right to work (RTW) state. First, the State Senate passed the bill…

Labor and Employment

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Right to Work is Right for Missouri

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/14/2015

On May 12, Missouri took a great leap forward toward becoming the 26th right to work (RTW) state. First, the State Senate passed the bill…

Labor and Employment

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Government Union Collective Bargaining Needs Sunlight

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/12/2015

Taxpayers should have a right to know how tax dollars are spent. Unfortunately, one of state and local governments' largest expenditures, public union contracts, mostly…

Labor and Employment

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Congress Tables Ambush Election Resolution of Disapproval

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/11/2015

The Competitive Enterprise Institute planned on scoring the Senate’s veto override vote on S.J. Res. 8, a Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval to void…

Labor and Employment

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Congress Gives Up Fight against NLRB Ambush Election Rule

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/08/2015

The Competitive Enterprise Institute planned on scoring the Senate’s veto override vote on S.J. Res. 8, a Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval to void…

Labor and Employment

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Republicans Vote in Favor of Union Giveaways

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/05/2015

Last week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute sent out a Key Vote alert on two amendments. Both were designed to save taxpayers money by ending policies…

Labor and Employment

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SEIU Support for Minimum Wage Hikes Based on Self-Interest

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/14/2015

Why is the Service Employees International Union funneling $15 million into the Fight for 15 campaign when the average private-sector union member makes $22 an…

Labor and Employment

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SEIU Support for Minimum Wage Hikes Based on Self-Interest

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/13/2015

Why is the Service Employees International Union funneling $15 million into the Fight for 15 campaign when the average private-sector union member makes $22 an hour and…

Labor and Employment

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Washington Teachers’ Union Boss Compensation Not Unusual

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 04/06/2015

A recent article in the Yakima Herald-Republic describes a union subsidy, which pays 75 percent of the teachers' union president's salary, as "unusual." Unfortunately, that…

Labor and Employment

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NLRB Holds Training at Union Office and Top Lawyer Forgets Details of Ambush Election Rule

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 03/31/2015

Congress has held numerous hearings and passed a resolution of disapproval of the National Labor Relations Board regulation known as the "ambush election" rule due…

Labor and Employment

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