Archive for December 2012

Stan Greer, Program Director for the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, reflects on Dr. Charles Baird’s view of Right To Work Laws. Baird’s background both as a teacher and an economist, is extensive, and his treatment of the root of monopoly bargaining as the root of compulsory unionism, both in education and in other…

CEAFU Key Leader Larry Sand sets President Obama and others straight, dispelling one of many union myths about the new Right To Work Law in Michigan. Monopoly, or as union officials call it, “collective bargaining,” is the root of compulsory unionism, allowing as few as half of the members in a school district to determine the fate…

A Missouri school board sanctions union officials to use so-called “official time,” paid leave from their teaching position to conduct official union business. That means taxpayers are footing the bill for union officials while they conduct union business, a privelege not granted to other groups, including teachers who may wish to serve as legislators. Mike…

James Marshall Crotty, Forbes magazine, makes an interesting observation:    Because of the alleged audacity of passing a right-to-work law during the lame-duck session of the Michigan legislature, virulent — and occasionally violent – protests at the state Capitol in Lansing are drawing national media attention. However, this Forbes education contributor wonders: once all the hullabaloo…