Strikes, Union Activity

Carpentersville firefighters collected enough signatures for election whether to boot SEIU, but union officials are now attempting to block the vote Chicago, IL (January 10, 2022) – With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, Village of Carpentersville firefighters are defending their right to remove unpopular Service Employees International Union (SEIU) officials…

If you’re a teacher, your collective bargaining might be negatively impacting you and your students more than you think. Collective bargaining can create what is known as “Wage Compression,” where teacher that may not get paid as well get an extra bump. That may sound like a positive, but in order to make that happen, the wages of…

National Right to Work Committee and Foundation president Mark Mix recently wrote a piece for The Roanoke Times, where he discusses how Terry McAuliffe ruined his own chances of winning the Virginia Election. For starters, McAuliffe changed his mind on a variety of policies, including Right to Work: McAuliffe’s campaign was likely doomed the moment…

Settlement requires union officials to refund all unconstitutionally taken money Irvine, CA (November 17, 2021) – University of California Irvine lab assistant Amber Walker has won a settlement forcing University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) union officials at her workplace to stop illegally taking dues money from her paycheck. The victory comes after Walker sought free…

Thank you for signing up for the Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism CEAFU2022 Conference. Here is the link to the conference: CEAFU2022 https://myjanusrights.org/2021/12/01/thanks-for-signing-up-for-ceafu2022/ You Are Registered for CEAFU2022 If you were redirected to this page, you have been successfully registered for CEAFU2022! DATE: Friday, March 4th 2022 TIME: Noon-3PM (Eastern) CEAFU2022 is a free online conference provided…

Huge Federal Cash Infusion Isn’t Making Schools Safer or Better Eight months ago, union bosses like American Federation of Teachers (AFT/AFL-CIO) chief Randi Weingarten and National Education Association (NEA) bigwig Becky Pringle exulted as Congress rubber-stamped and President Joe Biden approved a $200 billion payout to overwhelmingly unionized government schools. The principal public pretext for this…

Petitions from public servants challenge union boss-created “escape periods” that limit right to cut off dues deductions to just a few days each year Washington, DC (October 25, 2021) – National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys today filed petitions asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear several cases from rank-and-file government employees across…

WASHINGTON, DC – In July, sixteen attorneys general threw the support of their states behind Chicago Public Schools educators Ifeoma Nkemdi and Joanne Troesch, who are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case defending their First Amendment right to cut off union financial support as recognized in the Foundation-won Janus v. AFSCME decision. In an amicus…

Ominous Signs That NEA, AFT Dons Aren’t Done Exploiting COVID-19 After they successfully shook down federal taxpayers for an extraordinary $200 billion payout to overwhelmingly unionized government schools early this year, teacher union bosses might have been expected to decide they had gotten everything they could out of the COVID-19 crisis. But as the new…

Two lawsuits ask Court to eliminate ‘escape period’ schemes that restrict when workers can cut off union dues as violative of Court’s Janus precedent Washington, DC (October 14, 2021) – Two class action lawsuits challenging “escape period” schemes imposed by union officials on public sector employees are fully briefed at the U.S. Supreme Court. The lawsuits were brought…