Worker Advocate Testifies Before Congress on Need to Defend Employees Against Increasingly Coercive Union Tactics
Testimony: Biden Labor Board undermining rights of workers opposed to union affiliation, censoring speech critical of unions
Read MoreJanus Supreme Court Decision Protects UC Graduate Students’ Right to Stop Dues Payments
UC graduate students also have a First Amendment right to cut off dues deductions to the UAW as per the Foundation-won Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision
Read MorePuerto Rico Union Bosses Try to Dodge Consequences of Janus Lawsuit
Cruz argues in his suit that various provisions of the Puerto Rico Labor Relations Act, which UIA union bosses relied upon to take money from his paycheck, violate the First Amendment.
Read MoreRight to Work Foundation Brief: 2018 Janus Decision Means Union “Release Time” Violates AZ Constitution’s Gift Clause
Brief supports challenge pending at Arizona Supreme Court against Phoenix’s scheme to subsidize inherently political AFSCME union activities with tax dollars
Read MoreAfter Janus, Foundation Continues Fight to Expand Freedom for Public Employees
Up until 2018, union bosses had the power to force millions of government workers to pay union dues or fees just to keep their jobs…
Read MoreWorker Who Criticized Union Official Defeats Attempt to Slap Him with Restraining Order
Puerto Rican Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) worker also challenged unconstitutional Puerto Rico laws mandating UIA union membership and dues payment
Read MoreRight to Work Expansion Hitting Union Coffers
But Public Union Bosses Still Inflicting Massive Harm on U.S.A. Until just over five years ago, the overwhelming majority of America’s nearly seven million unionized state and local public employees still resided in jurisdictions where they had no Right to Work protections. But on June 27, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down what is…
Read MoreNotorious Police Union Boss Goes to Prison
Ed Mullins Admits to Stealing $600,000 From Big Apple’s Finest On August 4, Big Labor boss Ed Mullins, who from 2002 to 2021 reigned as chief of New York City’s powerful Sergeants Benevolent Association union (SBA), became the latest in a long line of union officials to be sentenced to prison for stealing dues money…
Read MoreFoundation Files SCOTUS Brief Defending Alaska’s Protections Against Forced Union Dues
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Alaska v. Alaska State Employees Association. The brief supports the State of Alaska’s attempt to safeguard public sector workers’ First Amendment right to refrain from paying dues to a union they disapprove of. This right was…
Read MoreFoundation Op-Ed: ‘Public Employees Never Waived Their 1st Amendment Rights’
The State of Alaska seeks protect the First Amendment rights of public employees under the Foundation-won 2018 Janus v. AFSCME decision…
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