All Posts Tagged With: "union dues"
Worker Freedom in Peril
The Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) recently published its 2007 Index of Worker Freedom (IWF).The index ranks each of the 50 states on the basis of ten variables that affect the freedom of workers. “Freedom” is defined properly as the absence of interferences with individual worker choices. After explaining the ten variables used and identifying [...]
1Oct2008 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reply to a Labor Priest
In his 1981 encyclical letter, Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II declared that workers have “the right of association, that is to form associations for the purpose of defending the vital interests of those employed in the various professions. These associations are called labor or trade unions” (§20). He went on to say that unions [...]
1Sep2001 | Charles W. Baird | 3 comments | ContinuedShameless in California
A year ago October the California legislature and Governor Gray Davis enacted SB645, which empowers unions with monopoly bargaining privileges at California State University and the University of California to extract monthly fees from the paychecks of faculty and staff who want to remain union-free. Every Democrat and two Republicans in the legislature voted in [...]
1Nov2000 | Charles W. Baird | 1 comment | ContinuedAn Open Letter to the California Legislature
As a student of public choice theory, I understand why you support SB 1241, a mandatory agency-shop bill for California State University (CSU) faculty. After all, in the words of Ambrose Bierce, “politics is a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” The California Faculty Association (CFA) supports you in the political marketplace, [...]
1Aug1999 | Charles W. Baird | 3 comments | ContinuedPaycheck Protection in California: What Went Wrong?
Proposition 226, which was on the primary ballot in California last June, would have required unions to get annual written permission from workers before spending their dues and agency fees on politics. The proposition lost 53 to 47 percent. In January, just after the initiative qualified for the ballot, polls indicated that over 70 percent [...]
1Nov1998 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Freedom Not to Pay for Other People’s Politics
Samuel Gompers, the founder of the modern American labor union movement, once wrote, “there may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. . . . It is his legal right and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal [...]
1May1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 2 comments | ContinuedClosing Special Interest Government
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The federal government was originally conceived as an institution with limited, enumerated powers. However, over time interest groups and politicians cooperated in [...]
1Nov1997 | Doug Bandow | 2 comments | Continued-
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