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    News Article Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor Unionization Unions

    Two states, two visions for the future of labor “Right-to-work” is on the ballot.

    October 3, 2022 // Two economic papers published in the last year also reached different conclusions about the consequences of right-to-work laws. The first found right-to-work laws associated with increased manufacturing employment, increased employment, and greater upward mobility. The second found that right-to-work laws lower wages and unionization rates.

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    Op-ed / Commentary ● Unionization

    Opinion: States should protect caregivers’ Medicaid funds from union skims

    June 27, 2022 // Yet, while a number of states including Michigan have taken action to prohibit the dues skim, a May rule by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reversed a Trump administration effort to stop the skim nationally. A separate 9th Circuit decision last week also continues to allow unions to trap home care providers into paying them. Robert and Patricia Haynes, cerebral palsy, Gov. Rick Snyder, Harris v. Quinn, Cindy Ochoa, most pro-union president ever,

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    News Article Research ● Labor Unions

    Democratic Party weighs banning its consultants from anti-union activity

    April 19, 2022 // POLITICO has obtained a draft of a contract addendum that would forbid Democratic-aligned consultants from participating in union-busting, aiding an employer in a labor dispute or lobbying against union-backed legislation.

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    Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor Unions

    Opinion: Time for a Law That Puts Workers, Not Unions, First

    March 25, 2022 // The Employee Rights Act of 2022, unlike Biden’s PRO Act, encourages innovation and job flexibility.

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    Op-ed / Commentary ● Unions

    Michigan Teachers’ Unions’ Desperate ‘Dark Money’ Fearmongering

    February 9, 2022 // The unions and their allies are running out of options to preserve the public-school monopoly and deny the state’s families educational choice.

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    News Article ● Labor

    ‘Doorknockers’ challenge to California gig-worker law goes before Ninth Circuit

    February 7, 2022 // Political canvassers and signature gatherers claim they should be treated as independent contractors, like salespeople and newspaper carriers.

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