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    Op-ed Research ● Employee Rights Act ERA Labor PRO Act

    Commentary: One proposal to modernize labor laws would benefit women; another could set them back decades

    May 5, 2022 // The PRO Act seeks to regress to the 1950s workplace that denied workers the flexibility needed to balance work/life demands. The ERA would preserve the gains women have made and provide important rights of autonomy, privacy, and opportunity for women and men alike.

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    LAWSUIT ALLEGES TEAMSTERS REFUSE TO ACCEPT PACKAGES CONTAINING MEMBERSHIP CANCELLATIONS

    April 22, 2022 // But a federal lawsuit and request for a preliminary injunction filed on April 20 allege three different Washington Teamsters’ locals conspired to deny workers by the crudest of measures — brazen refusal to accept mail.

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    National Right to Work Foundation Defends Michigan Right to Work Law Against Union Boss Forced Fee Scheme

    March 31, 2022 // National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys filed an amicus brief in the Technical, Professional and Officeworkers Association of Michigan (TPOAM) v. Daniel Lee Renner case currently before the Michigan Supreme Court. In the case, Saginaw County employee Daniel Renner is contesting a union scheme designed to eliminate the Michigan Right to Work law’s protection against forcing employees to pay dues or fees as a condition of employment.

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    High profile TN Republicans back ‘Right to Work’ constitutional amendment which already is state law

    March 14, 2022 // “We think ‘Right to Work’ is one of the reasons our economy has been strong, as a state, up there with lacking a state income tax, it’s one of the biggest things that employers look at when relocating, when investing and expanding,” said Justin Owens, executive committee member for ‘TN Right 2 Work’.

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    Illinois: AMENDMENT 1 WOULD CEMENT STRIKES AS GO-TO WEAPON FOR CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION

    March 10, 2022 // The Chicago Teachers Union has gone on strike five times and walked out on students at least three other times since it got the right to strike in 1984. Gaining greater power through Amendment 1 would embolden militant union tactics.

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    Why Pennsylvania Needs Wisconsin-Style Government Union Reform

    February 24, 2022 // Government union executives use this power to trap government employees in unions, deny them alternative representation, and lobby against fiscal and educational reforms needed to make Pennsylvania more prosperous.

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    Janus hasn’t stopped unions from wielding power over school closures

    January 25, 2022 // Pandemic-induced school closures underscored the conflict of interest between teacher unions and students. Strong union districts had less in-person instruction, which hit minority communities in urban centers especially hard. The power to determine the mode of instruction belies the notion that the U.S. Supreme Court put public-sector unions on a road to extinction with its 2018 decision in Janus v. AFSCME.

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