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Recent polls show that organized labor is not working for many Americans.
When unionized businesses looked ahead to a world with Obama appointees administering labor laws, they decided to close up shop.
The newly constituted National Labor Relations Board may change several important labor-law rules through litigation, but whether it will be able to impose key provisions of the Employee Free Choice Act remains to be seen.
Pollfound overwhelming support for the view that a labor union should have to get permission from a member before using some of his or her dues for political campaign donations.
A growing body of work--both theoretical and empirical--has emphasized thatunionization may be better understood as a tax on capital rather than a tax on labor. Underthis "new" view, unionization unambiguously lowers investment. Using data on unioncertification elections, we estimate the impact of unionization on firms' investment behavior.
A new CBO study shows that federal-government employees receive significantly higher compensation than private-sector workers with the same levels of education and experience. It confirms many of the findings of a 2011 study written by Andrew Biggs and Jason Richwine and helps rebut union claims that federal workers are underpaid.
Much has been said and written about the underhanded attempt by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to enjoin, as an "unfair labor practice,"Boeing's decision to locate a big production facility in right-to-work South Carolina.
Obama's partiality to unions is apparently rooted in a conviction that we would be better off if every employee were represented by a union.The marketplace says otherwise.




