BIG LABOR VS. RIGHT TO WORK LAWS: The Battle Continues.

USA Today (Magazine) | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

Although the Supreme Court has established a number of precedents protecting the rights of workers, organized labor persists in using its political power to evade and defy those rulings to the fullest extent it can.

TWENTY YEARS AGO, I could shock an audience by saying that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) tramples, rather than protects, the rights of America's working people. Such an opinion was pure heresy. Today, thanks to the efforts of the National Right to Work Committee, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, and many journalists and ...

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