As Governor Jay Nixon’s veto-filled term comes to an end this November, right-to-work advocates have a chance to finally liberate Missouri workers from Big Labor.

Nixon and his union buddies cling to a view of labor that is too outdated for a state that has been embracing the new economy. Missouri’s private sector is welcoming traditionally non-unionized industries and right-to-work is gaining popularity.

On May 7, 2016, Paige Halper, the Athena Worker Freedom Fellow at the Center for Worker Freedom, was published in American Thinker.  Halper’s piece, Unions and Planned Parenthood: A Love Story, is an excerpt of a larger research project that uncovered the relationship between Big Labor and Planned Parenthood. 

Halper notes:

Whether it is personal or through personnel, Planned Parenthood advances union-friendly legislation and ideas and in return, unions give generously to their friends in pink. 

An excerpt of this piece was published in American Thinker on May 6, 2016, under the title, "Unions and Planned Parenthood: A Love Story."  To read the article, click here.

Her husband easily swept West Virginia in both 1992 and 1996. When she was on the ballot during the Democratic presidential primary in 2008, she beat then-Senator Obama by 41 percentage points.

Blood and Boots: A History of Union Violence in America, Part II

Over 35,000 Verizon workers are now in their fourth week of striking.

Union leadership at the Communication Workers of America (CWA) is upset about alleged job security, low wages and expensive healthcare for the company’s landline phone business and FiOS service workers.

When unions and government collude, workers and consumers lose

I met Melony Armstrong at the Institute for Justice (IJ) National Economic Liberty Forum welcome dinner on April 27, 2016.  Over a plate of chimichurri steak and roasted potatoes, I had no idea that within the next 24 hours, I would hear her inspirational story. 

"April 3, 1941, Day two of the first United Auto Workers strike at the Ford Motor Co. factory in Detroit

A Conflict of Interest in the National Labor Relation Board’s Philadelphia Office

The Philadelphia I grew up in is a die-hard sports city. 

Female-only ride-share service challenges skeptics

The new start-up company, SafeHer (formerly Chariot for Women), has been nicknamed “Uber for Women” because it offers ride-sharing services through a simple phone app.  What makes SafeHer different though, is that the service is exclusively for – and provided by – women. 

In a follow-up piece to a report that highlighted the Center for Worker Freedom’s Indicator of Labor Liberty, Kevin Mooney of the Daily Signal discusses new challenges and victories in the right-to-work movement.  The piece, Illinois Town Among New Fronts on Nation’s Right-to-Work Map as Supreme Court Deadlocks, was published on April 1, 2016.