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Reminder: While Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy works to prevent unqualified foreign drivers from obtaining licenses to drive commercial trucks and buses, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is opposed to requiring proof of legal status for commercial driver's licenses, published a toolkit on bypassing restrictions, and sued over federal provisions that would mandate proof of legal status for CDL holders. youtu.be/HDgHr8KHOzw?si…

Randi “Gaslight” Weingarten wants you to believe your children’s falling test scores are the fault of "screens." Yep, that’s right. AFT boss Weingarten wants you to forget who was the loudest voice pushing to keep schools closed and millions of kids stuck in front of those very “screens” for over two years. The teachers' unions. Now that learning loss, declining test scores, and a student mental health crisis are impossible to ignore, Weingarten is looking for a scapegoat. But parents haven't forgotten who fought to keep classrooms closed while their children fell behind. Randi Weingarten doesn't get to blame the symptoms for the damage caused by the policy she championed. yahoo.com/news/politics/…

With friends like these . . . A handful of self-styled Republican “populists” are crawling into bed with union kingpins like Teamster boss Sean O’Brien, apparently convinced that parroting Big Labor talking points makes them champions of the “working man.” Now seven House Republicans have joined Democrats to push Josh Hawley’s deceptively named “Faster Labor Contracts Act.” Translation? More power for union bosses, more coercion for workers, and more muscle for the same Big Labor machine funding the radical Left. Even the Wall Street Journal blasted these “pro-union Republicans” as “rubber stamps for labor bosses who are allies of the Democratic Party.” The fact is, the majority of working men and women want freedom from union boss coercion -- not politicians selling them out to the same Big Labor bosses trying to control their workplace and their paychecks. thehill.com/homenews/house…

Josh Hawley’s misnamed “Faster Labor Contracts Act” isn’t about empowering workers -- it’s about stripping them of a voice in their own workplace. Under Hawley’s scheme, government-appointed arbitrators could impose “wages, benefits, scheduling, work rules, disciplinary systems, staffing, and other terms and conditions of employment” on employees who never agreed to them and can’t vote them down. That’s not empowering workers. That’s union boss coercion backed by federal bureaucrats who don’t know the workers, don’t answer to the workers, and certainly don’t speak for the workers. And yet a handful of Republican lawmakers are lining up to appease Big Labor bosses like Sean O’Brien, selling out the very workers they claim to represent. Real worker freedom means employees control their own workplace choices -- not union bosses and politicians cutting backroom deals to expand Big Labor’s power. thehill.com/opinion/congre…

Only in California could union bosses use environmental laws to protect pajama pants and Jeffrey Toobin-style Zoom calls. Unionized state employees are now claiming Gavin Newsom’s return-to-office policy violates the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because it “had not undergone the necessary environmental review.” You can’t make this stuff up . . . the same environmental movement that can stop housing projects, ban plastic straws and incandescent light bulbs, and probably keep little Johnny from having a lemonade stand is now being weaponized by the union representing state-employed legal workers to preserve COVID-era telework rules forever. California has officially become South Park. reason.com/2026/05/28/cal…

Looks like pigs can fly after all. Former chief legal counsel to Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer just penned a critique of public-sector unionism in the left-leaning pages of The Atlantic. It’s almost as if liberals are rediscovering the truth expressed by Franklin D. Roosevelt back in 1937: “All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.” That’s good news, even if it took the recent costly LIRR strike to wake some of them up to the reality that union representation in the public sector lacks the economic and market guardrails that govern labor unions in the private sector (can you say “bloated pensions and unfunded liabilities”?). Another key point missing from the piece is the political reality underlying all government monopoly bargaining schemes: the union representatives negotiating with government officials are often the very same union bosses those officials rely on to help secure their reelection campaigns. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

“Passing the trash.” That’s the term for quietly shuffling accused teachers into new classrooms instead of firing them. According to the New York Post, union contracts pushed by UTLA make it incredibly difficult to remove sexual predators while parents are kept in the dark. Shockingly, the American Federation of Teachers -- which includes UTLA as an affiliate -- has opposed mandatory reporting requirements for child sexual abuse allegations involving teachers. AFT boss Randi Weingarten even claimed mandatory reporting can “accidentally catalyze harm.” Translation: the system protects predators first and kids last. Basically, that's par for the course. As former AFT president Al Shanker once said: “When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.” nypost.com/2026/05/21/opi…

Chicago Teachers Union bosses already force teachers to fork over roughly $1,200 a year in dues. Now they want ANOTHER $800 per teacher . . . not to improve classrooms, but to bankroll even more far-left political activism. Teachers are finally revolting against being treated like an ATM for union bosses’ radical agenda. Turns out a lot of educators would rather spend that additional $800 on their own families than subsidize more “progressive” political crusades. This is what government unionism really looks like: less about education, more about power, politics, and control. And thanks to the Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME decision protecting public employees from forced union dues, Chicago teachers also have the option during August to resign from the CTU entirely and pay $0 in union dues. wsj.com/opinion/a-unio…

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The manufacturing miracle the Big Labor bosses -- and their lackeys in Congress and the media -- don’t want you to know about: For decades, union apologists claimed America lost manufacturing because companies “abandoned” American workers. But the auto industry tells a very different story. When foreign automakers came to the U.S., they didn’t flee America -- they fled compulsory unionism. Once Right to Work laws spread across the South, companies suddenly had a choice. And one after another, they chose freedom over the UAW’s rigid work rules, endless grievance procedures, and costly union red tape. Toyota -- Kentucky. BMW -- South Carolina. Mercedes-Benz -- Alabama. Volkswagen -- Tennessee. Every major investment landed in a Right to Work state. These companies weren’t afraid of American workers. Their Southern plants became some of the most productive and competitive auto factories in the world, with good-paying jobs and growing communities. What they avoided were union contracts that make innovation, restructuring, and adopting new technology painfully expensive and bureaucratic. The Rust Belt didn’t decline because Americans forgot how to build things. It declined because Big Labor made manufacturing economically unsustainable. That’s the part union bosses never want to admit.

Looks like the two union boss wolves were running the hen house. According to explosive federal court testimony, former Boilermakers union bosses Newton Jones and William Creeden were allegedly pulling down nearly HALF A MILLION DOLLARS EACH for “no-show” jobs at the so-called “Bank of Labor” -- yes, that’s really the name of the bank. The testimony claims these union kingpins rarely even showed up at the office, yet somehow logged full-time hours while also collecting lavish salaries, board fees, retirement benefits, luxury travel, private hunting trips, and even attempted $1.5 MILLION “golden parachutes.” In more than the usual dose of irony, the “Bank of Labor” claims as its motto “Born of Integrity,” and its mission is to “‘Live the Code’ of the North American labor movement.” If this is what the “Code” of the North American labor movement looks like, no wonder union bosses worked so hard to keep the books closed and their forced-dues money flowing. kansascity.com/news/local/art…

Teamster boss Sean O’Brien played the Trump administration like a fiddle. He pushed for a Labor Secretary with a long record of backing forced unionism, got exactly what he wanted, and now is washing his hands of the disaster while the media feasts on the chaos. The bigger mistake was giving a Right to Work-hating Teamsters boss a seat at the table in the first place. Trump’s base overwhelmingly supports employees’ freedom to choose whether to join a union. The White House should cut ties with O’Brien immediately and get back to defending Right to Work and individual worker freedom. thehill.com/opinion/campai…

New York commuters got stranded while union bosses lived like kings. According to federal filings, the same unions that paralyzed the Long Island Rail Road commute spent more than $3.2 MILLION on luxury hotels, casinos, high-end dining, and lavish travel. Nothing says “solidarity” like Caesars Palace suites and steakhouse tabs (when was the last time you dropped $20,000 at Peter Luger Steak House) all financed by workers’ forced union dues. Union bosses always demand “shared sacrifice,” but somehow the sacrifice is never coming from the limousine class running the unions. foxnews.com/politics/union…

The Rust Belt keeps getting rustier, yet the go-to excuse for manufacturing’s decades of decline is “CHINAAAH.” The reality? Manufacturers aren’t fleeing America or even sinking under Trump’s tariff wars; they’re fleeing bloated union contracts, counterproductive work rules, and Big Labor bosses who still think it’s 1975. If compulsory unionism were the key to industrial success, Detroit and other industrial Midwest cities would be booming instead of trapped in generational stagnation and decay. But the numbers don’t lie: Manufacturing grows fastest where union membership is voluntary, not forced as a condition of employment. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

One of the nation’s top teachers union bosses, that self-styled “protector of democracy,” Randi Weingarten, reportedly diverted more than $1.4 million in union resources to help produce a self-promoting political “manifesto” book -- all while hardworking teachers keep paying dues expecting workplace representation, not bankrolls for vanity projects and personal branding campaigns. Teachers deserve real representation, not union kingpins treating members’ dues money like their own personal PR slush fund. Thankfully, under the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s Supreme Court victory in Janus, public employees have the right to vote with their feet and stop funding this kind of narcissistic union boss excess. nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-…

Virginia union bosses are in full meltdown mode after Gov. Spanberger vetoed the collective bargaining bill they arrogantly thought was guaranteed to become law. Big Labor tried to corral ALL Virginia government workers under union monopoly control, despite representing only about 16% of the state workforce. That means 84% of public employees chose NOT to join a union and don’t want some union boss speaking for them or dictating how they do their jobs. Union bosses claim workers need a “seat at the table,” but it was Big Labor trying to steal that seat from independent public employees in the first place. Despite all of Big Labor’s backroom lobbying and political pressure, grassroots Right to Work supporters fought back hard, bombarding the Governor’s office with calls, emails, and messages opposing this dangerous expansion of government union power, and the National Right to Work Committee helped organize Board of Supervisors resolutions across the Commonwealth warning against forced collective bargaining schemes that would drive up taxes and hand more power to union bosses. Big Labor thought Virginia workers belonged to them. Freedom-loving Virginians reminded them otherwise. virginiamercury.com/2026/05/15/spa…

Reminder: the majority of public employees don't want to be forced into labor unions or be subjected to mandatory union boss representation. Nationwide only 32.9% of public-sector workers are union members. That leaves 67.1% of those same workers who want nothing to do with labor unions. And, for those in Virginia, roughly only 13.8% of the public workforce are currently union members. If union bosses can't sell their benefits and attract members freely, they don't deserve them. And, for any public employee currently looking to be free from their union, it’s important to know your rights. See: myjanusrights.org

Huge victory for Virginia workers and taxpayers! National Right to Work Committee members helped win a major victories for Virginia workers and taxpayers this year. First, Committee members and supporters successfully stopped efforts to repeal Virginia’s Right to Work Law, killing the proposal before it even made it out of committee. Then, through a massive grassroots campaign of emails, phone calls, petitions, and public pressure, pro-Right to Work Virginians convinced Governor Abigail Spanberger to veto the General Assembly’s radical Government Union Monopoly Bargaining Bill. The grassroots response was so overwhelming that the Governor’s office reportedly had its phone lines shutdown with calls flooding in from Right to Work supporters. These victories prove what a committed grassroots mobilization of concerned citizens can accomplish when they stand together against Big Labor power grabs. Thank you to every National Right to Work Committee member who helped make these victories possible. But the fight is far from over. Big Labor politicians will be back next year pushing the same misguided agenda, and we must remain ready to fight back once again. committeetounleashprosperity.com/hotlines/hoora…

The massive corruption allegations coming out of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers headquarters in Kansas City, MO, would make even Tony Soprano blush. Federal prosecutors say union bosses treated workers’ dues money like their own “personal piggy banks,” blowing millions on luxury travel, no-show jobs, flagrant nepotism, lavish perks, and sweetheart payouts while rank-and-file members footed the bill. Several former officials have already pleaded guilty in the alleged $20 million racketeering scheme. This is exactly what happens when union kingpins operate without accountability and workers are forced to pay union dues -- even to one as corrupt as the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers -- just to keep their jobs. Only a Right to Work law will give workers the freedom to vote with their feet by not having to finance flagrant corruption like this. Read the full story from the Kansas City Star. kansascity.com/news/local/art…

Be sure to sign your petition to your members of Congress urging them to support passage of the National Right to Work Act here: nrtwc.org/action/nationa…

Mark Mix joins Stacy Washington on her SiriusXM program to break down the shocking case of Southwest flight attendant Charlene Carter. Charlene spent nearly 10 years fighting back against union officials who had her fired for speaking out against their far-left political agenda, all financed through forced union dues. She won in court, exposed the union’s abuse, and secured a massive legal victory. Yet unbelievably, federal labor law still forces her to financially support the very union responsible for getting her fired. That tells you everything you need to know about the corrupt forced-unionism system Big Labor and its political allies are desperate to protect. Workers should have the right to say NO to paying dues to a labor union -- period. That’s why your support for the National Right to Work Act (S. 533/H.R. 1232) is so important. It would help restore freedom in the workplace and ensure no one else has to endure the kind of ordeal Charlene Carter went through — and continues to endure. youtube.com/watch?v=-Wb9tu…