The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of provisions in North Carolina’s 2017 Farm Act dealing with labor unions. Judges ruled the state can ban lawsuit settlements that force farm owners to recognize unions and collect their dues.
Unions and their Democrat supporters have eyed North Carolina’s strong economy and manufacturing industry for years, but lately the heat has been turning up amid COVID business lockdowns, labor shortages, and a looming 2022 election. North Carolina is a Right to Work state, meaning there is a law on the books that bans employers from...
A rally on Tuesday called to end the mask mandate in Wake County schools. More than 100 parents, grandparents, and students held signs and demonstrated in the cold outside Wake public school headquarters in Cary during a school board meeting. Carolina Teachers Alliance, the American Teachers Alliance, Open-NC.US, and Wake County’s Moms for Liberty held...
Political observers frequently describe North Carolina’s political leanings in terms of a rural-urban divide. The metro regions break heavily for Democrats, the rural areas side with Republicans. That split makes North Carolina a key swing state in statewide and national races. But a new analysis from Duke University — written by Duke professor Mac McCorkle...
RALEIGH — North Carolina is a right-to-work state, but that hasn’t stopped labor unions from trying to find new ways to boost their membership. Bruce Clarke, president and CEO of Capital Associated Industries, addressed the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society in 2014 on the topic “Labor Unions Battle for Members in North Carolina: Historical and Recent Strategies.” Clarke also discussed unions with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Labor union organizers in North Carolina have turned in recent years toward an increased focus on “social justice” messages. They’ve also focused more attention on the public sector than private industry. Those were two key themes from Capital Associated Industries chief executive Bruce Clarke’s speech Monday to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
RALEIGH — S. 3194, The Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2009, sponsored and introduced April 12 by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., would override North Carolina law forcing the state, municipalities, and counties to recognize and bargain collectively with unions representing police, firefighters, emergency medical responders, and others.
RALEIGH — The Union County Board of Education has been the only school board in the state to show any interest in improving its grade on the John Locke Foundation’s Web site NCTransparency.com.
Even in a state that forbids closed union shops, a federal card-check bill could have major negative consequences.
RALEIGH — Thirty-six years after his unsuccessful run for president, George McGovern attracted attention late last year for breaking with most Democrats on legislation dubbed the Employee Free Choice Act. George Leef, director of research for the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, says McGovern deserves applause for opposing the bill. Leef discussed the issue with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
There's no good reason to force workers to join a union. It's odd that many voters who claim to be "pro-choice" fail to apply their logic to union representation.
