North Carolina on Friday, March 18, will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its Right to Work law. The purpose and meaning of Right to Work are explained in a new report, “Pro-Worker, Pro-Growth Making Right-to-Work Permanent in North Carolina,” by F. Vincent Vernuccio and available on the website of the John Locke Foundation, which commissioned...
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke says “we won’t comply” with President Biden’s plan to force private employers to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for workers. Cooke is publisher of Carolina Journal. “That one man – Joe Biden – wants to force free Americans to inject something into their bodies should be abhorrent to everyone,” Cooke said...
N.C. Appeals Court Judge Lucy Inman is aggressively campaigning for a seat on the state Supreme Court. Inman announced her intentions shortly after being defeated by fellow Court of Appeals Judge Phil Berger Jr. in 2020 for an open seat on the state’s highest court. Berger defeated Inman 51% to 49%, a margin of 71,517...
N.C. Rep. Jason Saine, R-Lincoln, has introduced a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent in the Tar Heel State. House Bill 307 asks Congress to allow North Carolina to use daylight time year-round. The state now switches its standard time twice each year. People set clocks forward by one hour to Eastern Daylight...
Taxpayers could pay an extra $1.32 billion if public employees win the ability to collectively bargain, says a report by the John Locke Foundation. North Carolina has banned government employees from collective bargaining for 60 years. Repealing the prohibition would increase government spending by $889 million to $1.32 billion — creating a burden of up...
Unions won a new stronghold in North Carolina. Patients will pay the price, experts say. A national nurse’s union won a vote to organize 1,800 registered nurses across western North Carolina. The 965 votes to unionize Mission Health dwarfed 411 in opposition. The vote caps a long fight between HCA Healthcare, the country’s largest hospital...
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “will be the most pro-union president since [Franklin Roosevelt],” Jill Biden said of her husband Monday during a teleconference sponsored by a nurses’ union. “He will govern with the understanding that health care is a right, not a privilege.” The message from the former vice president’s wife may resonate in...
Some blind workers hope to recover their jobs in Winston-Salem. The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed House Resolution 4920 Monday, Dec. 16, when it moved to undo the damage it dealt to IFB Solutions, the largest employer of the blind. The bill would shield IFB solutions from Veterans First legislation, which required Veterans Affairs...
A nonprofit that employs the blind says it’s illegally losing its contracts with the Department of Veterans Affairs to a business that subcontracts the work to a non-veteran-owned, large business. U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th District, followed with a letter highlighting the dilemma of the nonprofit, Winston-Salem-based IFB Solutions. IFB Solutions accuses rival PDS, based...
Navy veteran Scott Smith went to bed on a Friday night. When he awoke the next morning he was blind. Scott, who was a welder, suffers from optic neuropathy, which cost him his vision. He was afraid he’d never work again. But for the past four years, Smith has worked in an optical factory in...
RALEIGH — Ask a conservative to list his political heroes, and you are likely to hear names such as Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and William F. Buckley. Those looking further back in time might list Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Fewer people are likely to mention Nathaniel Macon or Josiah Bailey, unless they have read the latest book from Raleigh author Garland Tucker. Tucker, chairman and chief executive officer of Triangle Capital Corporation, profiles important figures from American history in the book Conservative Heroes: Fourteen Leaders Who Shaped America, From Jefferson to Reagan. Tucker discussed the book with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
