CONCORD, N.H.—“Right to work for less” legislation will not gain its first beachhead in the Northeast. On June 3, the New Hampshire House of Representatives rejected Senate Bill 61, which
CONCORD, N.H.—The New Hampshire Senate narrowly voted Feb. 11, to pass a bill that would make it the first state in the Northeast to outlaw the union shop. The New
AUSTIN, Tex.—From the birth of so-called “right to work” laws in the 1940s to the recent state legislation pre-empting local paid-sick-leave ordinances, Texas has been tough turf for organized labor.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The Associated Press has changed its guide for reporters and editors to recommend that they no longer describe laws prohibiting the union shop as “right-to-work” laws.
BEREA, Ky.—Kentucky has added 1,400 fewer jobs in the 21 months since it banned the union shop in 2017 than it did in the same period before the law was
WASHINGTON—Will Democratic gains in the November elections lead to the repeal of so-called “right to work” laws banning the union shop?
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Voters in Missouri rejected a state law banning the union shop by a two-to-one margin in the Aug. 7 primary. Proposition A, which would have allowed the so-called
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Three weeks before the Aug. 7 vote on a ballot initiative to repeal Missouri’s law banning the union shop, the pro-repeal coalition had raised more than four times
