Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts

Monday, January 23, 2017

National Right to Work Foundation Announces "A New Era of Worker Freedom"

The National Right to Work Foundation is lining up a series of incredible successes.



Since 2011, when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed off on sweeping collective bargaining reforms, and Indiana's decision to enact right-to-work, labor unions have been taking body blows year after year.

The funnel of easy money taken from working men and women to fund causes which hurt the workers they claim to represent--that river of money is drying up.

For the first time in 30 years, the Republican Presidential candidate won the Rust Belt, including Wisconsin and Michigan, as well as Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Incredible.

Much of this was due to the heavy battering that Labor unions have taken over the last eight years.

It's about time.

And with Right-to-work set to pass in at least three more states in this year alone, it looks as is forced unionism is all but dead.

Remember: Ronald Reagan was a union guy from the 1950's as President of the Screen Actors Guild. He would later champion the pro-American rah-rah of private sector unions, too, even though trade deals were fraught with problems for American workers.

Today, Donald Trump is standing on the shoulders of Republican giants throughout the country who stood up to corrupt labor union bosses and their anti-Constitutional actions.

Here is the latest eblast I received from the National Right to Work Foundation:

Dear Arthur,

Big Labor suffered a huge setback in November, when millions of rank-and-file workers refused to support the union bosses' handpicked candidates.

How about that? Remember when Crooked Hillary was lamenting to major labor bosses who she should be 50 points ahead? Talk about strident and desperate!



For eight long years, Barack Obama repaid his Big Labor benefactors by packing the courts and bureaucracies with forced-dues partisans who expanded union-boss power over workers.

Now, a new President is in the White House, and new appointees will be able to reverse that damage.

Reverse the damage, yes, and chart a new course where the voter franchise of individual citizens is no longer under attack from collective bargaining units buying politicians and bribing them to vote in the best interests of limited special interests.

That works for me.

After Donald Trump was elected, National Right to Work Foundation researchers immediately started to vet potential nominees to key judicial and administrative appointments -- including the U.S. Supreme Court.

In fact, just days after the election, the transition team and others on Capitol Hill began requesting our research on potential appointees.

Excellent! Strong interest groups fighting for the rights of all citizens understand that their work does not end after an election.

Right-to-work states, including Kentucky


Let me remind you what's at stake.

As you may recall, last year the United States Supreme Court appeared set to rule in the Friedrichs case that forcing civil servants to pay union dues or "fees" as a condition of employment violates the First Amendment.

That changed after Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death.

Rebecca Friedrichs has become a star because she stood up to the corrupt and oppressive California Teachers Association. California Republicans and activists throughout the state have tried as hard as they can to upend the union rules which allow syndicates to run Sacramento.

The rigging of California's elections has to cease, and the power of the purse has been snatched from the law-abiding citizens who pay all the bills.

At this point, California needs federal intervention, and a good Supreme Court decision upholding out First Amendment rights is exactly what we need.

But now, if a new Supreme Court Justice akin to Antonin Scalia takes his seat on the Court, victory in a follow-up Foundation lawsuit cutting off BILLIONS of forced-dues dollars paid by public employees is once again within our grasp.

Meanwhile, with your support, the National Right to Work Foundation can unleash new lawsuits and agency charges to repeal the Obama Administration's giveaways to Big Labor and win landmark new protections for working men and women across the country.

YES!

Of course, this is no time for us to become complacent.

We must stay vigilant against union-boss schemes to protect their forced-unionism power, such as their nationwide legal assaults against state Right to Work laws.

Thank you for your continued support as we enter this new window of opportunity to achieve historic victories against forced unionism.


Sincerely,

Mark Mix
President, National Right To Work Foundation

Thursday, January 12, 2017

The National Right-to-Work Foundation Tweeted My Article

This is exciting.

I have been connected with the Right-to-Work Foundation as a private citizen and a forced member of a union.

They had staffers and a lawyer who helped me to know my rights as a citizen, and to what extent a collective bargaining unit can force me to join and pay dues.



I tried to seek a religious exemption, or at least divert the dues to a non-profit of my choice,

I was not able to.

But the future is looking bright for all workers, and unions will actually get better because they will be more responsive to the needs of their members.

Today, Townhall.com published my article praising Kentucky's decision to become a right-to-work state. This victory was particularly outstanding because the Republicans in the Bluegrass State actively campaigned on passing this reform if elected.

The Republicans won the State House for the first time in nearly 90 years.

One of the first laws they passed? A three-bill package which enacted right-to-work, paycheck protection for workers, and repeal of prevailing wage laws.

Check out the article here.

I share it with the National Right to Work Foundation Twitter Feed.

And they shared it!


I can't wait for this number to climb to 29, and in four years all 50!

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Right-To-Work Reaches 27 States: Why It Matters

The battle lines have been drawn in Washington DC. President-Elect Donald Trump will be President-Inaugurated in a week and a half. Mexican cement companies have already offered bid to help build the Big, Beautiful Wall (with or without a door?). The US Senate Republicans already voted to repeal Obamacare. So happy! Now they have to agree on one plan.

US Senator Jeff Sessions is sparring with his colleagues as the next Attorney General designate, one who will uphold the rule of law rather than pursue political agenda at the expense of moral authority. ExxonMobil oil magnate Rex Tillerson is on his way to become the next Secretary of State, with the courage to call out the foreign policy fecklessness of the previous administration. The desperation of demoralized Democrats, doubling-down on their stupidity, should warm Republican hearts and political fortunes chances heading in to 2018.



But there’s bigger news happening in one state, which means good news for all fifty. A fairly well-known conservative reform was gaining notoriety and headlines. Because the #FakeNews outlets are busying themselves with Donald Trump’s latest tweets or all the hoopla about Russia, we haven’t heard too much about it. Or maybe because the liberal media doesn’t want to admit that the blue wall of Democratic dominance is taking on another breach.

In Kentucky, Governor Matt Bevin (only the 4th Republican governor in the last 100 years) just signed into law right-to-work (RTW) legislation, which makes the Bluegrass State the 27th  RTW state. Yes, this labor reform has been on the upswing the last six years. It’s become fairly predictable to determine which state will enact the policy next, since an average of one state per year has this adopted pro-liberty, pro-free market, pro-worker, pro-good government policy.

So, who cares about RTW State #27, and why should it be headline news, especially for the freedom fighters in our midst and across the country?

1. The rapidity of the passage of this reform. Within a week of Kentucky’s 2017 legislative session opening (with GOP legislative majorities for the first time in 90 years), Governor Bevin signed off on this law. No time wasted. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed off on RTW during the lame duck session for year 2012. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker didn’t go after it until his second term began in 2015.

2. The sweeping nature of the reforms. Governor Bevin and his Republican legislative colleagues went big. Not just RTW, but Bevin approved paycheck protection, which means that employees must opt in to have their union dues deducted instead of opting out. They also repealed “prevailing wages” laws, which will make contract bidding more efficient and less costly to Kentucky taxpayers.
3. The boldness to enact these comprehensive reforms.  Not even six years ago, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels and other Republican Governors in the Rust Belt played coy about Right-to-Work. Snyder told the legislature early in the 2012 session that labor reforms were not on his agenda. Scott Walker convinced audiences during the 2012 recall that such legislation would never come to his desk. Fast forward now, and Kentucky (as well as Missouri and New Hampshire) Republicans campaigned on RTW in their respective bids for office.

3. Republican leaders are demonstrating sheer courage in the face of raging onslaughts. Labor union toughies took over the Kentucky state legislature just before the bill passed, and the Governor faced off against them personally. When’s the last time we ever saw a Republican leader stand up to massive hostile crowds and not cave? Besides Trump, not too many.

Now, why should the American people as a whole care?

4. This reform will unshackle individual liberty and opportunity throughout the country. In fact, Kentucky’s RTW victories began in 2014, when individual counties began declaring themselves “Freedom To Work” zones. Despite lawsuits which followed, regional and city governments which ended compulsory membership and forced dues for individual workers already enjoyed stronger economic growth. Despite a series of lawsuits to block this practice, the 6th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals has defended the practice.

This is good news for the other states in the region, including Ohio, which hit a brick wall after Ohio Governor John Kasich signed off on sweeping collective bargaining reforms, which exceeded Walker’s Act 10 legislation, and were stuck down following a massive union-backed initiative campaign the next year.



This development is now good news for everyone:

5. Democrats across the country are losing their most reliable source of revenue. Labor unions are the backbone and front wallet of the already decimated Democratic Party. For the last three decades (at least), Democrats have relied on the union phalanx for forced membership and dues to line their pockets, purchase politicians, who in turn pass laws protect their limited, anti-business, anti-taxpayer interests. Progressive, socialist elements run these unions (they are, after all, collectivist at their core), and they push climate alarmism, abortion, LGBT tyranny, gun control, and other anti-liberty measures. This reform will hammer one more nail in the Communist-Socialist-Democratic Party and its perverse agenda. And there’s nothing that the once all-power labor unions can do about it.

6. Republicans as a party, and Americans as a whole, have a golden opportunity to sweep out the last vestiges of the Obama Administration and the strait-jacket of Democratic dominance in otherwise untouchable states like Illinois (where the SEIU has more power than the state government itself), New York (where Mario Cuomo is doubling down on liberal lunacy, like forced minimum wage hikes), and even California, where the California Teachers Association decides what passes and what fails.

The end of forced unionism means a restoration of our individual voter franchise, where special interests are not overriding individual voters. It also means that state legislatures can tackle meaningful, long-term entitlement reforms, and restore funding to core functions of local government to the people.

It’s about freedom. It’s about choice, and it’s about time that more people appreciate what RTW is doing for this country.

Saturday, December 3, 2016

States Going Right-To-Work in 2017

Big Labor took big blows to their power differentials in 2016.

Donald Trump has announced that he is pro-right to work.

Labor unions poured hundreds of millions into PACs and pro-Hillary Campaign coffers.

She begged and pleaded, got strident with her union hordes: "Why aren't I 50 points ahead?!"

The reform makes it easier to do business.

And making it easier to do business, makes it easier to employee and expand commerce.

Right-to-work is the right to work without losing your money.

Right-to-work means that an employee does not have to pay a bribe in order to get a job.

Right-to-work means freedom.

Right-to-work means that a corrupt, elitist union manager cannot take your money, then spend it on candidates which the member does not support, and which undermine the very reason why we have unions in the first place.

And it's looking like it will steam-roll through at least three more states in the next year.

1. Missouri

The bill was pre-filed yesterday!


 It's not just a top priority in the Show-Me state, it's the first priority.

2. Kentucky

The Bluegrass state is red all over now. For the first time in decades, Republicans control every branch of government.

The new house speaker (Republican) has announced right-to-work as a legislative priority, too:

The media spin is lamentable ("anti-abortion" instead of pro-life), but they cannot stop the representatives of the Kentucky people from putting an end to forced unionism and coerced dues in their domain.

The South has become a full forced Republican sweep, and the Democrats have only themselves to thank, as they hugged their Left-wing without any thought for the common needs of everyday Americans.


In fact, county governments have expanded their own right-to-work provisions, picking up where the state government has not taken the lead.

Check this out:


Local governments are advancing local freedom-to-work laws with or without higher approval.

This ruling only applies to states in the Sixth Circuit.

It would be nice to see similar rulings help out the Ninth Circuit for California, but those cases are slow in coming at this time.

3. New Hampshire

This reform may break out in New Hampshire. Imagine a right-to-work state right in the heart of liberal Democratic New England!

The legislation has already been filed!


Here's more relating to Right-to-work in "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire:

Research and development in New Hampshire, not just political motivations, are pushing for Right-to-work!

Final Reflection


Big Labor is already shaking in their boots.

And they should be afraid.

Anti-American Legislative Executive Council is already getting some heat:



But it's not working.

How much longer did Big Labor think they would get away with playing politics with other people's money?

For the past thirty years, a slow decline was inevitable, as corporations and even smaller franchises got tired of playing nice with aggressive labor union bullies. Private sector unions are on the wave as commercial enterprises invert or flee the country.

States which have rejected forced unionism and coerced dues are bouncing back faster in this economy.

The bluest states in the union remain forced unionism states, and they will be forced to pay hefty pension and benefit costs. These states are also overrun with corruption and interest groups pushing a regressive, left-wing agenda.

Right-to-work states are gaining jobs, growing their economies, and helping more families.



Saturday, November 12, 2016

Election 2016: Right To Work on the RISE!

Election 2016 has further sealed the fate of Big Labor and forced unionism in the United States. How much longer did the phalanx of govenment bullying, collective bargaining entitlements, and taxpayer theft think that they would get away with their pilfering?

The legalized theft and money-laundering perpetrated against taxpayers must cease.

Labor unions, especially the public sector unions, do not have to budge. City councils, school boards, and state governments have to comply, or strikes ensue. Have they forgotten the bold warning of President Ronald Reagan? Government is not an assemblyman, and their operations cannot stop. President Calvin Coolidge was more pertinent. "There is NO right to strike against the public interest anywhere at any time,"

Let's not forget the plight of the individual worker.

They are forced to join a union, extorted for part of their paycheck in order to have a job in the first place.

They are forced to pay those dues.

They are forced to sit and watch their union spend their hard-earned money on candidates and causes which actually hurt working people. All of this is wrong.

Labor unions are trampling First Amendment rights, They are driving businesses out of states. They hurt commerce. They drive up prices, and their collusion with the government, whether state, local, or federal, is doing more harm than good.

Every man deserves the right to work, and indeed he will work for more when he gets to choose where he goes.

Election 2016 has further ensured that Big Labor Bullying will get bullied back.

Consider the following outcomes:

1. Missouri is now a safe and sound GOP trifecta. Republicans gaine two seats in the state house, and only lost one seat in the state senate.

Now the Show Me State has a Republican Governor: Eric Greitens



Here are his plans on RTW:

RIGHT TO WORK HELPS MISSOURIANS.

I believe we must have “Right-to-work” legislation to improve Missouri’s job climate.

Because pro-freedom Republicans have a clear majority in the state legislature, and this time they will not have to muster a supermajority to ovecome veto, Big Labor will lose another battleground for funneling money into their pockets to disrupt other races.

2. Kentucky



Governor Matt Bevin won election in 2015, defeating an otherwise well-connected Attorney General as well as running against a decades-long tradition of light-blue Democratic leadership in the Bluegrass state.

He won the state senate, but could not break the Democratic stronghold on the statehouse.

Election 2016 changed all of that for good.

Right-to-work has inched its way through country governments, but now Bevin can work with like-minded liberty conservatives and ensure that no worker will ever be forced into a union in order to have a job.

Make that 28 states ending forced unionism very soon,

3. This state is the biggest surprised of the Election 2016 cycle: New Hampshire,

This pink state is taking on a lighter shade of blew.

The federal offices all went Democrat. Incumbent US Senator Kelly Ayotte lost to Maggie Hassan, the termed-out governor of the Granite State. Frank Guinta of Congressional District 1 also lost his re-election bid.

But for state offices, Republicans took the whole state down!

Chris Sununu won the governor's seat!



Republicans expanded their majority in the state senate.

The New Hampshire House of Representatives is still pending, but there is very little chance of Democrats taking back the state house.

And guess what? Sununu has signed onto Right to Work, too!

During the primary election, Sununu announced:

"We haven't brought a major business into the state in eight years. Right-to-work is part (of the solution)."

Indeed!

Imagine one of the bluest sections of the country, New England, a home for a right-to-work state? This trend could ensure more Republicans a chance at state and federal office throughout the region, since the Democratic Party's sole funding source has been the coerced dues of labor unions throughout the region.

By the end of legislative year 2017, the tally will rest at 29 right-to-work states.

Entering into Election Year 2018, expect to see Big Labor bullies screaming and yelling for their easy money at taxpayer expense. Businesses will return to these states in growing numbers.

As for the remaining forced unionism states, a couple of well-placed lawsuits, and a new conservative Supreme Court, will strike down the remaining statutes imposing on individual liberties and taxpayer dollars.

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Democratic Congressman Denounces Hillary's Free College Pandering

Congressman John Yarmuth is the only Democratic representative left in Kentucky.

President Obama has declared war on life, family and coal.


The Bluegrass State may have to start calling itself the Red Grass sat very soon.,

West Virginia will have to change its signature Blue Mountain ridges to red, as well.

I wonder if Yarmuth is even going to vote for Hillary Clinton the general election.

His latest remarks on the John and Leah Show suspect that he is calling her bluff.

Whether Yarmuth likes it or not, his state is going for Donald Trump in November,

The conservative upswing spreading across Kentucky could wipe him out of office, too.,

The particular brand of Republican populism advocated by Trump resonates with all voters in these labor intensive states, including Kentucky.

Start listening to the recording at the 11:00 minute mark:

"Bernie Sanders and I will work together to make college tuition free for the middle class and debt free for all."

She spoke glowingly for her socialist rival Bernie Sanders, acknowledging that she cannot win without his supporters.

Many of them have no interest whatsoever in working with, let alone voting for, Hillary Clinton.

One of her superdelegate supporters, Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, dismissed the idea of free college tuition long ago, announcing that nothing is free.

Yet here is Hillary, promising to give everyone a free college education.

What were Yarmuth's thoughts on this big giveaway? There is no change of that happening, right?

"Absolutely right," the Hillary Clinton superdelegate affirmed on live radio. "It's not going to happen."

John Yarmuth (D(?)-Kentucky)


This House Rep, in the only liberal bastion left in Kentucky, admitted on live radio, and contravened his party's Presidential nominee.

Wow! Just Wow!

"What she's clearly trying to do is to make sure that Bernie Sanders' voters don't desert her."

Too late!

Can you imagine a Democratic Congressman having the guts to admit Hillary's fraud on radio?

Actually, no one should be surprised.

He still has to play to the center in his district. Donald Trump's onslaught is going to put his seat in play, as much as anyone else who tries to play up progressive credentials in the Democratic Party.

What else is going on behind Yarmuth's repudiation of Hillary Clinton policies?

Could it be that because his district has a D+5 shift, that he is preparing to switch parties?

After all, the 2014 wipeout has put Southern Democrats at distinct disadvantages throughout the South.