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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.
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 @ 1:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Before he became a household name in one of the most significant Supreme Court victories for public employees' First Amendment rights in decades, Mark Janus was warned by his worried mother about taking on powerful union forces.
Published: Sunday, February 10th, 2019 @ 5:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Public employee unions can't compel workers to pay union fees, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday, June 27, in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
Published: Wednesday, July 11th, 2018 @ 5:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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National Employee Freedom Week is a national effort to publicize employee rights to opt-out of union membership
Published: Sunday, August 21st, 2016 @ 9:19 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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One of the many things I like about North Carolina is a provision in the NC General Statutes that forbids collective bargaining by public employees. Thanks to that law, North Carolina public employee unions are, politically, relatively weak. In states without such laws, on the other hand, public...
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dana Cope has stepped on some powerful toes during his tenure as head of the state employees union here in North Carolina. Most of them have been on the starboard side of the political spectrum.
Published: Thursday, February 12th, 2015 @ 3:49 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Backing up comments promising North Carolina would remain the "least unionized state in the United States," Speaker of the House Thom Tillis has sponsored a bill that would place on the November 2014 ballot constitutional amendments limiting union organizing.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 6:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Coleman, the former Democrat legislator and state personnel chief, was backed to the hilt this year by the state's powerful public employees union.
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2012 @ 8:13 am
By: Brant Clifton
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