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Unions Angry About Health Care Law

Cross-posted from the Workforce Freedom Initiative's blog. When the administration of President Obama came to office in 2009, his arrival put Democrats, who also ran of both houses of Congress, in...

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NLRB Has Problems with Authority

“The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has problems with authority.” That’s the wry-but-accurate opening line from a new lawsuit filed by Cablevision in the D.C. Circuit that attempts to block the...

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U.S. Chamber Law Firm Flexes Its Muscle

In his annual State of American Business speech, U.S. Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue pledged to “deepen our bench of policy experts, communicators, and lawyers to prevail in the battle of policy...

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Can Apprenticeships Make a Comeback?

Apprenticeships have changed. Now we just need to convince the American public, and more importantly, lawmakers.Once the province of traditional trades and under the control of organized labor, they...

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NLRB Goes 0-2 on Union Poster Rule

A second federal appeals court—this time the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals—ruled that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overstepped its ground with its rule requiring employers to post a...

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Entitlements: Face the Truth or Face the Consequences

It’s a challenge that impacts every single citizen, the health of the nation’s economy, and the country’s ability to maintain its leadership role in the world. That challenge is the urgent need to...

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OUTRAGE: SF Workers Might Be Able to Set Their Own Schedules

Under a new measure before the San Francisco board of supervisors, local businesses would be required to offer parents and caregivers so-called “flexible” work schedules, including the ability to...

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Supreme Court Will Review NLRB Recess Appointments Case

Today the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would review NLRB v. Noel Canning, the case challenging the president’s unconstitutional recess appointments to the NLRB. In January, the U.S. Court of...

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National Employee Freedom Week Highlights Right-to-Work Laws

A coalition of think tanks and other organizations has launched the first “National Employee Freedom Week,” which runs from June 23-29, 2013, to highlight right-to-work laws across the country. These...

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How Enterprise-Friendly Is Your State?

Does your state have a strong business climate? How does your state compare with others on number of startups, the development of human talent, and the quality of infrastructure?A new study by the U.S....

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When is a Regulation Not a Regulation?

Much ink (or the digital equivalent) has been spilled criticizing the Obama administration’s aggressive and expansive regulatory agenda.  And as burdensome and ill-conceived as many of these...

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NLRB Nominee Urged Congress To Enact Controversial Card Check Bill

This post first appeared on the Workforce Freedom Initiative's blog. In the aftermath of the announcement that certain U.S. Senators would not in fact deploy the “nuclear option,” which would have...

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Visa Rule Hurts Seasonal Businesses

Visitors to America’s beaches in this last month of summer may find, or have already found, that hotels have slightly fewer available rooms or that golf pro shops and ice-cream shops are operating on...

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Marriott's Sorenson: How to Make the U.S. the World's #1 Travel Destination

Travel and tourism is a $2 trillion industry in the United States, supporting 14.6 million U.S. jobs and accounting for nearly 3% of the nation’s gross domestic product. However, the United States’...

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Success in Manufacturing Hinges on Supply Chain Efficiency

This segment is the third in a series on manufacturing's challenges and potential. Read the first one here and the second, focused on regulations’ negative impacts on the industry, here.The next time...

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The Living Wage: A Tale of Two Growth Strategies

What’s the best strategy for reducing poverty in economically stricken neighborhoods and cities? Attract businesses that will drive employment, growth, and revenue in a big way. What’s the worst...

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The New, Not So Improved, NLRB

While Senate Democrats have backed off of their threat to use the “nuclear option” to force through President Obama’s executive nominations, the business community is left to deal with the proverbial...

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A Rose By Any Other Name is Still a Union

Unions are getting very creative when it comes to thinking up new ways to rebuild their membership.  Whether some of these new strategies comport with federal law, however, is a question being asked by...

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Crossing the Line: Teamsters Protest at Funerals

This is cross-posted from the Workforce Freedom Initiatives blog. In an ordinary world, one would hope that disputes between labor and management could be resolved amicably. This, unfortunately, is not...

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Full Speed Ahead at the NLRB

This is cross-posted from the Workforce Freedom Initiative's blog. Not far from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sits a popular park named after David Glasgow Farragut, a famous Civil War admiral in the...

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