Gulf Ship Adds New Jobs in Right to Work Mississippi | NILRR The Mississippi Development Authority announced Wednesday that Gulf Ship is expanding operations in Gulfport with a $43.81 million investment that looks to create 121 jobs. Gulf Ship is an Edison Chouest Offshore company. The shipyard has operated in Gulfport for more than two decades. Edison Chouest Offshore CEO Gary Chouest said there is a tremendous amount of focus nationally on rebuilding America’s shipbuilding industrial base, and Mississippi has an important role to play in that effort. “This project is about investing in American shipbuilding, expanding domestic manufacturing capacity and giving our workforce the facilities, equipment and technology needed to compete at the highest level,” Chouest said. “We are proud to make that investment here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and proud to have state and local partners who recognize the importance of shipbuilding to both Mississippi’s economy and our nation’s maritime future.” magnoliatribune.com/2026/09/…

Project Labor Agreements: Higher Costs and Less Competition for Massachusetts Public Construction | Fiscal Alliance Foundation fiscalalliancefoundation.org…

A Big Reason California suffers a housing crisis: Big Labor Bosses would rather slow down construction than face competition from free enterprise... California’s construction unions are running ads against their own jobs ocregister.com/2026/10/21/ca…

"North Carolina’s labor policy has long been rooted in choice. In 1947, it became one of the first states to enact a “right to work” law, which allowed employees to opt out of mandatory union dues. ... The result has been prosperity. Since 1960, North Carolina has added GDP and jobs at a faster rate than the national average. ... it has created an overwhelmingly attractive business environment, ranking first in CNBC’s 2025 rankings of the best states for business." "But elsewhere, public policy is moving in a different direction — a direction that sacrifices choice in favor of more union membership." The debate over labor unions used to be about choice. One side said that joining a union should be as easy as possible to maximize an employee’s ability to choose a union. The other side said that the process should have guardrails so that people weren’t forced into a union they didn’t want. But both sides agreed that free choice was the goal. In North Carolina, the law still reflects that idea. In both the public and private sectors, North Carolina protects employees’ right to choose. It gives private employees a right to opt out of union dues. And it protects public employees from having a union contract foisted on them. In effect, it respects choice by preventing coercion. authors Patrick Pizzella is mayor of Pinehurst and former deputy secretary of the US Department of Labor. Alexander T. MacDonald advises employers on all aspects of the employment and labor landscape for Littler Mendelson PC, and is a shareholder and co-chair of the Workplace Policy Institute. carolinajournal.com/opinion/…

Politicians lied about what would happen to Michigan without Right-to-Work freedoms, and other states should learn from this and consider adopting Right-to-Work to grow jobs, not taxes. Don't be a Whitmer...

Gov. Whitmer seeks foreign aid for the UAW Bosses ...

Big Labor-Backed Politicians want to micromanage employers and pass legislation that controls personnel policies, such as requiring one cashier for every two self-checkout stations in states like Ohio and Connecticut. According to USA Today, at least six states have considered rules that would restrict self-checkout machines. The states range from blue Connecticut to red Ohio, but it doesn't stop there. Two cities in California already have self-checkout limits in place, while New York City is also considering restrictions. - Reason reason.com/2026/05/02/self-c…

Does having Radical SEIU Unions in charge of caregiving make you feel better? Should public agencies collude with the SEIU union bosses? New York's controversial restructuring of the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) is facing another significant legal challenge, this time involving the effort to unionize approximately 190,000 personal assistants across the state. On October 14, 2026, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation announced that a Buffalo-area CDPAP caregiver had filed unfair labor practice charges against Public Partnerships LLC (PPL) and 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, along with a motion to intervene in the union's pending representation proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)... ...Another important aspect of today's development involves the relationship between PPL and 1199SEIU. The National Right to Work Foundation alleges that the two organizations cooperated through an organizing agreement connected to the transition of CDPAP fiscal intermediary services. According to the Foundation, this relationship raises questions about whether PPL improperly assisted the union in obtaining support for its representation petition. The Foundation has also argued that because PPL and 1199SEIU are not necessarily adversarial in the representation proceeding, caregivers who oppose the proposed arrangement should have an opportunity to present their own arguments. This is a particularly important distinction. martoncare.com/post/cdpap-un…

Sean Fain brags about the UAW's rising political power in Michigan thanks to Forced Union Dues, since the governor signed off on repealing Michigan's Right-to-Work-Protections for workers and their families' incomes. It is long past time to end the lie that forced dues aren't used for politics. detroitnews.com/story/opinio…

SHAME on UFCW Union Bosses: 86-Year-Old Veteran Fights Back, Hits UFCW Union with Federal Charges for Causing his Illegal Firing from Part-Time Grocery Job UFCW bosses ignored Village Market employee for four years, then suddenly had him fired, claiming he owed over $3,500 in back dues and fees Oakland, CA (September 28, 2026) – With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation, an 86-year-old veteran who worked part-time at Village Market in Oakland has filed federal charges at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 (UFCW) union. The charge says UFCW 5 union officials illegally had Phil Holland fired in early September claiming he owed thousands of dollars in back dues and fees. Holland, a Navy veteran with 30 years’ of experience in law enforcement, who also works part-time as a YMCA fitness instructor, was hired by the Village Market grocery store that he shopped at for 30 years in February of 2022 after he noticed a “help wanted” sign in the window. During his first four years of employment, UFCW Local 5 union officials never contacted him, never asked him to pay union dues or fees, and never notified him of his legal rights under the 1988 Foundation-won CWA v. Beck Supreme Court decision, which protects employees from being required to pay full union dues for activities unrelated to union bargaining like union-boss political activism. This suddenly changed in May 2026 when UFCW Local 5 union officials began sending threatening messages “welcoming” him to the union and later demanding that he become a member or lose his job. Shortly after in July, UFCW Local 5 union bosses sent the part-time employee who worked 12 hours a week a letter demanding that he pay over $3,500 in retroactive dues and fees under the threat of termination. The union communication lacked the required information to inform him of his legal rights under the Beck decision. nrtw.org/news/veteran-filesc…

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Richmond-Area Penske Workers Latest to Eject Teamsters Following Unanimous Vote to End Teamsters’ So-Called ‘Representation’ - National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Every day Teamsters bosses give workers new reasons not to want to associate with the union, and we are pleased to have assisted Mr. Cutrell and his coworkers in reclaiming their workplace freedom,” stated National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. “Foundation attorneys will continue to be a resource for all rank-and-file workers wanting to exercise their legal right to end their affiliation with the Teamsters.” Cutrell and his colleagues are the latest in a growing number of workers who have approached the Foundation to exercise their legal right to remove Teamsters union officials from their workplaces. In just the past few years, Foundation-assisted Penske employees have successfully removed unwanted union bosses from their facilities at several locations across the country, including Dallas, TX, Bloomington, IN, Eagan and Roseville, MN, Nashville, TN, and Swedesboro, NJ. Just this month, Foundation attorneys also secured a settlement for UPS worker and former Teamsters president Andrew Davis, in his dispute with the Teamsters over union bosses targeting him for informing his coworkers of their legal rights to not be union members and for filing charges against the union with the NLRB. Davis filed his charges after Teamsters officials falsely claimed, in front of his coworkers, that it was a “federal crime” to discuss how to resign their union membership. nrtw.org/news/virginia-pensk…

Workers vote out union twice, Seventh Circuit blocks NLRB intervention But the NLRB kept trying to force employees to keep the union that employees voted to get rid of... fortunately, the court eventually gave the employees the freedom they wanted. hcamag.com/us/specialization…

Case worth following: Union Kept Taking Her Dues After She Quit, Waukesha Painter Says in Class Action Lawsuit A painter for a Waukesha contractor has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing her union and her employer of continuing to deduct dues from her paychecks after she gave written notice that she was leaving the union. Caryn Johnson, an employee of Olympic Companies, filed the suit Sept. 18 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin against the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 7 and Olympic. She is represented for free by staff attorneys with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Union officials told Johnson she had to wait until a 10-day window in February 2027 to stop paying. Johnson argues that she was coerced into joining the union in the first place and that Wisconsin law allows her to decide when to stop paying dues. Foundation President Mark Mix said Wisconsin’s Right to Work law is “designed to fully protect workers from being forced to pay union dues.” He accused union officials of using arbitrary window periods to block workers who try to stop paying. Told Membership Was Mandatory The lawsuit follows charges Johnson filed with the National Labor Relations Board in June. In those charges, she said union officials falsely told her she had to join the union and pay dues to work at Olympic. The company has worked on large Milwaukee projects including the Baird Center and the BMO Harris Financial Center. wisconsinrightnow.com/union-…

Listen to "Labor Unions Only Work When Workers Are Free" by Ricochet via #spreaker ...Matt, and you make an important point when you talk about the disconnect between union officials and rank-and-file workers. ... And when we say members, one would think that they are willingly joining and willingly participating in organized labor. And that fact is obviously not true. But today in America, only 5.9% of the private sector workforce is represented or has union membership, the union density, if you will. That means that 95% or 94% of workers in America, if you listen to Sean Fain at the United Auto Workers Union or Randy Weingarten at the American Federation of Teachers, you'd believe that they don't get paychecks. They don't get vacation. They don't get sick leave. They don't get insurance. They don't get pensions. They don't get anything because they have decided not to be part of organized labor. But the fact of the matter is the reason why that density is diminishing is because the growth first and foremost in America because this is a place, a good place to do business and getting to be a better place to do business under this current administration for that matter... spreaker.com/episode/labor-u…

Sean O’Brien is just Randi Weingarten in a hard hat When the Supreme Court considered Janus v. AFSCME, in which it ruled that government unions could not compel nonmembers to pay union fees, private-sector unions came to their defense. The Teamsters, the Laborers, and the Machinists filed briefs supporting compulsory government-union fees. The left-wing advocacy goes beyond the economic realm. Liberal-to-open-borders immigration policies have been endorsed by the primarily private-sector Unite Here and UFCW alongside largely government unions. washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…

Another shiny example of Right-to-Work Texas, where employers and employees who are unencumbered by labor union forced union dues, making America Greater.