Manufacturing jobs that formed the bedrock of unions have gone overseas or become nonunion.
We empower unions to the detriment of nonunion workers in ways which explode state and local budgets.
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Delphi's nonunion retirees and retirees in other unions did not fare so well.
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The foreigners like their plants nonunion--in fact, so do their auto workers--and they turn down the union in elections.
Vermeer and Pella between them offer a combined 5, 500 nonunion jobs in a town where 7, 500 working-age adults live.
The clients are looking to cut costs, and one way to do it is to outsource menial jobs to nonunion contractors.
The deal ended opposition to a new nonunion plant in South Carolina.
Last year, in fact, 5, 000 nonunion workers at Toyota's Georgetown, Ky. plant earned more, on average, than their UAW counterparts at the Big Three.
The United Auto Workers union has a great deal of influence in Michigan politics, and nonunion plants are highly unpopular in the Wolverine State.
By and large, the phoenixes rising from these ashes are nonunion.
On passage, unions could not use any portion of a members dues or nonunion employees fees for political activities without annual written authority from that person.
The high court in past cases has ruled nonunion public sector workers cannot be forced to pay for union activities not directly related to collective bargaining.
At issue was whether nonunion employees may be constitutionally required to pay special fees to a union to help cover things like political spending on ballot measures.
With Race to the Top, the Obama administration has put its weight behind a reform agenda featuring charter schools, which employ mostly nonunion labor, as its centerpiece.
All KIPP schools have longer school days and most have some kind of paycheck system for motivating students, and all are staffed largely by young, nonunion, still motivated teachers.
Voters are also aware of his past votes for acts like Davis-Bacon, which requires taxpayers to pay union rates in government-funded contracts and disadvantages nonunion companies in right-to-work South Carolina.
His union has lost 75, 000 members in the past four years, its biggest employers are slashing benefits and closing plants, and new nonunion factories continue to open in the South.
The justices said those nonunion workers must be allowed to make an informed choice about how those kinds of fees are spent, allowing them to object and obtain a rebate.
The firm touts innovative technology and a nonunion workforce.
The line is nonunion, as are all Toyota plants in the U.S. But the missteps and sales slumps made Blue Springs the Kate Middleton of car plants, its launch delayed for nearly two years.
"When a public-sector union imposes a special assessment of dues increase, the union must provide a fresh ... notice and may not exact any funds from nonunion members without their affirmative consent, " Alito added.
The high court noted nonunion members were not given a choice on whether they would "opt in" and pay into this special fund, and the money was taken directly out of their paychecks and pensions.
"People agree with the unions because the workers want to be backed on everything, but then again, there aren't people striving to do their job better, " said Quinn, whose father works at the nonunion Honda plant.
This shift is nearly complete in the private sector: As of March 2009, 84% of state and local government employees had access to a defined benefit plan, compared to just 21% of private employees (and 16% of nonunion private employees).
Example: When Verizon Communications (nyse: VZ - news - people ) partially froze its nonunion pension plan covering 50, 000 workers in July, it raised the maximum company match (assuming it hits profitability targets) to 9% of salary for a worker who saves 6%, up from 5% for one who saves 6%.
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