WESTFIELD, N.J. – Pharmacist and attorney Rik Mehta, a political newcomer, is the winner of Union County’s Republican nominating convention contest for U.S. Senate. That distinction and others were decided by county committee members on Wednesday evening at the Kean Read More
Op-Ed: Support for the PRO Act would do a disservice to New Jersey | Howley
By Tony Howley _ New Jersey politicians have stubbornly opposed right-to-work legislation, leaving our state among the minority in which employees can be forced to join a union or to pay dues to support political causes with which they disagree. Now nine Read More
Tracing $3.6 Million For That Shadowy Pro-Phil Murphy ‘Dark Money’ Org
TRENTON, N.J. – Figuring out who’s funding the pro-Phil Murphy ‘New Direction New Jersey’ organization is difficult to say the least. According to a new report from NorthJersey.com and the USA Today Network, the Service Employees International Union (32BJ SEIU) kicked Read More
The PRO Act Is Anti-worker
By Erica Jedynak – For the past several decades, we’ve seen workers across the nation see more choice, thanks to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court Janus v. AFSCME decision reaffirming First Amendment rights and passage of right-to-work laws in 27 states. These developments protect Read More
Three N.J. public employees sue to challenge Murphy’s sinister “Workplace Democracy Enhancement Act”
MIDLAND, MI — The next chapter in the Janus v. AFSCME saga is kicking off right here in New Jersey. On Friday, the Michigan-based Mackinac Center Legal Foundation announced that it had filed three individual lawsuits on behalf of New Read More
Sorry Sleepy Joe, American workers already have their 2020 candidate: Donald Trump
By Col. Douglas MacGregor _ Joe Biden is making a real effort to run for President as a working class hero — but that role has already been filled by Donald Trump. The putative Democratic frontrunner launched his campaign in Read More
MUST READ: The NJEA is fatter (but less financially secure?) than ever before
By The Staff _ The popular left-of-center education watchdog blog NJ Left Behind published an informative and eye-opening post on Tuesday, Save Jerseyans, analyzing the latest-available information on the spending of the notorious New Jersey Education Association (NJEA). Any taxpayer Read More
BLS: 43,000 less New Jerseyans were union members in 2018
By Matt Rooney _ It’s early, Save Jerseyans, and results nation-wide appear to be mixed, but the first (partial) year of the post-Janus American labor landscape saw an overall decline in U.S. union membership and ended particularly ominously for New Read More
Leading N.J. Trump supporter urges police unions to “get out of the bed with the Democrats”
TRENTON, N.J. — The murder of a California police officer, allegedly by a illegal alien suspect, has added more fuel to the already combustible national immigration debate which, at present, has the U.S. federal government in partial shutdown mode. A Read More