The following is from an opinion column in the Sun Prairie Star by Richard McCarty, Director of Research at Americans for Limited Government Foundation. For the past several years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been dumping millions of dollars of its members’ money into efforts across the country to hike the minimum wage…

First, while unions that are part of the AFL-CIO are advocating for $15 per hour, the AFL-CIO doesn’t pay its own workers that much. It was recently reported that an usher working the AFL-CIO’s annual summer meeting where union bosses boasted about their success in championing the $15 minimum wage made well below that “minimum”…

Local minimum wage ordinances containing exemptions for workers covered by a collective bargaining agreement are popping up across the United States. These laws pressure employers into recognizing unions and boost union organizing, since unions will become the “low cost” way of doing business. Local wage ordinances frequently state that they “do not apply to employees…