Close
Get in touch
Blog Posts
Comprehensive New Report Finds Significant Flaws in Paid Sick Leave Mandates
In both Washington state and nationwide, campaigns are under way at the state and local level to pass regulations requiring employers to provide paid sick leave benefits to employees. The stated goal of these mandates is to improve public health by reducing workplace illness.
Eight Union Arguments Against Transparency in Collective Bargaining
Following a recent Freedom Foundation protest against the ongoing secret meetings between Gov. Jay Inslee’s negotiators and representatives of the state employees’ unions, the Seattle Times editorial board joined a growing chorus of newspapers and political observers calling for more transparency in the collective bargaining process.
The Effect of Mandatory Paid Sick Leave Policies – Reviewing the Evidence
This report evaluates 10 of the most important and widely cited studies from both supporters and opponents of mandatory paid …
Media Mentions – Week of August 24, 2014
570 KVI – Supreme Court Extends Illinois Ruling to Daycare Providers Freedom Foundation’s labor Analyst, Max Nelson joined the Commute …
SEIU 775 Continues Deceptive Effort to Prevent Home Care Workers from Leaving
The drama surrounding the implementation (or lack thereof) of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Harris v. Quinn decision in Washington continues to unfold.
Media Mentions – Week of August 17, 2014
Washington Free Beacon – SEIU Begs Workers to Keep Paying Up A powerful Washington State union has abandoned defending a …
SEIU 775 Seeking to Manipulate Home Health Care Providers Out of their Constitutional Rights
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Harris v. Quinn, which found that it was unconstitutional for home health care providers to be forced to union dues or fees against their will, SEIU 775 in Washington quietly began ceasing the dues deductions for providers who asked them to do so.
How Washington Home Care Providers Can Opt Out of SEIU Dues
In July, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an Illinois “scheme” by which individual home health care providers had union dues automatically deducted from their state Medicaid reimbursement payments.
Media Mentions – Week of August 10, 2014
Peninsula Daily News – Petitions Verified to Make Sequim City Hall Union Talks Public; Now Issue Goes to City Council …
Freedom Foundation Supporters Protest Secret Government-Union Negotiations
Today, Freedom Foundation supporters and staff protested the closed-door collective bargaining sessions underway between Gov. Inslee’s negotiators and state employees’ unions at the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) headquarters in Olympia.
