By Olivia Grady

The National Nurses United (NNU) was founded in 2009 by a conglomeration of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, the United American Nurses and the Massachusetts Nurses Association. It is the largest union of registered nurses in the country with close to 185,000 members.

By Olivia Grady

Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United released a report on January 10, 2017 titled Secretary of Labor Violations?: The Low Road Business Model of CKE Restaurant Inc’s Andrew Puzder.

The report gave the results of a survey that ROC United had conducted on workers at franchised restaurants owned by CKE Restaurant Inc. about alleged labor violations. 

Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, was quoted on Eagle 93.9, Missouri radio on January 16, 2017, about Missouri becoming Right-to-Work:

Matt Patterson with the Americans for Tax Reform Center for Worker Freedom supports the measure.  He accused unions of being too political.

Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, was quoted in The Daily Signal on January 9, 2017, about Missouri becoming a Right-to-Work state:

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and Matt Patterson, executive director of the Center for Worker Freedom, have come out in support of a Missouri right-to-work law. The Center for Worker Freedom is a special project of Americans for Tax Reform, a nonprofit taxpayer advocacy group based in the District of Columbia.

Olivia Grady, Research Fellow at the Center for Worker Freedom, was published in Labor Watch on January 5, 2017, about the decertification effort in Minnesota:

It’s much easier to get a union certified than decertified. Under the rules, the homecare providers seeking decertification need to persuade at least 30 percent of the bargaining unit (over 9,000 PCAs in Minnesota) to sign authorization cards. The deadline is in early December. (The card can be obtained at the MNPCA.org website.)

Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, was quoted in The Washington Examiner on December 8, 2016, about the new labor secretary, Andrew Puzder:

In Puzder, Trump has picked a person who matches President Obama's current labor secretary, Tom Perez, in ideological zeal, just in the other direction. Matthew Patterson, executive director of conservative Center for Worker Freedom, an arm of Americans for Tax Reform, praised the pick.

By Olivia Grady

Missouri is finally likely to become a right-to-work state in 2017, thanks to the election of Missouri Governor-elect Eric Greitens.

Missouri Republicans have worked hard over the years on right-to-work and have come close. For example, on June 4, 2015 current Democrat Governor Jay Nixon vetoed House Bill 116, the bill that would have made Missouri right-to-work. The Republican Legislature was unable to override the veto.