Archive for September 2012
Right to Work States Have Superior Job Growth
Total full-time and part-time employment by industry (SA25, SA25N) Compensation of employees by industry (SA06, SA06N) On September 25, 2011, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued…
Read MoreIs NLRB Acting General Counsel’s Alleged Lawbreaking Being Investigated?
Cause of Action Demands Answers From NLRB On Ex Parte … This past spring, Republican National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Terence Flynn was effectively drummed out of the agency. For…
Read MoreAlly Admits: Organized Labor ‘Works Against the Public’s Interest’ on Multiple Issues
Prop. 32 an unbalanced ‘reform’ plan – California Teachers Association Unhappy Californians Still Embrace the Failed Status Quo On September 17, the San Francisco Chronicle pleased the hierarchy of the California Teachers Association…
Read MoreA ‘Desperate Rearguard Action’ by a Forced-Unionism Partisan
An Activist Decision Striking Down Wisconsin’s Collective Bargaining Law On September 14, according to innumerable credulous media accounts, Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas finally accomplished for Big Labor what union…
Read More‘The Spectacle Was Depressing When One Considers What’s at Stake’
Chicago Strike Shows How Unions Stifle Reform Chicago Teachers Strike — A Postmortem – Public Sector Inc. Forum In Chicago, the Teachers’ Last Stand As this post is written on…
Read MoreWorkers Should Not Be Forced to Accept a Union’s Services
Unelected Unions: Why Workers Should Be Allowed to – InsiderOnline Well-intentioned critics of teacher union officials often complain that they favor the interests of educators over those of schoolchildren.…
Read MoreNone of the 13 States With the Greatest Total Public Debt Per Capita Has a Right to Work Law
State Budget Solutions’ third annual State Debt Report shows total … Just before Labor Day, the nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog group State Budget Solutions (SBS) issued its third annual report on state…
Read MoreBig Labor-Controlled Government Payrolls Still Bloated
‘Framing’ Prevents Needed Stimulus – Economic View – NYTimes.com Shiller on government jobs: who’s “framing” whom? – Public Sector In the 2012 elections, Big Labor’s #1 objective is ensuring that…
Read MoreSEIU Corporate Campaigns Include Tabloid Tactics
SEIU’s union organizers will not stop at almost nothing to gain their organizing ends. Perhaps most egregious of all is the way its “street demonstrations, †supposedly spontaneous grass-roots affairs…
Read MoreAFL-CIO and MoveOn Team Up on GOTV
While the Democratic National Convention was not a temptation this year for the AFL-CIO, the union council has apparently teamed up with MoveOn to commandeer a get-out-the-vote effort. How many…
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