Archive for October 2012
President Obama ‘Believes He Can Take Ohio Voters For Fools’
Ohioans Are No Fools: Obama Did NOT Save Your … – Forbes Union members campaign for Obama on frontline of … – The Guardi It is a matter of conventional wisdom among media pundits that whichever candidate wins Ohio in this year’s presidential race will also emerge triumphant nationwide on November 6. The consensus view may or…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Push For Higher Taxes on Everyone Who Works For a Living
Annual State-Local Tax Burden Ranking (2010) – New York Citizens .. The Democratic Party’s Secret Attack On The Middle Class A background paper published this week by the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation shows there continues to be a strong, positive correlation between legally sanctioned compulsory union dues and heavier state and local tax burdens.…
Read MorePro-Forced Unionism Pundit: Families Are ‘Moochers’
Blue States Are From Scandinavia, Red States Are From Guatemala … Red State, Blue State – William Voegeli – National Review Online How can you tell it’s election time, and Big Labor candidates’ prospects are less than stellar? When bitter diatribes against “red” state voters such as New Republic Senior Editor Jonathan Cohn’s recent screed (see the first link…
Read MoreWill Anti-Right to Work Proposal 2 Backfire on Big Labor in Michigan?
Forget Republicans: Unions could destroy Democratsagain (Susan J. Demas column) As recently as 1980, a candidate for U.S. President could carry every single Right to Work state and still amass just 173 electoral votes, or nearly 100 fewer than the 270 needed to secure the nation’s highest office. But this year, a presidential candidate sweeping…
Read MoreSeven Lowest-Ranking States For Cost of Living-Adjusted Income Lack Right to Work Laws
Despite High Cost of Living, New Jersey Has Yet to Bump Up Its … Professional economists and ordinary Americans alike understand that the purchasing power of a dollar varies widely from state to state. That’s why employees who are considering relocating to another state and businesses seeking to hire capable out-of-state employees often consult the interstate cost-of-living…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Encumber Citizens With More Debt as Well as Higher Taxes
Total Debt as a Share of Annual Personal Income 50% Higher Than in Right to Work States (Click here todownloadFact Sheet) As many observers of Organized Labor have noted, there has been an enormous shift of power within union officialdom over the past few decades. As recently as 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected…
Read MoreCompetition Is Good For Business People and Workers
GUEST COMMENTARY: Theethical case for right-to-work For decades, federal and state labor laws that compel the individual employee to allow an unwanted union to negotiate his or her terms of employment have been defended by many of their proponents on the grounds that such statutes promote “democracy” in the workplace. This contention cannot withstand more…
Read MoreCollege Graduates and High School-‘Only’ Graduates Alike Are Flocking to Right to Work States
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_11_1YR_S1501&prodType=table States Perform Intercensal Estimates of the Resident Population by Sex and Age Forget Red vs. Blue — It’s Slave States vs. Free States in 2012 Federal data on the American workforce and employment and unemployment rates show that, even over the course of the most severe recession in decades and three years…
Read MoreMIX: Democratic Party’s Big Labor backbone
Right to Work top target for union allies By Mark Mix Tuesday, October 9, 2012 As President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden campaign for re-election, they feel compelled time and again to remind anyone who has gathered to hear them that America’s economic troubles started well before they got to the White House.…
Read MoreUnion Rep Has Ties to Healthcare and Lucrative Contracts
It’s not what you know, it’s how many close ties you have when you’re a union official. Dave Low, Executive Director of the California School Employees Association, and is in charge of an organization of other government union employees, Californians for Healthcare and Retirement Security. Records show that he was also a consultant to Blue…
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