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IBD Editors: Even if Obama did cook the jobs numbers, they still stink. Investor’s Business Daily States and selected areas: Employment status of the The latest monthly report by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on nationwide employment and…
Read MoreNH gubernatorial debate at New England College Maggie’s statement on the “Right to Work” vote – Maggie Hassan … Over the years, union-label politician Maggie Hassan, formerly the state Senate majority leader and now the 2012 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, has tried again…
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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 its estimates for total 2011 private-sector, nonfarm employment in the…
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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 months prior to Mr. Flynn’s May 26 announcement that he…
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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 (CTA/NEA) union by publishing an editorial denouncing Prop. 32, a…
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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 operatives had previously failed to do in state and federal…
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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 Friday afternoon, it appears that, by ordering the illegal strike…
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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. For several reasons, this is a flawed line of attack.…
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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 public debt, which calculates “the total amount of debt each…
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‘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 state and local government payrolls, of which 42% are under…
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