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According to a survey conducted in the 20 largest U.S. housing markets in early 2014, 10% of America’s 42 million would like to buy a home within the next 12 months. (See the first link below for more information.) And…
During the Great Depression, the U.S. Congress enacted many laws intended to foster economic recovery by restricting marketplace competition. Today, there is a wide consensus among historians, economists, and political scientists, including many who support the New Deal on the…
Two Wisconsin unions failed to file a timely petition to represent several government employees, as required by Act 10. TheWisconsin Public Relations Commission is sticking to its guns, and the law. Molly Williams has the story in Courthouse News. The…
Public Unions vs. the Public Wall Street Journal Online, January 15, 2015 The facts: Public-sector unions are not underdogs. . . As Mr. DiSalvo shows, public-sector unions are also rich. Taken together, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually…
As I noted in a post on this web site last week, the editors of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s (MJS) editorial page admitthat state Right to Work laws protect employees’ “freedom to choose whether to be in a union.” But judging…
FBI wiretaps reveal Ironworker boss Joseph Dougherty believed there were no limits to what could be done to stop employers from using nonunion workers. Joseph A. Slobodzian has the story on philly.com. Shortly after 10 a.m. on Nov. 5, 2013,…
Michigan Supreme Court justices closely question a United Auto Workers (UAW) labor attorney’s challenge to the Right to Work Law. Chad Livengood has the story in The Detroit News. Republican-backed Supreme Court justices drilled a labor union attorney during a…
Union bosses don’t like practicing what they preach, as many teacher union employees will attest. In a classic case of, “Do as I say, not as I do,” a Teamster employee has been fired for joining a union. LaborUnionReport.com has the…
In an effort to ensure the vote went their way, SEIU organizers harassed and intimidated adjunct workers during a recent organizing campaign. Matt Lamb has the story in collegefix.com. Adjunct faculty at Washington University in St. Louis voted narrowly to…
The U.S. Supreme Court is One Decision Away from Curtailing Union Power in California Fox and Hounds Online, January 9, 2015 Last year marked a legal turning point for California’s teachers’ unions and public employee unions across the nation. First,…