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Fight Over the Future of Government Unions ‘May Be the Most Important Political Battle’ in the U.S. Today

Public Unions: The Largest Political Machine– Walter Russell Mead, TAI The perceptive public-policy and political commentator Walter Russell Mead has many good insights in a post today (linked above) for his blog on the American Interest web site. After recapping…

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Mike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable”

Mike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable” NEA hada total of 3,166,761 members of all types, of whom 2,807,332 were active and employed in the public school system. Be aware that these are…

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Larry Sand: The Nation’s Biggest Union Finds Itself in a Big Hole and Keeps Digging

With his impeccable insight, Larry Sand has tied up the problems with the NEA into a neat little package.   He references two of the most notable names in education reform scene today, Terry Moe and Mike Antonucci.     While Terry Moe’s…

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Labor Emancipation No Imposition on States’ Rights

FACT SHEET July 6, 2012 ‘Freedom Rests on Choice, and Where Choice Is Denied Freedom Is Destroyed as Well’ (Download .pdf file click here) S.2173 and H.R.2040, the National Right to Work Act, would not add a single word to…

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The Best Government Money Can Buy – The Top Union-Paid Politicians

Did you ever wonder where your taxpayer money goes, what union bosses do with all the forced dues they demand? US Action News examines public and private sector union political spending and the politicians who underwrite union power.

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No Wonder President Obama Is Having Trouble Formulating an Economic Growth Message

With Little to Say, Obama Eats Grits in Rust Belt   Last week, President Obama’s re-election campaign sent him on a two-day bus tour of northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, historically Democratic Rust Belt territory. Syndicated columnist Michael Barone (see…

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Pennsylvania Governor Corbett Avoids Union Boss Battle

Unlike Wisconsin Governor Walker, and Ohio Governor John Kasich, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has done little to alleviate the crushing taxpayer burden of government employee monopoly bargaining. Mike Wereschagin questions Pennsylvania Governor Corbett’s capitulation to union bosses in the Pittsburgh…

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Union Bosses Ignore Indiana Workers’ Mandate for Right to Work Law

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has helped Indiana workers to file amicus brief on behalf of the state of Indiana now that the AFL-CIO wolf is trying to blow the Right to Work Law down.  Asheesh Agarwal…

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Exclusive: Union Will Seek to Organize Airbus in Right to Work Alabama

While IAM bosses may try to organize Airbus workers in a few years, Alabama workers do NOT have to join or support a union in order to get or keep a job.   Ted Reed tells all in The Street .   “We have every…

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Is It Really So Hard to Distinguish Between ‘Union Members’ and ‘Union Nonmembers’?

Harold Meyerson: Thomas Jefferson’s view of equality under siege   As this blog has already observed, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Knox v. SEIU Local 1000 last month did not represent a dramatic departure from previous judicial rulings defining the constitutional limits…

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