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Government Motors: As GM shares near record low, taxpayer loss on bailout rises to $35 billion

Ed Carson, Investor’s Business Daily, tallies up just how much taxpayers have lost in the General Motors bailout:       General Motors (GM) shares fell to a fresh 2012 closing low of 19.57 on Monday. The stock hit 19 in mid-December, the…

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C-TEN President Larry Sand Blasts SEIU, Praises Knox Decision

Retired school teacher and former agency fee payor, Larry Sand, a noted author, works tirelessly on behalf of teachers who just want the freedom to teach. He serves as president of the California Teacher Empowerment Network, a non profit, non…

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Right to Work Foundation Recoups Fine for Nonunion Worker

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation supported Daniel Gudde, who just wanted to do his job. After completing his probationary period, Gudde resigned from the union, and was fined over $7,000 after returning to work and crossing the…

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Politifact Nixes Wisconsin Union Boss’ Claim of “Self-Funded” Pension Plan

AFSCME Union Boss Marty Beil’s claim gets shot down by PolitiFact.com. Here’s the story: On June 14, 2012 the state’s highest-profile public employee labor leader, Marty Beil, talked pensions during an appearance on the liberal “Sly in the Morning” radio…

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SEIU’s Moves Quickly to Offer Democrats Enormous In-Kind Contributions

While ponying up only one fifth of the finances, SEIU union bosses will be providing untold millions of in-kind contributions to the Democrat Super pac, House Majority. Luke Rosiak, of the Washington Times, has the story: The partnership between the…

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Chemerinsky: High Court’s Union Dues Case May Change the Political Landscape

Constitutional law expert Erwin Chereminsky, in The ABA Journal, cites several cases won by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, comments on the importance of the Knox v. SEIU Supreme Court decision:     Amid the blockbuster decisions of the…

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‘I Don’t Think There Is Any Question That Right to Work States Have an Advantage’

Alabama governor on how they snagged Airbus- Washington… It’s impossible for any informed person to deny that there’s a robust and longstanding positive correlation between pro-Right to Work state labor policies and private-sector job growth. The positive correlation is evident…

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Big Labor Senators Defeat Bid to Limit Monopolistic Unionism’s Harmful Impact on Talented Employees

Helping Workers RAISE Themselves Last month, Jim Hoffa effectively conceded that union bosses such as himself are standing in the way of higher compensation for many unionized employees. What rationalization, then, does he have left for retaining laws that authorize…

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Even Samuel Gompers Rejected Coercion

John Hayward, in Human Events Online,takes Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson to task for his failure to distinguish between coercion and voluntarism. Even Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor, which later merged with the Congress of Industrial…

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Collectivism Forever: Union Bosses Stymie Efforts to Raise Workers’ Wages

Michael Giles and Vincent Vernuccio explain: Why Unions Don’t Want Workers to Earn More: The RAISE Act would allow employers to give individual workers pay increases without going through a union. Despite the potential benefits to union members, unions have…

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