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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…
Read MoreRetired 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreAFSCME 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…
Read MoreWhile 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…
Read MoreAlabama 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…
Read MoreHelping 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…
Read MoreJohn 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…
Read MoreMichael 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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