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Connecticutt Government Unions Take the Cake – and Everything Else

Connecticutt government unions and binding arbitrationhave conspired to deplete the state’s coffers through monopoly bargaining benefits. A stunning look at what taxpayers lose through binding arbitration. Zarchary Janowski has the story in Publicsectorinc.org. In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene in…

Right to Work States Experiencing Population Influx

Sean Higgins, Senior Editorial Writer, Washington Times, has the story. With the exception of Washington, DC and Oregon, people are moving to Right to Work states and leaving those without Right To Work laws. United Van Lines, the moving and…

Hilda Solis Failed Big Labor Bosses

Byron York, Washington Examiner, gives Hilda Solis the farewell she deserves after 4 years of using the Department of Labor to promote froced-dues, union boss mentality in an agency that is supposed to ensure all workers are able to work…

Can an Even-Handed Government Labor Policy Be Worse Than a One-Sided Government Labor Policy?

End “Collective Bargaining Rights” and “Right-to-Work” Laws   Philosopher Roderick Long, a libertarian himself, has defined libertarianism as “any political policy that advocates a radical redistribution of power from the coercive state to voluntary associations of free individuals.”  If this…

Federal Security Guard Union President Guilty of Theft, Fraud

Karl Horowitz, National Legal and Policy Center, has the story: On December 4, Gray-Burriss, founder-president of the National Association of Special Police and Security Officers (NASPSO), was found guilty by a jury in U.S. District Court for the District of…

New York University Law Professor Ignores the Facts in Anti-Right to Work Diatribe

‘Right to work’ is a misnomer   The shock waves sent out by longtime forced-unionism stronghold Michigan’s enactment of America’s 24th state Right to Work law in December are still reverberating. A growing number of apologists for Big Labor in…

Freelancers Unionize

Education Intelligence Agency proprietor Mike Antonucci, checks out the Freelancers’ Union. Created by a disgruntled labor lawyer, the Freelancers Union sports a membership of more than 170,000 nationwide, and is committed to “building a new form of unionism through creative,…

New York City Union Officials Fiddle While Their Members Must Be Burning

Another example of union bosses’ contempt for their rank and file: Many teachers depend upon their union officials to negotiate on their behalf, and are left high and dry while union officials party and live a life of luxury. Carl…

Michigan Workers Thankful for Right To Work

Tom Walker, timesherald.com, publishes comments from Michigan workers thankful for Michigan’s new Right To Work Law: “¢ Charlie from Burtchville Township: “I just want to thank Gov. Rick Snyder, state Sen. Phil Pavlov and the rest of the legislators who…

2012 Was Not A Good Year for Big Labor

FrontPage.com Blogger Earl Capps reviews 2012 moves toward worker freedom, including the events in Wisconsin, and teh passage of Right To Work Laws in Indiana and Michigan.   These political upsets were just the latest in a string of recent…

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