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Jonathan S. Tobin takes a look at the Illinois primary, where political novice Bruce Rauner, primary winner, intends to reduce government employee union power over the state government, in Commentary Magazine. In the past few years, public-sector unions have faced…
Earlier today, the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued its estimates for total annual 2013 private-sector payroll employment in the 50 states. The BLS simultaneously released an array of other jobs data for 2013 and revised data…
Pennsylvania union bosses have used a little-knownlegal exemptionto avoid prosecution for stalking and harassment. With the recent spate of violence in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania House has voted to remove that exemption, but notably no politicians from Philadelphia voting in favor…
Right-to-work bill dies in Kentucky House committee wave3.com, March 14, 2014 A Kentucky House committee’s vote killed right-to-work legislation for the rest of the year, but both sides say the issue will play a key role in November’s elections.…
State Represenaatative Sal Santoroexplains why Kentucky should pass a Right to Work Law in cincinnati.com. USA Today recently published a report entitled “The Most Miserable States in the USA” that, based on survey results, ranked Kentucky as the second most…
Authorities are investigating allegatons of threats and violence to workers as well as their children, in a year-long strike filled with violence and threats. Richard Read has the story on Oregonlive.com The National Labor Relations Board accused longshoremen this week…
Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel on union political spending and forced dues. It’s an extraordinary thing, in a political age obsessed with campaign money, that nobody scrutinizes the biggest, baddest, “darkest” spenders of all: organized labor. The IRS is muzzling…
The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs Wall Street Journal Online, March 6, 2014 It’s an extraordinary thing, in a political age obsessed with campaign money, that nobody scrutinizes the biggest, baddest, “darkest” spenders of all: organized labor.…