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Prop. 32 an unbalanced ‘reform’ plan – California Teachers Association Unhappy Californians Still Embrace the Failed Status Quo On September 17, the San Francisco Chronicle pleased the hierarchy of the California Teachers Association (CTA/NEA) union by publishing an editorial denouncing Prop. 32, a…
An Activist Decision Striking Down Wisconsin’s Collective Bargaining Law On September 14, according to innumerable credulous media accounts, Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas finally accomplished for Big Labor what union operatives had previously failed to do in state and federal…
Chicago Strike Shows How Unions Stifle Reform Chicago Teachers Strike — A Postmortem – Public Sector Inc. Forum In Chicago, the Teachers’ Last Stand As this post is written on Friday afternoon, it appears that, by ordering the illegal strike…
Unelected Unions: Why Workers Should Be Allowed to – InsiderOnline Well-intentioned critics of teacher union officials often complain that they favor the interests of educators over those of schoolchildren. For several reasons, this is a flawed line of attack.…
State Budget Solutions’ third annual State Debt Report shows total … Just before Labor Day, the nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog group State Budget Solutions (SBS) issued its third annual report on state public debt, which calculates “the total amount of debt each…
‘Framing’ Prevents Needed Stimulus – Economic View – NYTimes.com Shiller on government jobs: who’s “framing” whom? – Public Sector In the 2012 elections, Big Labor’s #1 objective is ensuring that state and local government payrolls, of which 42% are under…
SEIU’s union organizers will not stop at almost nothing to gain their organizing ends. Perhaps most egregious of all is the way its “street demonstrations, ” supposedly spontaneous grass-roots affairs organized by the rank and file, are, in reality, carefully…
While the Democratic National Convention was not a temptation this year for the AFL-CIO, the union council has apparently teamed up with MoveOn to commandeer a get-out-the-vote effort. How many millions in forced dues will be funneled into this effort…
Rank and file Boilermakers deplore their bosses’ corruption, and the Labor Department’s protracted investigations. Documents obtained by The Star implicate union bosses in pension fund losses by every sort of method possible: nepotism, preference given to family members, excessive monetary…