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What better way to relieve police and firefighter rank-and-file union members who are overworked? Send their union officials back onto the street. Camden, New Jersey’s mayor is putting a stop to “official time” for union officials on the city’s police…
10 Worst-Rated States for Retirement – AARP Best and Worst States for Retirement 2011 – Money Rates Recently, Institute Executive Vice President and Treasurer Mark Mix called to my attention a short article that was posted on the web site of the American…
First Amendment Equally Protects Rights of Independent-Minded Workers, Business Owners Dissenting Workers Should Be Free to Refuse to Bankroll ‘Messages . . . Favored by a Majority’ (Download Fact Sheet) Last month, in hismajorityopinion inKnox v. Service Employees International Union…
Jobs coming home http://bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=70&step=1&isuri=1&acrdn=1 If you relied on Capitol Hill politicians and union officials for all your information on manufacturing in the U.S., you might well believe it has been rapidly disappearing in recent years. But data from the…
“The Right to Work”, by Ray Stannard Baker, McClure’s Magazine … Limitations on violence under law tested anew … – The Buffalo News Last week a Bloomberg commentary by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, a history professor at Loyola University Chicago, steered curious readers…
Bill Hagarty writes about Tennessee’s Right to Work and other freedoms for both workers and businesses has boosted its place in the global market, as well as being the eighth state in recent job growth. Other states should sit up…
Public Unions: The Largest Political Machine– Walter Russell Mead, TAI The perceptive public-policy and political commentator Walter Russell Mead has many good insights in a post today (linked above) for his blog on the American Interest web site. After recapping…
Mike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable” NEA hada total of 3,166,761 members of all types, of whom 2,807,332 were active and employed in the public school system. Be aware that these are…
With his impeccable insight, Larry Sand has tied up the problems with the NEA into a neat little package. He references two of the most notable names in education reform scene today, Terry Moe and Mike Antonucci. While Terry Moe’s…
FACT SHEET July 6, 2012 ‘Freedom Rests on Choice, and Where Choice Is Denied Freedom Is Destroyed as Well’ (Download .pdf file click here) S.2173 and H.R.2040, the National Right to Work Act, would not add a single word to…