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The Best Government Money Can Buy – The Top Union-Paid Politicians

Did you ever wonder where your taxpayer money goes, what union bosses do with all the forced dues they demand? US Action News examines public and private sector union political spending and the politicians who underwrite union power.

No Wonder President Obama Is Having Trouble Formulating an Economic Growth Message

With Little to Say, Obama Eats Grits in Rust Belt   Last week, President Obama’s re-election campaign sent him on a two-day bus tour of northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, historically Democratic Rust Belt territory. Syndicated columnist Michael Barone (see…

Pennsylvania Governor Corbett Avoids Union Boss Battle

Unlike Wisconsin Governor Walker, and Ohio Governor John Kasich, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has done little to alleviate the crushing taxpayer burden of government employee monopoly bargaining. Mike Wereschagin questions Pennsylvania Governor Corbett’s capitulation to union bosses in the Pittsburgh…

Union Bosses Ignore Indiana Workers’ Mandate for Right to Work Law

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has helped Indiana workers to file amicus brief on behalf of the state of Indiana now that the AFL-CIO wolf is trying to blow the Right to Work Law down.  Asheesh Agarwal…

Exclusive: Union Will Seek to Organize Airbus in Right to Work Alabama

While IAM bosses may try to organize Airbus workers in a few years, Alabama workers do NOT have to join or support a union in order to get or keep a job.   Ted Reed tells all in The Street .   “We have every…

Is It Really So Hard to Distinguish Between ‘Union Members’ and ‘Union Nonmembers’?

Harold Meyerson: Thomas Jefferson’s view of equality under siege   As this blog has already observed, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Knox v. SEIU Local 1000 last month did not represent a dramatic departure from previous judicial rulings defining the constitutional limits…

Teamsters Trample Nonunion Member’s Rights in Oklahoma

Teamster bosses ignored a worker’s record, placing him at the bottom of the seniority list so union members could have first choice of the best work assignments after a company merger. The company’s wishes were ignored. The National Right to…

Temporary Restraining Order Issued Against Striking Teamsters in California

Striking Teamster bosses trample everyone’s rights with violence and intimidation. From the Press-Enterprise: The brew-maker has alleged that employees on multiple occasions have been harassed, intimidated and threatened with physical harm – even death. Steven Schneider, an attorney for Anheuser-Busch,…

Public Sector Bargaining Out of Control in Nevada’s Clark County

Clark County Education Association teacher union officials are running amok. Their shameless commandeering has school board officials looking like the chickens overrun by the fox, all flapping and squawking butunable to take control of the henhouse. The Las Vegas Review…

Government Motors: As GM shares near record low, taxpayer loss on bailout rises to $35 billion

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…

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