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AFSCME Union Boss Marty Beil’s claim gets shot down by PolitiFact.com. Here’s the story: On June 14, 2012 the state’s highest-profile public employee labor leader, Marty Beil, talked pensions during an appearance on the liberal “Sly in the Morning” radio…
While ponying up only one fifth of the finances, SEIU union bosses will be providing untold millions of in-kind contributions to the Democrat Super pac, House Majority. Luke Rosiak, of the Washington Times, has the story: The partnership between the…
Constitutional law expert Erwin Chereminsky, in The ABA Journal, cites several cases won by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, comments on the importance of the Knox v. SEIU Supreme Court decision: Amid the blockbuster decisions of the…
Alabama governor on how they snagged Airbus- Washington… It’s impossible for any informed person to deny that there’s a robust and longstanding positive correlation between pro-Right to Work state labor policies and private-sector job growth. The positive correlation is evident…
Helping Workers RAISE Themselves Last month, Jim Hoffa effectively conceded that union bosses such as himself are standing in the way of higher compensation for many unionized employees. What rationalization, then, does he have left for retaining laws that authorize…
John Hayward, in Human Events Online,takes Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson to task for his failure to distinguish between coercion and voluntarism. Even Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor, which later merged with the Congress of Industrial…
Michael Giles and Vincent Vernuccio explain: Why Unions Don’t Want Workers to Earn More: The RAISE Act would allow employers to give individual workers pay increases without going through a union. Despite the potential benefits to union members, unions have…
From the point of view of union bosses, who now will no longer have free access to workers’ wallets: The Daily Caller Online, June 22, 2012 Having already experienced a continuous string of political setbacks at the state level, one…
Labor’s Got to Get Serious About Amending to Overturn ‘Citizens… Last Friday’s blog post on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Knox v. Service Employees International Union Local 1000 focused on just one of several interesting admissions in Justice Sam…
Idaho State School Superintendent Tom Luna’s efforts to curb teacher union bargaining and bring common sense to education reform provoked retaliation. From the Wall Street Journal Online, June 25, 2012 Called “Students Come First,” it was a package of legislation…