Posts Tagged ‘AFSCME’
A Baltimore jail scandal aided by union politics
Reading like a 1970’s report on the Teamsters, Charles Lane reports on AFSCME’s role in the Baltimore City Detention Center scandal, involving gangs and corruption, financed by mandatory dues checkoff…
Read MoreCan a Faithful Catholic Belong to a Union?
Can a Faithful Catholic Today Belong, in Good Conscience, to Any Large, U.S.-Based Union? By Stan Greer (click to download pdf copy) Few Democratic Party constituencies were quicker and more…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 22, 2013
Private sector union decline dates to the late-50s Washington Examiner Online, March 21, 2013 Slate columnist Matt Yglesias posted the above chart yesterday as part of a post arguing that …
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips – March 01, 2013
National Right To Work Foundation Seeks To Bar NLRB Action Due to NLRB’s Lack of a Quorum Seyforth Shaw, LLP, February 19, 2013 On Monday, February 11, 2013 the…
Read MoreGovernment Employee Unions Spending More on Political Action
Government employee unions are expanding their power with more and more political spending. The Wasington Examiner Watchdog Staff has the story. Approximately half of the federal government’s 2.1 million career…
Read MoreCounty declines to bargain with AFSCME for now
After passage of Wisconsin Act 10,Columbia County officials have agreed they have no mandate to bargain with the former exclusive representative, AFSCME. County officials, it seems, are finding it effective…
Read MoreConnecticutt Government Unions Take the Cake – and Everything Else
Connecticutt government unions and binding arbitration have conspired to deplete the state’s coffers through monopoly bargaining benefits. A stunning look at what taxpayers lose through binding arbitration. Zarchary Janowski has the…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Threaten Retaliation Over Right to Work Law — Again
Tom Gantert, Michigan Capitol Confidential, reports on union bosses’ latest threats to worker freedom inMichigan.  Al Garrett, president of Michigan AFSCME Council 25, and Larry Roehrig, secretary treasurer, laid out…
Read MoreMonopoly Bargaining and Ilinois’ Eve of Destitution
Paul Kersey, Illinois Policy Institute, explores the consequences of Illinois government union employee bargaining laws and how it will hamstring the government attempting to keep costs reined in. Like an…
Read More“There Will Be Blood”: Union Violence in the Age of Obama
From Michelle Malkin, a short overview on union violence, including the incidents which accompanied passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law. Not so many moons ago, President Obama urged…
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