Posts Tagged ‘Government Employee Unions’
Another End Run Against Michigan Right To Work Averted
Saginaw County government employee union officials were defeated by County Commissioners in their desperate attempt to avoid the expansive reduction in membership and forced dues expected when Michigan’s Right to Work Law is finally implemented this month. The proposition was the same as the Wayne State Univeristy and the Taylor School District one: give us…
Read MoreCash-strapped cities seized by new management
Michigan cities are recruiting “Emergency Mangers” in an effort to deal with runaway monopoly bargaining agreements and shrinking budgets. Will this practice become more widespread as government employee union officials continue their quest for more and more taxpayer dollars? Ned Resnikoff has the story on MSNBC.com Imagine if a democratically-elected mayor was suddenly neutered and…
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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 National Right to Work Foundation (NRTWF) filed its petition for writ of mandamus or prohibition with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals , seeking an…
Read MoreMaine Democrat Signs Up For Right To Work Law
Maine Democrat,Terry Hayes, has signed on toa bill which would allow all Maine government employees the freedom of choice, the right to join, or refrain, from union membership.Matthew Stone has the story in the Bangor Daily News. Rep. Terry Hayes, D-Buckfield, will be the only Democratic co-sponsor of the bill, LD 786, proposed by Rep.…
Read MoreLarry Sand: If unions do so much for members, why bully?
Larry Sand, President of California Teacher Empowerment Network, has hit the nail on the head once again. What other private organization (and unions are private organizations) can thrust itself into a government operation and take over control of the government’s employees? Thank you, Larry, for telling the truth about compulsory unionism! Read Larry’s Op Ed…
Read MoreObama’s Big Labor Payback Includes Federal Employees
The Washington Examiner’s Sean Higgins examines the Executive Order the president signed in 2009 which created a council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, which gives federal government employee union officials a conduitto government agency heads over and above that of the monopoly bargaining contract. This is not only a Big Labor payback, butan unheard of ploy…
Read More“It’s the Union’s Job to Encourage Unrest, Discontent and Unhappiness . . .”
Elijah Grajkowski,Wisconsin public school teacher, explains why he would rather teach in freedom. Read his entire story in the Journal-Sentinel Online. If the teachers union is as wonderful as it claims, then it should have no problem attracting members, without the need to force teachers to join. For years, I have chosen not to be…
Read MoreThe Pension Fund That Ate California
Steve Malanga tells the story of the largest government union pension fund – CalPERS, in the City Journal. After spending years dogged by unpaid debts, California labor leader Charles Valdes filed for bankruptcy in the 1990s–twice. At the same time, he held one of the most influential positions in the American financial system: chair of the investment committee for…
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 employees are union members, and the largest of those unions is the American Federation of Government Employees, an AFL-CIO affiliate that saw a 43 percent…
Read MoreUnion Bosses “. . . Continue to Lose the Loyalty of the American People.”
An Investors Business Daily editorial comments on the continued decline in union membership numbers. The long slide continues in the private sector, and now even public-sector union ranks are shrinking. A friendly White House can’t save a movement that prices its members out of the market. But after seeing the latest union membership data, labor…
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