Posts Tagged ‘Government Employee Unions’
Federal Security Guard Union President Guilty of Theft, Fraud
Karl Horowitz, National Legal and Policy Center, has the story: On December 4, Gray-Burriss, founder-president of the National Association of Special Police and Security Officers (NASPSO), was found guilty by a jury in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on 18 counts, including six counts each for mail fraud and embezzlement, in connection…
Read MoreNew York City Union Officials Fiddle While Their Members Must Be Burning
Another example of union bosses’ contempt for their rank and file: Many teachers depend upon their union officials to negotiate on their behalf, and are left high and dry while union officials party and live a life of luxury. Carl Campanile and Yoav Gonen have the story in the New York Post: While city public-school…
Read MorePennsylvania Union Bosses Fight Privatization
Pennsylvania United Food and Commercial Workers union officials are opposing legislation that will privatize liquor sales in Pennsylvania. Government control of liquor has been a plum victory for union bosses.They have given thousands in forced dues to both Republican and Democrat lawmakers to keepcarrying water for forced unionism.Eric Boehm, reason.com, has the story. The United…
Read MoreMichigan Governor Snyder Curbs Detroit Union Bosses’ Power
Michigan Governor Snyder’s passage of a bill allowing an emergency manager to be appointed,curbs Big Labor’s monopoly bargaining power. Chad Livengood and Sean D. Lewis have the story in the Detroit News: The new law is called Public Act 436 of 2012. Emergency managers would have the ability to reject, modify or terminate labor union…
Read MoreGovernement Union Bosses Pocketing Taxpayers’ Paychecks
An Investors Business Daily editorial examines taxpayer-funded union boss salaries, who turn around and who these bosses are supporting. Taxpayers are forking out $4.8 million for 35 union officials at the Department of Transportation. But the beneficiary here isn’t the taxpayer, it’s President Obama, who is raking campaign cash from these unions. Unlike the average…
Read MoreCalifornia’s Monopoly Bargaining Debacle
It has long been suspected that California government employee unions wield enormous power, with glittering, golden retirement plans. Ivan Osorio analyzes a report by Bloomberg reporters on openmarket.org. This isn’t a case of a handful of isolated incidents. The team of Bloomberg reporters found a pattern of fiscal irresponsibility characterized by: â– Lack of control in…
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 insidious leak, eventually government employee union monopoly bargaining will destroy the government’s ability to govern. So, the health benefit law allows – indeed calls for…
Read MoreRight to Work Improves Teacher Quality
James Marshall Crotty, Forbes magazine, makes an interesting observation: Because of the alleged audacity of passing a right-to-work law during the lame-duck session of the Michigan legislature, virulent – and occasionally violent – protests at the state Capitol in Lansing are drawing national media attention. However, this Forbes education contributor wonders: once all the hullabaloo…
Read MoreMostly Peaceful . . . Not
MLive’s pallid description of some of the violence that accompanied Michigan workers’ bid for freedom: The protest was mostly peaceful, but included state police in riot gear, a clash in which a tent used by right-to-work boosters was torn down, and at least three misdemeanor arrests — all against the…
Read MoreUnion Rep Has Ties to Healthcare and Lucrative Contracts
It’s not what you know, it’s how many close ties you have when you’re a union official. Dave Low, Executive Director of the California School Employees Association, and is in charge of an organization of other government union employees, Californians for Healthcare and Retirement Security. Records show that he was also a consultant to Blue…
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