Posts Tagged ‘government unions’
Will Government Union Bosses Break Their Pension Promises to Future Retirees, or Foist Massive Additional Burdens on Taxpayers?
As of last year, according to data compiled by economists Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson, state and local government employees across the U.S. were roughly seven-and-a-half times as likely to be unionized as their counterparts in the private sector. Government-sector union density is so high, in fact, that even the compensation plans of non-union public…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Have Frequently Favored Schemes to Underfund Public Employee Pensions
In a column appearing in RealClearMarkets this past week (see the link below), Steven Malanga of the Manhattan Institute cites a new study by Moody’s finding that from 2004 to 2012 unfunded liabilities in America’s biggest government pension funds nearly tripled to just under $2 trillion dollars. When confronted with such alarming data, the government…
Read More“Union Official” Time
A new report published by the Office of Personnel Management reveals over $1.5 million of taxpayer money are spent paying federal workers to conduct union official business. Misnamed “official time,” the only aspect of the time that is “official” is the fact that it is spent by union “officials”. Diana Furchtgott-Roth has the story in…
Read MoreNILRR: 12 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT UNIONS
Long after the pro-union monopoly National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was adopted in 1935, even strong supporters of this statute rejected the appropriateness of attempting anything analogous in federal, state, or local government. …
Read MoreNew Mexico Union Bosses Defend Alleged Violent Perpetrator
New Mexicotaxpayers are at the mercy of public employee monopoly bargaining agreements which forced Bernalillo County officials to keep a corrections officer whose victims were awarded almost $1 million as settlement to 3 of his alleged victims. The Editorial Board of the Albuquerque Journal provide the story. This editorial has been modified. An earlier version…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips, March 21, 2014
Bus company cuts ties with union in Spring Grove Hanover (PA) Evening Sun, March 14, 2014 More than half the drivers of Teamsters Local 776 signed a petition asking that they no longer be represented by the union, according to Aaron Solem, legal counsel for drivers circulating the petition. That, he said, is an acceptable…
Read MoreProminent Editor: Public Sector Bargaining Not in Public Interest
Charles Laneopposes public sector bargaining as well as forced dues. Charles Lane is a Post editorial writer, specializing in economic policy, financial issues and trade, and a contributor to the PostPartisan blog. In 2009 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing. He is the author of two books: “The Day Freedom…
Read More“Unintimidated” Blasts Monopoly Bargaining Practices
Former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating gives a polished review of “Unintimidated,” Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s book about the passage of Act 10. As Governor of Oklahoma, Keating proposed a state referendum on Right to Work, which passed in September, 2001. In his review, Keating concentrates on government employee monopoly bargaining as the root of the…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clips, July 26, 2013
NRTW Foundation starts Pgh ads Pittsburgh Post Gazette Online, July 23, 2013 The conservative National Right To Work Foundation is starting a decent-sized ad buy in the Pittsburgh market today that warns of union harassment in hospital work places. UPDATE: The NRTW takes issue with the headline of this post calling it “anti-union.” It…
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…
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