Posts Tagged ‘government unions’
Phyllis Schlafly – Union Political Spending in 2012
Phyllis Schlafly, on moralliberal.com comments on union bosses’ use of forced dues to elect President Obama to his second term. Today we are inaugurating Barack Obama for his second term. Let’s talk about just one of the reasons he won his campaign for reelection. The union called SEIU was the top spender on Democratic campaigns this year,…
Read MoreKansas Union Members Are Still Getting a Bum Deal
Big Labor’s power in many states is so great it can make the government do its bidding, and make it virtually impossible for workers to resign their union membership. Even in Kansas, a Right to Work State, where workers have the freedom to refrain from union support of membership, union bosses have rigged an agreement…
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 MoreBig Labor-Controlled Government Payrolls Still Bloated
‘Framing’ Prevents Needed Stimulus – Economic View – NYTimes.com Shiller on government jobs: who’s “framing” whom? – Public Sector In the 2012 elections, Big Labor’s #1 objective is ensuring that state and local government payrolls, of which 42% are under union monopoly-bargaining control, continue to grow at the expense of private-sector payrolls, of which fewer…
Read MoreLabor Day is for Taxpayers, Not Unions
Matthew Brouillette, president and CEO of The Commonwealth Foundation, recognizes government employee labor unions’ forced dues power and Labor Day in the Patriot News: As the sun sets on a sizzling summer, celebrations with family and friends will mark another Labor Day. But few citizens will recall or cheer the nationwide railroad union strike, featuring…
Read More“How Government Unions control America and rob Taxpayers Blind”
A shocking look at the underside of government employee unions, Brad Decker interviews Mallory Factor on his best-selling book “Shadowbosses,” in The Washington Times. His new bestseller, “Shadowbosses,” shines the light on how “government unions control America and rob taxpayers blind.” You can find out more about Mr. Factor’s work at: malloryfactor.com. Decker: Your new…
Read MoreGreater Union Density = Bigger Government
The huge cost of public unions In an op-ed published a few days ago in the New York Daily News, California Polytechnic State University economics professor Michael Marlow reports on research he recently completed that found “a solid empirical relationship between public sector unions’ concentration and the size and cost of government . . .…
Read MoreGovernment Union Bosses Target Nevada’s Beleaguered Private Sector
Unions push a new tax on Nevadans – Las Vegas Review-Journal Government union bosses wield a lot of clout in Right to Work Nevada. In 2011, according to an analysis by labor economists Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson, 47.1% of public employees in the Silver State were subject to union monopoly bargaining in the workplace.…
Read MorePresident Obama Oblivious to the Truth About Unionized Government Payrolls
Clueless appeal to aid govt workers Just a little over two years ago, the U.S. Labor Department reported that, for the first time ever, a majority of unionized workers across America are now government employees. As recently as 1980, less than a third of all employees subject to “exclusive” union representation worked for the…
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