Posts Tagged ‘Monopoly Bargaining’
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 MoreCorporate Campaign Gamble
UNITE/HERE union bosses allegedly sent letters to Trump casino customers urging them to shun the casino shortly before the casino’s management asked for the collective bargaining agreementto be cancelled. Wayne Parry has the story on Fox Business News. A bankruptcy judge in Delaware will consider a request Wednesday by Trump Entertainment Resorts to force Local…
Read MoreWEAC’s Not the Only One
Apparently other Wisconsin public sector unions are reeling from the curtailment in the scope of monopoly bargaining (Act 10), as reflected in the staggering membership losses experienced by other public sector unions. Robert Samuels comments in the Washington Post. Walker had vowed that union power would shrink, workers would be judged on their merits, and…
Read MoreNevada Group’s Top 10 Labor Reforms
Nevada Policy Research Institute lists its top 9 Labor Law Reforms for 2015. Geoffrey Lawrence, Director of Research and Legislative Affairs, published the list of 9 labor law reforms that directly address union power in Nevada. At the forefront of that last component will be changing the state’s collective-bargaining process for government workers in ways…
Read MorePhiladelpia Teacher Union Monopoly Contract Cancelled
In an effort to improve underperforming schools, the Philadelphia school district has cancelled the monopoly bargaining contract with teachers in that district. Predictably, teacher union officials are grousing about the cancellations, but principals are loving it. Larry Sand, President of California Teacher Empowerment Network, and teacher union expert, has the story in heartland.org. The teachers…
Read MorePro-Union Monopoly New York Times Editors Flunk Constitutional Law
It can’t be a very common thing for the editors of the New York Times opinion pages to sound the alarm about a “dangerous” federal lawsuit that hasn’t even been heard yet. But the rabidly pro-Big Labor Times editors are evidently so upset about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling this past summer in Harris v.…
Read MoreNILRR Clips August 1, 2014
Labor leaders say from now on union organizing will be different People’s World Online, July 31, 2014 When he came out of a closed door session of the council here July 30 Larry Cohen, the chair of the AFL-CIO’s organizing committee, said that from here on out union organizing is going to take on a…
Read MoreClipsheet Harris V. Quinn July 3, 2014
High Court’s Labor Ruling Likely to Weaken Union Clout in More States NewsMax Online, July 1, 2014 Messenger pointed out that two specific groups that were the targets of such “unionization schemes” are now protected. “The first group are personal-care providers,” he told Newsmax, “who provide home personal care to disabled, chronically ill, or elderly…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clips June 13, 2014
NASA Employee Given the Runaround by Own Union Washington Free Beacon, June 11, 2014 Walsh and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTWLDF) are now fighting to overturn the technicality that eliminated the possibility of an election. Walsh’s attorney, Bruce Cameron, filed a brief to the three-member FLRA challenging the regional director’s decision.…
Read MoreMissouri UFCW Boss’s Apologia For Forced Unionism Misrepresents the Facts
A long article appearing in the Columbia Missourian yesterday (see the link below) about grass-roots efforts to make Missouri America’s 25th Right to Work state is a mixed bag. Reporter Casey Bischel uncritically repeats several standard Big Labor canards regarding government-promoted union monopoly bargaining in the workplace and the compulsory union dues and fees for…
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