Posts Tagged ‘Wisconsin’
NILRR Weekly News Clips January 25, 2013
Pay Up or Get Sued Washington Free Beacon, January 23, 2013 Steven Cook, president of the Michigan Education Association, circulated an email to local union officials and staff instructing them to monitor revenue streams in light of the right-to-work laws, which are set to go into effect on March 27, 2013. The law allows…
Read MoreCounty declines to bargain with AFSCME for now
After passage of Wisconsin Act 10,Columbia County officials have agreed they have no mandate to bargain with the former exclusive representative, AFSCME. County officials, it seems, are finding it effective to sit down and talk with their employees, instead of working with union negotiators until the union is recertified as the sole representative, and County…
Read MoreFederal Court Upholds Wisconsin Governor’s Public-Sector Unionism Reforms
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix comments on federal court reaffirmation of Wisconsin’s government union reforms in Wisconsin, as reported in Green Mountain Scribes. With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, three Wisconsin public employees moved to intervene in…
Read More‘States Are Under No Obligation to Aid the Unions in Their Political Activities’
The Vindication Of Act 10 On January 18, a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit unanimously rebuffed a bid by Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC/NEA) and other union officials to get declared unconstitutional the Right to Work provision in Act 10, the public-sector labor-law reform adopted by Badger…
Read More2012 Was Not A Good Year for Big Labor
FrontPage.com Blogger Earl Capps reviews 2012 moves toward worker freedom, including the events in Wisconsin, and teh passage of Right To Work Laws in Indiana and Michigan. These political upsets were just the latest in a string of recent setbacks for organized labor which signify a growing erosion of the once-formidable power of labor…
Read MoreSEIU Organizer Allegedly Committed Voter Fraud in WI Supreme Court Election
Patrick Howley, of the Daily Caller, reports alleged voter fraud by a former SEIU organizer: An investigation by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office has led to a subpoena of SEIU’s Washington, D.C. headquarters and has implicated the prominent labor union in a voter fraud case that threatens to lead to criminal prosecution. Then-SEIU Senior…
Read More‘Responsible’ Big Labor Governor Drives Connecticut Into Fiscal Ditch
 E.J. Dionne Jr. -No glory for governors trying to do theright fiscal  Connecticut’s Fiscal Mess- National Review Online  Wisconsin budget projections show surplus  In early 2o11, journalistic apologists for compulsory unionism relentlessly vilified Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for identifying public policies promoting monopolistic government unionism as a key cause of his state’s structural budget deficit,…
Read MoreAFL-CIO Czar’s Threats to Punish Pro-Right to Work Politicians in Indiana, Wisconsin Prove to Be Empty
Our State Government Victory Nine-and-a-half months ago, on January 25, the Hoosier House of Representatives voted 54-44 to adopt H.B.1001, legislation making Indiana 23rd Right to Work state. On February 1, the Indiana Senate, which had already passed another version of the Right to Work legislation, 28-22, approved H.B.1001 and sent it GOP Gov. Mitch…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Encumber Citizens With More Debt as Well as Higher Taxes
Total Debt as a Share of Annual Personal Income 50% Higher Than in Right to Work States (Click here todownloadFact Sheet) As many observers of Organized Labor have noted, there has been an enormous shift of power within union officialdom over the past few decades. As recently as 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected…
Read MoreLarry Sand: The Nation’s Biggest Union Finds Itself in a Big Hole and Keeps Digging
With his impeccable insight, Larry Sand has tied up the problems with the NEA into a neat little package. He references two of the most notable names in education reform scene today, Terry Moe and Mike Antonucci. While Terry Moe’s book, Special Interest, predicts an earthquake which will completely change the fact of education reform,…
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