Conflicting Court Rulings on Retroactive Pension Boosts

By Editor
01/31/2011
The fact that pension finance is a relatively poorly understood area of employee compensation doesn’t let us off the hook to try to understand it. Certainly policymakers should have had a better understanding of what they were getting taxpayers into. During the bubble years of the internet and continuing right up until a couple of...

California Supreme Court Backs City over Union

By Editor
01/28/2011
In a ruling that has surprised the skeptics, California’s Supreme Court has affirmed the right of a city to lay off municipal workers to balance their budget. In the ruling, Justice Joyce Kennard said that under California law, “a local public entity that is faced with a decline in revenues or other financial adversity may...

California GOP Defectors Aid Unions

By Steven Greenhut
01/27/2011
The three Assembly members who joined with Democrats at a union-sponsored rally to oppose government cuts to In-Home Supportive Services — Jim Silva of Huntington Beach, Brian Nestande of Palm Desert and Paul Cook of Yucca Valley — didn’t betray their conservative principles. They never had any such principles. But they did betray the GOP...

Clark County Nevada Commissioner Confronts Firefighters Union

By Mike Shedlock
01/26/2011
Best wishes to Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak who is still justifiably after firefighters over fraudulent sick leave. Please consider Sisolak calls for investigation of firefighter sick leave: In 2009, Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak began looking hard at Fire Department costs. He had received a deluge of angry calls and e-mails from constituents wondering...

Union Watch Highlights

By Jack Dean
01/25/2011
How Public Unions Took Taxpayers Hostage By Fred Siegel, January 25, 2011, The Wall Street Journal The turbulent years of the 1960s and ’70s are best known by the headline-grabbing civil rights and women’s rights movements. But there was another “rights” movement, largely overlooked, that has also had a profound effect on American life. The...

State Politics and Right to Work Laws

By Edward Ring
01/24/2011
January 24, 2011 While much analysis has been forthcoming on the impact of the November 2010 election on the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, it is harder to get compiled information on how that election affected political control of 50 states. An excellent source for this much larger body of data comes from...

State Politics & Right-to-Work Laws

By Editor
01/24/2011
While much analysis has been forthcoming on the impact of the November 2010 election on the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, it is harder to get compiled information on how that election affected political control of 50 states. An excellent source for this much larger body of data comes from the American Legislative...

National Education Association: Big Union Bully on the Left

By Larry Sand
01/24/2011
While anti-bullying programs for students are currently in vogue in our nation’s schools, teachers need to recognize that they too are being victimized. As president of the California Teachers Empowerment Network (CTEN), I talk to people about teachers and education all the time. Politically speaking, most people think that teachers are to the left of...

TAGS: California Teachers Empowerment Network, Mike Antonucci, National Education Association

South Carolina Governor Confronts Unions

By Mike Shedlock
01/21/2011
Congratulation go to South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley who made comments about South Carolina being a right-to-work state, and in the process essentially told unions to go to hell. She was a bit more polite than that, but not by much. Please consider Union sues over Haley’s remarks about Boeing plant South Carolina Gov. Nikki...

How Unions Harass Businesses to Unionize

By Dave Bego
01/20/2011
Bob owns a small business that provides heating and air conditioning service and installation. He employs approximately 10 staff and workers and is located in Anywhere, USA. Bob has been in business for over 20 years, strong relationships with his employees, and enjoys a good reputation in the community. Bob has always focused on running...