California is run for the Rich, the Poor, and the Public Employees

By Steven Greenhut
04/30/2012
A new USC study pointing to a much-slower population growth rate in California has been greeted by demographers and urban planners as good news, in that it supposedly gives our state’s leaders a little breathing room to plan better for the future. The rate of growth has slowed to about 1 percent a year, the...

TAGS: Joel Kotkin

Public Sector Unions are Bankrupting Illinois

By Mike Shedlock
04/27/2012
Governor Pat Quinn rammed through the largest tax hikes in Illinois history last year. On January 13, 2011, Governor Pat Quinn signed off on a 67% hike in personal income taxes and a 46% hike in corporate taxes. The result is not what the governor thought. Businesses have fled, more have threatened to leave and...

Congress Clashes with NLRB

By Dave Bego
04/27/2012
President Obama’s Rogue NLRB, driven by Chairperson Mark Pearce and the President’s radical recess appointees, have encountered serious roadblocks the past several weeks as they continue their quest to achieve EFCA Through the Backdoor (see Labor Board Chief to Push Union Organizing Rules). This past week, the GOP Senators pushed back when they announced they are Suing...

TAGS: card check, Neutrality Agreement, NLRB

Union Watch Highlights

By Jack Dean
04/24/2012
UAW weighing GE protest By Bryce G. Hoffman, April 24, 2012, The Detroit News The United Auto Workers will join other labor unions and activist organizations on Wednesday in what is being billed as a major protest aimed at disrupting General Electric Co.’s annual shareholders meeting — part of a nationwide effort, called the “99...

The Tragic Consequences of Social Justice Education

By Larry Sand
04/24/2012
The president of the National Education Association continues to promote ideas that are anti-American and are turning our kids into progressive, anti-wealth, equality-obsessed robots. Last week, the drone-like National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel gave a talk at the annual gathering of the Nebraska State Education Association. He unleashed the same tired old class...

TAGS: Bill Ayers, Dennis Van Roekel, Kyle Olson, National Education Association, occupy movement, social justice

San Jose’s Pension Initiative will be a National Bellweather

By Steven Greenhut
04/23/2012
San Jose union officials are celebrating a decision last week by the Sixth District Court of Appeals, which struck some city-drafted language from a June ballot measure designed to reduce pension benefits for newly hired city workers and require existing workers either to pay more for their current pension plan or switch to a lower-benefit...

TAGS: San Jose mayor Chuck Reed

Employees Revolt Against Forced Unionism

By Dave Bego
04/19/2012
Emboldened by President Obama and his recent recess appointments to the Rogue NLRB the SEIU appears to be stepping up its patented Persuasion of Power. The SEIU’s “persuasion of power” is projected through its notorious Corporate Campaigns is vividly chronicled in my new book, The Devil at Our Doorstep. In simple terms, the SEIU’s corporate campaigns are...

TAGS: corporate campaigns, Neutrality Agreement

Union Watch Highlights

By Jack Dean
04/17/2012
Wisconsin property tax bills fall as Scott Walker’s reforms start to kick in Editorial, April 17, 2012, Wall Street Journal The public employee unions and other liberals are confident that Wisconsin voters will turn out Governor Scott Walker in a recall election later this year, but not so fast. That may turn out to be...

NEA Greed Machine is in Overdrive

By Larry Sand
04/17/2012
Tax Freedom Day is April 17th. Freedom from teacher union extortion? To be announced. The National Education Association has thrown itself full force into the “corporate loophole” demagoguery campaign. According to the NEA, children are being victimized by avaricious corporate types who don’t pay their fair share of taxes. The NEA exhorts the American people...

TAGS: American Federation of Teachers, corporate greed, Mike Antonucci, National Education Association, RiShawn Biddle, teachers unions