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Federal Court of Appeals Upholds Stripping of Collective Bargaining Rights of Public Unions

Those looking for excellent news in the midst of a clearly-souring global economy can find it in Wisconsin, where a Federal appeals court upholds Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s restrictions on public unions A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s contentious law stripping most public workers of nearly all of their collective...

By Mike Shedlock

Union Watch Highlights

Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Another Walker Vindication: Government unions lose in court again Editorial, January 22, 2013, Wall Street Journal The last few years haven’t been great for limited...

By Jack Dean

How Public Sector Unions Are Winning the Cyberwar

Earlier this month leaders of the Obama reelection campaign announced the formation of a permanent advocacy organization called Organizing for Action that will enlist his supporters to fight for his policy agenda. The creation of this organization should come as no surprise, since the two key prerequisites for its existence are already in place. (1)...

By Edward Ring

Union Watch Highlights

Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Entertainment executives, unions join to promote Greuel candidacy By Michael Finnegan and Maeve Reston, January 15, 2013, Los Angeles Times The group, Working Californians, is...

By Jack Dean

How Big is California’s “Wall of Debt”?

When California Governor Jerry Brown unveiled his latest state budget, he explained that as the budget begins to generate surpluses, the state will finally begin to dismantle the “Wall of Debt” that has been accumulating. Whether or not Gov. Brown’s budget will generate surpluses, this year or any time soon, is an open question. But...

By Edward Ring

Union Watch Highlights

Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. Dan Walters: California farm labor law still a hot issue By Dan Walters, January 8, 2013, Sacramento Bee Jerry Brown’s major achievement in his first...

By Jack Dean

Public Sector Unions vs. Local Politics

It is no secret that the political strategy of America’s public employee unions, funding the campaigns of state legislators who uncritically pass compensation packages, work rules, and mandates favoring their members, now threatens the solvency of California, Illinois, Rhode Island, and many other states. A recent study by researchers at Boston College for the Wall...

By Lewis Andrews

Union Watch Highlights

Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. A Tough Year For Unions, With Few Bright Spots Ahead By NPR Staff, December 30, 2012, WGBH Radio/Boston This year was a tough one for...

By Jack Dean

The Special Privileges And Exemptions of Public Sector Unions

In the recent election of November 2012, California ballot Proposition 32 was defeated by voters 54% to 46%. One of the provisions in Prop. 32 would have required public sector unions to ask their members for political contributions on an “opt-in” basis. Currently, public sector unions in California collect hundreds of millions of dollars of...

By Editor

NLRB December Rulings Further Erode Rights of Workers

Once again President Obama’s illegitimate recess appointees took matters into their own hands in order to resuscitate Big Labor’s Gasping Dinosaurs by priming the union money pump at the expense of the union members themselves. The President’s re-election has emboldened the Rogue NLRB agenda to achieve card check (see Card Check through Regulation vs. Legislation)....

By Dave Bego

How Michigan’s Government Unions Tried to Achieve Absolute Power

Editor’s Note: Outside of Michigan, the attention that their November ballot initiative “Prop. 2” garnered was minimal compared to the national spotlight that has shone ever since their legislature turned them into a right-to-work state. But the two events are inseparable. And while right-to-work simply allows workers to choose whether or not they may wish...

By Vincent Vernuccio

Union Activist Threatens Michigan Governor

Courtesy of the Weekly Standard, please check out the following union thuggery: Pro-Union Activist Threatens the Michigan Governor: ‘We’ll Be at Your Daughter’s Soccer Game’ A speaker at a protest against Michigan’s right-to-work legislation said that Republican governor Rick Snyder will “get no rest” from pro-union activists if Snyder signs the bill into law. “Just...

By Mike Shedlock

Union Watch Highlights

Here are links to the top stories available online over the past week reporting on union activity including legislation, financial impact, reform activism, etc., from California and across the USA. California Nurses Association to Strike on Christmas Eve at Nine San Francisco Bay Area Hospitals By Megan Perasso, December 18, 2012, Imperfect Parent The California...

By Jack Dean

“Unite Here” Union Becomes San Diego’s Leading Environmental Organization

According to its national web site, UNITE HERE represents workers in the hotel, gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, distribution, laundry, and airport industries. But one might conclude, after looking at the public activities of UNITE-HERE Local Union No. 30 in San Diego, that UNITE HERE is actually an environmental organization, marketing itself as a much more aggressive alternative...

By Kevin Dayton