Organized Labor Battlefront Building In Illinois By Rich Miller, December 27, 2010, Southwest Suburban News Herald Organized labor is engaged in a furious multi-front legislative war in Illinois, and more skirmishes may be on the horizon. Trade and industrial unions are hoping to mitigate major damage from proposed workers compensation reforms. Teachers unions are trying...
A report posted online on December 27th, 2010 in the Chicago-based Southwest News Herald entitled “Organized Labor Battlefront Building In Illinois” offers a glimpse into what Democratic politicians in functionally bankrupt blue states are willing to consider. As author Rich Miller puts it, “The same unions that pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into Senate...
In a process that is repeating itself nearly everywhere in the United States, public sector unions are being confronted by incoming Governors and state legislators who have correctly identified them as the principal cause of inefficiency, corruption, and looming insolvency. Alabama’s current Republican Governor Bob Riley has just signed game-changing anti-corruption legislation that will, among...
Brown, prison union walking hand-in-hand By Dan Morain, December 19, 2010, The Sacramento Bee Jerry Brown is preparing to dance with the ones who brung him, specifically 31,000 members of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. Jilted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the union cozied up to Brown by spending $1.4 million to help elect him....
“Misclassification of workers” refers to the practice by some businesses of classifying and utilizing workers as independent contractors instead of employees in order to avoid payroll taxes and insurance, and in an effort to increase margins and/or reduce costs. In some industries, this is done for the purpose of obtaining new contracts by being the...
UnionWatch recently commissioned a survey of 800 voters in California to explore public support for measures to rein in the power of public employee unions. Here are the principal findings and conclusions. The interviews were conducted between September 29th and October 5th, 2010. The margin of error associated with the results is +/- 3.5%. To...
Union dues bill: Payback? By M.J. Ellington, December 12, 2010, Montgomery Times Many legislators say a bill prohibiting payroll deductions for organization dues and political action committees is the key to the special session on ethics reform. Others say the Senate bill in Gov. Bob Riley’s ethics reforms package is payback to the Alabama Education...
An recent report in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel entitled “Walker looks at showdown with state employee unions” claims Wisconsin’s incoming Governor Scott Walker will attempt to reduce public sector union prerogatives in order to make it easier to eliminate the state’s budget deficit. Based on the election results on November 2nd, Governor Walker may get some...
Labor unions and the Obama Administration are intent on implementing forced unionism and totalitarianism on the American people. Their plan is simple –overwhelm the system until it implodes. This classic technique is espoused in Saul Alinsky’s “Rule for Radicals” and is practiced regularly by union hierarchy during forced union corporate campaigns against businesses (See Get...
Recent reports on union activity from around the web through December 5th, 2010: Collective bargaining may get tweak in Ohio By Thomas Suddes, December 5, 2010, The Columbus Dispatch Ohio’s public-employee unions should fasten their seat belts: They may be in for rough ride in 2011, thanks to the clout -and long memories – of...
In the wake of the election on November 2nd, 29 of the 50 states have Republican governors (ref. Real Clear Politics), and they are all looking to California to woo companies. Can California live on green jobs and agriculture? Because that’s about all that’s going to be left under the combined weight of the global...
Earlier this month the Federal Labor Relations Authority ruled that 50,000 TSA workers are going to be permitted to vote on whether or not to join a union with full collective bargaining rights. To find out more about this, read John Fund’s November 26th Wall Street Journal commentary entitled “How to Make Air Travel More...
During the 2004 Presidential election there were allegations of voter fraud; the 2000 Presidential election was alleged to have been “stolen” by the Republicans. If you go further back in history, you can point to evidence the Democratic machine in Chicago manipulated election results to throw the 1960 Presidential election victory to Kennedy. A close...
There are those who may criticize outgoing Florida Governor Charlie Crist for issuing a posthumous pardon to rock legend Jim Morrison (ref. “Gov. Charlie Crist will pursue pardon of Jim Morrison,” St. Petersburg Times). We should all be so lucky. In Iowa, incoming Governor Terry Branstad, in a press release today, exposed a lame-duck move...