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 little-noticed internal divide threatens liberalism By Michael Lind, June 25, 2013, Salon The debate over affirmative action reveals a split among liberals: the charity...
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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. Kansas Teachers Vote to Decertify Their Union James Sherk and Michael Cirrotti, June 18, 2013, Heritage Network Teachers in Deerfield, Kansas, just did something unusual—they...
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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 Supreme Court Rules Union entitled to addresses, phone numbers of all county employees By Jessica Karmasek, June 11, 2013, Legal News Online The California...
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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. Operation: Stop Bruce Karsh From Selling Tribune to the Koch Brothers By David Freelander, June 4, 2013, The Daily Beast The left’s biggest bogeymen could...
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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. IRS Actions Taken Against Americans Parallel Obama Labor Board’s Agenda Fred Wszolek, May 28, 2013, TownHall.com In recent days, Americans have been taken aback by...
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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...
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When a house is burning down, firefighters rush to save the occupants and put out the fire, often incurring personal risk in the process. Sometimes firefighters even die in the act of saving us. It’s a risk they accept when they take the job. That’s why we call them heroes. So why would firefighters participate...
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Today Michigan joined Indiana to become a recent addition to the U.S. states where joining a union cannot be a condition of employment. Last week the both houses of the Michigan legislature passed Senate Bill 116 which extended right-to-work protection to all private sector employees. Today they passed House Bill 4003 which extended right-to-work protection...
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One would think that Californians would know by now that bonds are nothing more than taxes plus interest. After all, when people were borrowing against their home equity to pay off bills and buy things, didn’t they learn the hard way that the money had to be paid back with interest? Borrowing IS spending. Bonds...
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One insufficiently expressed reason that government unions are fundamentally different from private sector unions is that nearly all entry level electoral positions are invisible to nearly all voters. They are relatively uncontested minor political offices where nobody knows the candidates, and often candidates have to be found. And who usually steps up as candidates? The...
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Earlier this week the Los Angeles Times ran an article entitled “Signature gatherers duel over Riordan pension initiative.” In the article’s introduction, the Times reporter quoted a voter opposed to the initiative, writing “The Tarzana grandmother thinks younger generations shouldn’t have to worry about a retirement tied to the ups and downs of the stock...
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“You talk like a man because of that flashy hardware you’re wearing. Strip it away and you’d shrivel down to boy size.” Excerpt from Shane, by Jack Schaefer There’s a reason that the growing nonpartisan coalition fighting for public sector union reform lost a battle last week in California. They are bringing boxing gloves to...
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Regardless of whether or not Barack Obama or Mitt Romney occupies the White House for the next four years, or Prop. 32 passes in California, or Prop. 2 passes in Michigan, there is a growing awareness among American voters, Democrats and Republicans, that public sector unions exercise too much influence in politics. Rather than reiterate...
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” George Orwell, Animal Farm Public sector unions, who have now raised over $50 million to defeat California’s Prop. 32, have called it the “Special Exemptions Act,” because it supposedly was deliberately written to exempt billionaires and certain business interests from its provisions. The...
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