Illinois Governor Acts to Curb Power of Public Sector Unions By Monica Davey and Mitch Smith, February 9, 2015, The New York Times Gov. Bruce Rauner, the newly elected Republican who has often criticized public sector unions, took his first step toward curbing their power on Monday by announcing an executive order that would bar...
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Rauner says state must curb union powers, lower salaries February 3, 2015, Chicago Tribune Gov. Bruce Rauner said Monday that Illinois must curb government union powers and reduce spending on state employees’ salaries and benefits, stepping up what labor leaders said is an attempt to “vilify” workers ahead of the Republican’s first major policy speech....
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Public Sector Unions Gain Power, Lose Popularity, says Economist By Nancy Thorner, January 26, 2015, Heartlander Magazine While becoming more and more powerful, public sector unions are losing favor with taxpayers, Daniel DiSalvo, author of “Government Against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences,” said during a forum hosted by The Illinois Policy Institute Tuesday...
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State of the (Labor) Union: movement still counts on the White House By Jana Kasperkevic, January 20, 2015, The Guardian In his state of the union address tonight, President Obama is likely to talk about working families and their financial struggles. That means he is sure to give a nod to the nation’s labor unions, whose...
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Congestion at West Coast ports is getting even worse By Andrew S. Ross, January 13, 2015, SF Gate The seasonal rush is over and federal mediators are in San Francisco to help settle a contract dispute between shippers and longshoremen. The conditions at the congested Port of Oakland and other West Coast ports should be...
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‘Black Lives Matter’ but the union always wins By Chris Ladd, January 6, 2015, Houston Chronicle When Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke at the funeral of slain New York City police officers, thousands of officers in attendance turned their back on him. Since then they have engaged in a series of work stoppages. Their...
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Voters want Congress to protect employees from unions By Newt Gingrich and Rick Berman, December 16, 2014, Washington Post On Election Day, voters didn’t just rebel against President Obama. There was another pattern in the candidates they chose: Across the country, they picked pols who explicitly supported individual employee rights. This wasn’t just a canned...
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How Police Unions and Arbitrators Keep Abusive Cops on the Street By Conor Friedersdorf, December 2, 2014, The Atlantic When Frank Serpico, the most famous police whistleblower of his generation, reflected on years of law-enforcement corruption in the New York Police Department, he assigned substantial blame to a commissioner who failed to hold rank-and-file cops...
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Union-Sponsored Ads By SEIU Target ‘Anti-Immigrant’ Politicians By Melanie Trottman, December 2, 2014, Wall Street Journal One of the country’s largest labor unions launched television ads Tuesday to kick off what it vowed will be a long-term bid to hold what it calls “anti-immigrant” politicians accountable. The Service Employees International Union ads call on Latinos...
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A Landmark Retail Workers ‘Bill of Rights’ Passes Unanimously In San Francisco By Dave Jamieson, November 25, 2014, Huffington Post Amid growing concern over erratic work schedules, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed a first-of-its-kind law aimed at securing more stable hours for retail workers. Dubbed “the retail workers bill of rights,”...
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Court Agrees With Labor Unions: Giant Inflatable Rats Are Protected Speech By Elizabeth Nolan Brown, November 17, 2014, Reason In case you were wondering, displaying giant inflateable rats is protected by the First Amendment. Apparently a balloon rodent known as Scabby the Rat has been a labor union protest symbol since the ’90s. But New...
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In April 2013, the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), as noted on their website, “filed suit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of 10 California teachers and the Christian Educators Association International, challenging the constitutionality of California’s “agency shop” law, which violates the First Amendment by forcing...
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Unions wasted millions in Wisconsin, Michigan governor races By Jason Hart, November 11, 2014, Watchdog.org Union bosses dumped more than $7.5 million into the Wisconsin and Michigan governor races only to see both states’ labor-reforming incumbents re-elected. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, both Republicans, were two of the five governors publicly...
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California Teachers Brace For Impact By Blake Neff, November 4, 2014, Daily Caller The expensive race for California superintendent of public instruction may have the biggest education impact of any election Tuesday. Regardless of its outcome, the race will send shockwaves across the country and set the national tone for how strong unionized teachers remain...
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