Jack Dean is editor of PensionTsunami.org, formed to monitor developments in all three pension spheres nationwide — public employees, corporations and social security. PensionTsunami, like UnionWatch, is a project of the California Public Policy Center. Dean is a former newspaper editor and a past executive director of the Reason Foundation. He has been active in politics for more than three decades and currently serves as president of the Fullerton Association of Concerned Taxpayers.
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...
By Jack Dean
Recent reports on union activity from around the web through November 12, 2010: Super-sized pensions, and a doomsday scenario by Bob Sullivan, November 12, 2010, MSNBC In New York, a 44-year-old firefighter retires with a $101,000 a year pension, for life. Near Chicago, a parks commissioner quits and begins collecting a $166,000 pension – a...
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Recent reports on union activity from around the web through Oct. 26, 2010: Unions the Real Big-Money Culprits This Election Season By Mark McKinnon, The Daily Beast, October 24, 2010 The out-of-control big-money donors this fall aren’t the U.S. Chamber of Commerce types, as the White House would have you believe. Mark McKinnon on the...
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Recent reports on union activity from around the web through Oct. 19, 2010: County Caves to Union Threat By Troy Anderson, Daily News, October 19th, 2010 Despite learning Tuesday that Los Angeles County faces a $26 billion tab over coming decades to cover pension and retiree health care costs, the Board of Supervisors delayed pursuing...
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Recent reports on union activity from around the web through Oct. 12, 2010: The Paralysis of the State By David Brooks, New York Times, October 12, 2010 Sometimes a local issue perfectly illuminates a larger national problem. Such is the case with the opposition of the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, to construction of a...
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