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.
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. The State of the Unions: With labor under full-scale attack, President Obama must speak up By Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President, February 12, 2013, In...
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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. Michigan Union Tell-All: A memo shows how unions hope to keep coercing worker dues Editorial, February 5, 2013, Wall Street Journal When Michigan became the...
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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. Can Latinos Save Labor Unions? By Kathleen Miles, January 28, 2013, The Huffington Post Facing an onslaught of anti-union legislation and the pressure of outsourcing,...
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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. 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...
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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. 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...
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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. 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...
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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. 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...
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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 Nurses Association to Strike on Christmas Eve at Nine San Francisco Bay Area Hospitals By Megan Perasso, December 18, 2012, Imperfect Parent 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. Michigan Labor Fight Cleaves a Union Bulwark By Monica Davey, December 10, 2012, New York Times With Democratic furor escalating and party leaders warning that...
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Motown’s Mental Breakdown: As unions and the city council resist reform, bankruptcy looms for Detroit Editorial, December 3, 2012, Wall Street Journal The political gospel according to Democrats is that the auto bailout saved Detroit. If only it were so. Alas, costly labor agreements have driven Motown like GM and Chrysler to disrepair. Perhaps the...
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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. Jeb Bush hammers teachers unions at education summit By Ben Wolfgang, November 27, 2012, Washington Times In the fight to reform American schools, former Florida...
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Righeimer: Call off Costa Mesa layoffs By Mike Reicher, November 20, 2012, Orange County Register Costa Mesa Councilman Jim Righeimer, who led the council’s efforts to privatize city services, is now calling for administrators to rescind pink slips issued to employees last year and to negotiate a deal with the city labor union, he told...
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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. Michigan unions may have misplayed their hand Editorial, November 13, 2012, Livingston Daily Michigan unions appear to have misplayed their hand last week, particularly when...
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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. Michigan’s Prop. 2 Is A Desperate Grab For Power By Government Unions By F. Vincent Vernuccio, November 5, 2012, Forbes Facing a sea of angry...
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