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. Jerry Brown vs. the 99% By Allysia Finley, October 29, 2012, Wall Street Journal At the outset of his administration in 2011, California Gov. Jerry...
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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. Prop. 32 not unions’ only worry By Bob Egelko, October 22, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle Proposition 32, which would cripple labor unions politically in 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. Ex-Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan’s pension-reform plan irks unions By Rick Orlov, October 16, 2012, Daily News Former Mayor Richard Riordan on Monday took 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. The Imaginary Teacher Shortage By Jay Greene, October 9, 2012, Wall Street Journal Last week’s presidential debate revealed one area of agreement between the candidates:...
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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 Is Latest Stage for Election Battle Over Unions By Adam Nagourney, October 2, 2012, New York Times The battle to curb labor’s political clout...
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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. Big Labor and Moody’s Pounce on Ruling Against Wisconsin Union Law By Alex Newman, September 24, 2012, New American Big Labor and Moody’s Pounce on...
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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. Chicago can’t afford to pay healthy people not to work Editorial, September 18, 2012, Chicago Sun-Times Public employees who are permanently injured in the line...
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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. Chicago teacher strike poses test for labor as teacher unions see influence wane By Associated Press, September 11, Washington Post The massive teacher strike 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: California’s Pension Reform Legislation Allows Cities to Bypass Collective Bargaining By Ed Mendel, September 4, 2012, Calpensions Pension reform approved by the Legislature last week...
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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. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s pep talk for California Editorial, August 28, 2012, Orange County Register While California residents are justly proud of many elements...
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More than 55% of voters favor California’s Prop. 32 By Jon Ortiz, August 20, 2012, Sacramento Bee More than half of California voters favor Proposition 32, according to new poll by the California Business Roundtable and Pepperdine University, although the support for the measure has declined in the last two weeks. The decline is probably...
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California Lawmakers ready to make another sweet deal for Unions Editorial, August 14, 2012, Fresno Bee Sen. Darrell Steinberg, the president pro tem of the California Senate, says he’s still studying Assembly Bill 2451, Speaker John A. Perez’s multimillion-dollar benefit giveaway to powerful police and firefighter unions. Steinberg is late to the issue. The bill,...
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Unions are struggling to be heard By Chris Brennan & Catherine Lucey, August 7, 2012, Philadelphia Daily News It’s being called “Workers Stand for America” — 30,000 union members packed in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Saturday morning to say that any loss of power by organized labor is a danger to...
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Michigan ballot measure would enshrine unions’ right to collective bargaining in the state constitution By James B. Kelleher, July 30, 2012, Reuters After suffering a string of political setbacks in the U.S. industrial heartland, organized labor hopes Michigan voters will help turn the tide in a November election by supporting a state constitutional amendment for...
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