For What Are Taxpayers Thankful in 2014?

By Jon Coupal

12/01/2014

“In this season of Thanksgiving, please don’t blame taxpayers if they are distracted by the injuries being perpetrated against them by our political class.” These words were the preface of this column at the beginning of the holiday season in 2008 and, sadly, little has changed. In fact, in many ways taxpayers are worse off...

TAGS: public employee unions

Union Grip on California's Government Still Stronger than Ever

By Edward Ring

07/01/2014

Before anyone gets out the balloons and starts celebrating the Harris vs. Quinn decision too much, step back, sober up, and reflect on the scope of what happened, and where it puts us in this war. To use a WWII analogy, we just won the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe no longer dominates the skies...

TAGS: government unions, Harris vs. Quinn, public employee unions

Is California's Union-Controlled Legislature Waking up to Pension Problem?

By Jon Coupal

02/12/2014

Is it possible that the California Legislature is finally coming to grips with the public employee pension crisis? We certainly hope so. For years, our political leadership has behaved more like ostriches with their heads buried in the sand regarding the many billions of dollars of “unfunded liabilities” in California’s pension funds. Unlike most retirement...

TAGS: California Legislature, CalPERS, CalSTRS, Jon Coupal, public employee unions

Public Employee Compensation Reform is Vital

By Lanny Ebenstein

02/21/2013

Individuals who oppose comprehensive and fundamental reform of public employee compensation can only be considered to be in denial. Almost every government agency in the country is going broke right now. Almost all are cutting back services and reducing staff. Government is diminishing at the state and local levels before our very eyes. Our streets...

TAGS: public employee compensation, public employee unions

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Union Rhetoric

By Larry Sand

06/19/2012

After losing the Battle of Wisconsin, union members flee in droves and frantic union apologists resort to melodrama. Since losing the recall election in Wisconsin two weeks ago, it seems that there has been more than the usual lying, distortion and hyperbole coming from union bosses and their fellow travelers. Perhaps the most egregious example...

TAGS: Act 10, Dennis Van Roekel, Governor Scott Walker, National Education Association, public employee unions

CTA in Bed with the Occupy Crowd? LOL!

By Larry Sand

02/21/2012

The California Teachers Association is seeking cover in the Occupy Wall Street movement. The OWS crowd doesn’t understand that CTA and other public employee unions are a major part of the problem. Last week, part of my post concerned itself with the March 5th “Occupy the Capitol” protest being promoted by the California Teachers Association....

TAGS: California Teachers Association, capitalism, corporate greed, Occupy Wall Street, public employee unions

NEA: We are One. We are everywhere. We are at war.

By Larry Sand

04/05/2011

National Education Association declares war, but finding allies could be difficult. It’s hardly a secret that the National Education Association is an organization that has had its political way for the past 35 or so years. However, voters are fed up with the union’s attempts to keep a failing public education system from being reformed...

TAGS: National Education Association, public employee unions

No Citizen Left Untaxed

By Larry Sand

03/08/2011

NEA boss has it backwards when he claims that America cannot have a middle class without unions. Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, America’s largest union, claims, “In actions more fitting for comic book arch-villains, a new crop of state leaders have launched blistering attacks on working families disguised as budget and...

TAGS: Dennis Van Roekel, National Education Association, public employee unions

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