Politicians Accelerate Chicago’s Race to Ruin
Chicago's financial crisis deepens due to reckless union-backed legislation increasing pension liabilities, with leaders failing to take corrective action.
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Is Congress Receiving the States’ Message? — ‘Collectivistic Style of Unionism . . . Is Way Out of Touch’
Job Growth Twice as Fast in Right to Work States — Voluntary Unionism Also Linked to More Rapid Compensation Growth
Government Should Not Collect Union Dues — Taxpayer-Funded Bureaucrats Ought Not Do Union Dons’ Job For Them
Union Bosses Smother Private Health Insurance — Since 2003, Coverage Down By 2.12 Million in Forced-Dues States
Monopoly Bargaining Benefits Union Bosses — But Productive Unionized Workers Chafe Under ‘Wage Ceilings’
Chicago's financial crisis deepens due to reckless union-backed legislation increasing pension liabilities, with leaders failing to take corrective action.
“As one anonymous MTA insider has acknowledged to Post reporter Nolan Hicks, the monopoly-bargaining privileges afforded by law to Mr. Simon and his cohorts make them so powerful that it’s ‘just easier to light more taxpayer money on fire than fix’ LIRR."
Since Big Labor-backed legislation repealing Right to Work protections for employees went into effect in early 2024, the state has gone from adding jobs to losing them.