The Committee was forwarded an e-mail that, in part, read:
We have just learned from our contacts in Washington that the HELP committee [U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions] has postponed other scheduled business and will conduct a hearing on the [Craig] Becker [National Labor Relations Board] nomination next Tuesday at 4 p.m.
— Martin F. Payson
According to teacher union boss Randi Weingarten, the only reason to oppose monopolistic unions is because you’re a “fascist.” If you buy that, abolitionist, civil rights leader and journalist Frederick Douglass was a “fascist”!!
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."