The Hill reports that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney expressed disappointment with the Chicago’s teachers union strike. “I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith…
The Hill reports that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney expressed disappointment with the Chicago’s teachers union strike. “I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith…
Nearly 30,000 public school teachers and support staff represented by the Chicago Teachers Union have vowed to walk off the job starting at 12:01 a.m. on Monday if an impasse in contract talks with the city is not broken. The…
Nearly 30,000 public school teachers and support staff represented by the Chicago Teachers Union have vowed to walk off the job starting at 12:01 a.m. on Monday if an impasse in contract talks with the city is not broken. The…
A whistle-blower in Illinois contends that state union bosses forced government workers to attend a political rally with Nancy Pelosi and Jesse Jackson, Jr., the Daily Caller reports. According to the whistle-blower, 76 employees of an Illinois state agency were forced to engage…
A new report highlights a striking example of Big Labor’s strength at the local government level: the states of Pennsylvania, California, Illinois and Nevada have all exempted unions from the state’s own anti-stalking laws, the Washington Examiner reports: The report, titled Sabotage, Stalking…
Once again, the teacher’s union veneer of “doing it for the children” is once again ripped off in Chicago was the teachers’ union approve a 10 day strike notice. The boss of the union, Karen Lewis, can use this to…
Once again, the teacher’s union veneer of “doing it for the children” is once again ripped off in Chicago was the teachers’ union approve a 10 day strike notice. The boss of the union, Karen Lewis, can use this to…
The Chicago Tribune has published a remarkable editorial about the depth of coercive unionization has taken hold among government employees in the state: Across the country, union membership has plunged during the last few decades. Just 6.9 percent of the private-sector workforce is in a labor union today. Organized labor is stronger in the public sector, with unions representing 37 percent of the government workforce. And then there is Illinois. Try to find a state worker who isn't in a union. It's almost impossible. Nearly 96 percent of the state government workforce is unionized. Yes, almost everybody. Bosses, middle managers, front-line workers. Gov. Pat Quinn exacerbated the situation by cutting an election-year deal in 2010 with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The deal guaranteed union workers would not be laid off through June 2012. That meant nonunion workers got stuck with forced furlough days, layoffs and no pay raises. In some cases, they watched the union employees who worked beneath them pass them up on the pay scale. (Recall that, as the ink was drying on this agreement, AFSCME rewarded Quinn with its election endorsement. Don't you love coincidences? Those moments when like-minded people find one another?)