Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and members of the state legislature will force thousands of home health care workers into unions if a judge allows the scheme to go into place. The legislature, in a blatant payback to the SEIU and AFSCME…
The liberal Minnesota Star Tribune takes state Democrats to task for trying to reward union bosses with the forced unionization of Minnesota child care providers: If a child care provider union comes to pass, some of the $207 million…
As even pro-forced unionism legislators in the Land of 10,000 Lakes acknowledge, in-home child care workers and in-home personal care attendants are not public employees. Nevertheless, government union bosses are demanding enactment of a bill empowering them to force thousands…
In New York, where big labor has its grips on power, union influence has prevented the Ultimate Fighting Championship from coming to the Empire State — which would bring jobs and needed revenue. The Wall Street Journal notes: The…
Across the U.S., thousands and thousands of civic-minded Americans with valuable knowledge and skills volunteer to share them with public schoolchildren in their communities. Typically, there is no legal requirement that such volunteer educators have full teaching credentials, and schoolchildren…
In a commentary published this Monday (see the link below), Washington Post writer Charles Lane observes that an “appalling” scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center offers Marylanders a lesson that “experience elsewhere has already taught many times”: Good governance…
James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation looks at big labor’s campaign to force private day care providers into paying union dues: As union membership has fallen, union organizers have become increasingly aggressive. They have now turned to organizing…
Jesse Jackson had no problem was marching alongside the International Socialist Organization to protest against Rahm Emanuel’s school closings. When a blogger asked about it, he was assaulted: The Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Police Department were obviously working in tandem last…
Regardless of their general opinion of Pennsylvania Democratic politician Michael Nutter, the people of Philadelphia undoubtedly agree overwhelmingly that, as their duly elected mayor, he should be able to address the city council without being drowned out by a mob.