Commentator Michael Barone offers some good insights (see the first link below) regarding the latest payroll employment data from the U.S. Labor Department. As Barone points out, the data for Texas, America’s largest Right to Work state, since the Great…
An AP report out this morning (see the first link below) sounded the alarm about the fact that, for the first time ever, more than one in three counties across the U.S. are experiencing more deaths than births. As the…
Last week, American Interest blogger Walter Russell Mead commented on an extraordinary unfolding battle in the Golden State. As Mead explained in a March 6 post (linked below), the battle is a consequence of San Diego voters’ overwhelming approval last…
Lorain, Ohio is finding that union-only project labor agreements (PLAs) do not live up to union bosses’ promises. PLAs costs taxpayers both in taxes and time, estimates range from 31% to 60% increased costs on construction projects. Richard Payerchin from…
Without forced-dues, Democrats know their Big Labor-filled political slush funds will dry up. To emphasize the point, Missouri Democrats and Big Labor are teaming up to provide a false narrative about right to work and its individual freedoms. From Susan…
Top bosses of the National Education Association-affiliated Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) union are determined to foist a $1.9 billion tax hike on hardworking people across the Bay State. And they are enlisting the help of union-label Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick…
In the Golden State, union bosses proudly wield their monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues privileges, and seem to have everything they want. They control lopsided majorities in both chambers of the Legislature. Statewide officeholders from Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown on down…
Calling on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — pull out your veto pen. That’s because the union bosses in New Jersey are pushing a scheme to pad their own pockets with taxpayer dollars. Mike Proto…
Writing for the Orange County Register, Larry Sand, a retired teacher who taught in Los Angeles and NYC public schools for 28…