A new study by a group of Stanford University graduate students, the shortfall facing California’s public pension systems could reach more than half a trillion dollars over the next decade and a half. Government employee unions…
There is another union pension scandal brewing. A Hudson Institute study in September demonstrated that the union hierarchy’s staff plan is funded at over 95 percent, while the average funding percentage of a rank-and-file member’s pension…
Big labor is a driving force behind the effort to have the government fund “green jobs.” In Spain, a similar effort was a complete and total disaster. And now it appears we are heading toward the same result. The Associated…
As conventioneers pay the price for Big Labor’s forced unionism control over the city of Chicago, many have decided to take their business elsewhere. The Chicago Tribune covers some of the added costs associated with doing business the Chicago…
As states face their toughest budgetary climates in a generation, the authors of a new report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) point out what states should do to alleviate the fiscal pain, and also…
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports “New Jersey’s public employee labor unions, long seen as a potent political force and often depicted as an 800-pound gorilla looming over the Statehouse, are running short of friends in Trenton…Democratic labor…
The President’s decision to appoint radical Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board has breathed new life into the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill. No, the bill is still bottled up in the Senate but Becker can now push…
The website Truth About PLAs has uncovered a letter from an AFL-CIO official showing the link between labor contributions and official actions by government officials promoting union-only hiring policies. The letter states: “Organized Labor and…
(Source: March 2010 Forced-Unionism Abuses Exposed) Chris Christie, New Jersey’s freshly minted GOP governor, made national news on February 11 in an address to the state Legislature regarding his proposal to balance the Fiscal…