More Evidence Maine Should Adopt Right To Work; It Works
Amy Volk, a state representatives from Maine, makes an eloquent case why the state should adopt a Right to Work law: For years, an unhealthy alliance between Democratic politicians and labor…
Unions & Cuomo Protect State Workers Found Guilty of Abusing Disabled Patients
Kate Andrews details how New York state labor laws make it impossible to prosecute abusive state workers: The New York Times released a follow-up report, revealing that only 25% of NY state home-workers found guilty of abusing disabled and mentally ill patients…
AFL-CIO Targets Union Dues Money for More Campaign Spending
Politico reports that the union bosses at the AFL-CIO will be spending vast amounts of union dues money to on gubernatorial elections in the coming election cycle: AFL-CIO bosses plan to throw their “political weight most heavily into a half-dozen…
AFL-CIO Targets MI Gov. Rick Snyder
The AFL-CIO is putting a target on Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and five other Republican governors in the 2014 election, WHTC reports: The union’s Political Director Michael Podhorzer told the audience at a breakfast in Washington, D.C. Tuesday the organization will go after…
MI Court: Right To Work Protects First Amendment Rights of Workers
A coalition of state employee union officials pushed to keep compulsory unionism and argued illogically that it was antithetical to freedom of speech. However, the court has embraced the argument that National Right to Work has made for decades —…
IRS Union -- Get Rid of ObamaCareless
Washington Examiner notes that IRS employees have a prominent role in ObamaCareless, but their union wants no part of the law. National Treasury Employees Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama’s…
It's Not Just Detroit; it's Philly, Chicago, New York...
The Washington Examiner finds there are 19 cities with larger government worker to population ratios than Detroit where city workers accounted for the largest employer: Detroit declared bankruptcy due in no small part to $3 billion in unfunded public employee…
Union Monopoly Power Will Bankrupt Illinois
Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of its second study of the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund (CTPF), which reveals many pensioners are on track to collect more than $5 million…
SEN. PAUL: A union cloud over Obamacare as broken promises infuriate the president’s base
Sen. Rand Paul looks at the big labor flip flop on ObamaCare is hurting their members. “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be…