Rich States; Poor States
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…
World Turns Upside Down
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…
Big Labor Buys Way Into White House, Senate, and House
Mark Hemingway at the Washington Examiner looks at the frequent visits big labor bosses have logged into the White House in an effort to control and influence the national agenda noting “after spending $400 million to elect President…
The Becker (Dis)Appointment
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…
Union Pay to Play Scheme
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…
Bend it Like Becker -- "Does Barack Obama want to wreck the American economy?"
The American Spectator’s Jeremy Lott steps up with a column about America’s newest economic wrecking ball — Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) appointee Craig Becker. Does Barack Obama want to wreck the American economy? That’s one obvious and troubling…
Bend it Like Becker -- "Does Barack Obama want to wreck the American economy?"
The American Spectator’s Jeremy Lott steps up with a column about America’s newest economic wrecking ball — Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) appointee Craig Becker. Does Barack Obama want to wreck the American economy? That’s one obvious and troubling…
Public-Sector Union Bosses Don’t Care Whether or Not New Jersey Goes Under
(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…
‘Voters Don’t Know Anything About These Issues’
Big Labor Official Lashes Out at Opponents of Union-Only PLAs (Source: March 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Big Labor and its pliant politicians from President Barack Obama on down are facing passionate opposition from ordinary citizens and mounting legal concerns as they…