Students Learn Less in States with Stronger Teachers’ Unions
Year after year, students in Big Labor controlled school systems get farther behind new study documents. Expanding on Terry Moe’s research in his book Special Interest.
AFL-CIO Boss Trumka Demands End to Right To Work Freedom
Its not enough to have a National Labor Relations Board using the force of government to move your agenda, now Boss Trumka wants a radical rewrite of America’s labor laws outlawing, among other things, your Right to Work.
Time To End Legalized Union Violence
The Free Beacon reports on our efforts to highlight a loophole in federal law that allows union activists and militants to use violence without fear of prosecution: Labor watchdogs held a candlelight vigil outside AFL-CIO headquarters…
Rats Infiltrate Union Operated Restaurant
Even multiple taxpayer-funded grants could not keep this forced-dues collective Utopia alive: Union organizers are hungry to add cooks, waiters and busboys to a shrinking roster of union members. The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100 came…
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…
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…