Professional educators and leading opinion makers are calling for Iowa’s Governor Chet Culver to veto union power grab legislation that was rammed through the House and Senate by the Democrat leadership. The Sioux City Journal writes: For once, Iowa Gov.
Writing in the Weekly Standard, Stephen Moore details the massive financial obligations and costs imposed on taxpayers by the public employee unions. It didn’t get much attention on the East Coast, but in late February the town of Vallejo, California,…
Pro-forced unionism politicians are up to their old tricks in Iowa. Once again, the best interests of Iowa workers and the taxpayers who pay their salaries are taking a backseat to the demands of compulsion-minded Big Labor bosses who financed…
The venerable Dan Walters, who covers California state politics for the Sacramento Bee, has discovered the obvious in a column entitled “Unions again using politics to bolster membership.” Walters notes: It’s no secret that organized labor has seen a steep…
Here we go again. It is a good thing that the U. S. Supreme Court “has . . . granted a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys for a group of twenty…
Pro-forced unionism Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is a proponent of the so-called “Patriot Corporation Act,” a bill that says if you take away an individual’s right to vote for or against a labor union, force an employer to remain silent,…
The New York Times fancies itself has a defender of civil rights and civil liberties. But when it comes to free and democratic elections for workers, they clearly are on the other side. In an editorial entitled “A Hopeful…
Columnist George Will reminds readers about the arrogance displayed by union bosses and their congressional benefactors pushing the Card Check Scam bill: Bruce Raynor, president of the union Unite Here, expressed organized labor’s compassionate liberalism when he urged sparing…
Tim Miller, writing for the New York Post, notes that: There has been nothing coy about the Democratic presidential candidates’ courtship of Big Labor. After all, union endorsements come with armies of door-knocking, phone-calling, sign-waving foot soldiers; union leaders…