Yesterday U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes rejected government union lawyers’ claims that Detroit, despite its enormous and manifestly unsustainable debt burden, isn’t really bankrupt. As Bill McMorris reported for the Washington Free Beacon in the news account linked below: .
For years and years, the private sector in Scranton, Pa., has been shrinking. That means, among other things, that the mayor and other elected officials desperately need to get city taxpayers’ sky-high costs for municipal employee compensation under control. Scranton’s…
In early 2011, the Wisconsin Legislature adopted and Gov. Scott Walker signed into law Act 10, a wide-ranging budget reform measure that included provisions protecting most state and local public-sector employees from being fired for refusal to pay union dues…
The news is full of stories where union monopoly bargaining power over schools blocks, delays and overrides disciplinary actions by school management and school boards but Governor Brown takes it to a “new” level. Again, this action exposes…
Communist Steelworker is the spokesman for a bus drives strike. Seems like the rabid rabble-rouser is a traveling troublemaker.
UFT Paid $370,000 to Ghost Consultants Written By: Mike Antonucci – Oct• 03•13 Halloween approaches, so perhaps it’s not surprising to find the United Federation of Teachers inhabiting the spirit world. According to Crain’s, the New York City teachers’ union…
Ever since California Gov. Gray Davis handed over tens of thousands of parents, grandparents, and other independent personal home-care providers to SEIU union bosses, SEIU, AFSCME, and even the UAW unions have used forced-unionism state laws combined with gubernatorial and…
A stunning new actuary report on Detroit’s pension implosion has revealed that Detroit trustees doled out nearly $2 billion in undisclosed holiday “bonuses” to Detroit government workers and retirees negotiated by the city and its unions, Breitbart reports.
With a population that has shrunk by nearly 50% since 1940 and by more than 25% since 1970, and a median household income of under $36,000, Scranton, Pa., desperately needs to get control over its sky-high municipal-employee compensation costs. Unfortunately,…