Union bosses representing Los Angeles police officers are demanding that editorial writers for the San Diego Union-Tribune be fired because of the newspapers stance on labor issues. The LA Times has the story: The union representing Los Angeles police officers…
KGO-TV in San Francisco is reporting that “[a] group of San Francisco sheriff’s deputies is suing their union president, charging he embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars.” Five sheriff deputies are accusing their union president, [David Wong] and other officers…
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) usually knows bad legislation when they see it, and the police and firefighter monopoly unionization bill is no exception: Unions keep losing membership as a share of the national workforce, which explains why organized…
Despite bipartisan abandonment of taxpayers and workers by members of Congress from both parties who are trying to curry favor with police and fireman unions, the Winston-Salem Journal understands what the real issues are: The U.S. Congress shouldn’t be meddling…
The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC), for unknown reasons, is carrying water for the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) union hierarchy. The article cut-and-pasted below usefully points out that H.R. 980, contrary to IAFF propaganda, constituted a serious threat to…
Even the very liberal Globe says the city of Boston shouldn’t have to bargain with firefighter union bosses over random drug testing. Yet right now Congress is considering legislation that would force localities all around the country to recognize firefighter union bosses as firefighters’ monopoly-bargaining agents, and “terms of employment” such as random drug testing would have to be part of the negotiations.
The passage of H.R. 980, a bill that would would override state laws and make Big Labor bosses monopoly bargaining agents for local and state police, firefighters, county paramedics, and other public safety officers across America, has a bizarre side-effect…
According to the Salt Lake [Utah] Tribune: Dispatch Supervisor Roxann Cheever confirmed Thursday that she circulated an e-mail stating that the city’s public-safety bosses – not just an “overzealous employee,” as a police spokesman previously said – urged…