Dan Walters is a veteran and often astute observer of California politics and he recognizes some of the budget problems California suffers under comes from the power of big labor unions have in the state, especially the public employee unions:…
Michelle Malkin has more the effort of the SEIU home invasion in Illinois — made possible by their political cronies in the government. And remember, it is ALL about forcing these folks to pay union dues – that is…
Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) is supporting legislation that would seriously undermine and damage his state’s Right to Work law. In a letter to Mr. Wamp, Mark Mix requests that Mr. Wamp remove his name from the legislation: “If (the legislation) becomes…
Representing a state with a popular Right to Work law that protects a workers’ right to choose whether to join or support a labor union sometimes makes it tough to pay back your pro forced unionism political backers but in…
Fred Siegal and Dan DiSalvo’s intense look at government unions is in the new issue of the Weekly Standard and it is worth a read. The authors point out that the grand bargain between the taxpayers and public workers…
The intrepid Michelle Malkin writes about a parental revolt against the SEIU’s attempt to unionize home health care workers. Of course, this power grab was facilitated by the Illinois Gov. and big union tool Pat Quinn: Last month, I noted the appalling…
Union bosses are doubling down in Virginia’s Governor race, dropping another $400,000 to try to push Creigh Deeds over the finish line. The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees union, AFSCME, dropped the money bomb recently to…
New Cato Institute study exposes the high costs of public sector forced-union dues for politics: In May 2008, the city of Vallejo, California declared bankruptcy. Vallejo is an egregious case, but the trends that brought it to financial…
Two Kansas state agencies were working on behalf of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to identify potential new union members among the state’s in-home health care workers. The Kansas City Star reports that “the state’s Department of Aging…