Unions Provide Iowa GOP Gift
David Elbert of the Des Moines Register says all the pro-Big Labor lifting Iowa Democrats have done for the union bosses is a gift to the Republican Party. First they tried to repeal the Hawkeye State Right to Work Law,…
Yepsen’s Advice: Stand Up to Union Bosses
Iowa’s most influential political observer, David Yepsen, has some advice for Iowa’s Democrat Gov. Chet Culver — veto the union power grab and get yourself reelected. By standing up to some of the labor unions, Gov. Chet Culver may have…
Iowa Push-Back at Union Power Grab
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.
Iowa Forced-Dues Democrats Up to Old Tricks
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…
Alabama – A O.K.
Fred Barnes, in The Weekly Standard, has an insightful take on the comparative economies of Right to Work state Alabama and forced-unionism state Ohio. . . . When the U.S. Air Force awarded a $40 billion contract for 179 new…
Ohio vs. Texas
The Wall Street Journal takes an insightful look into the economies of Texas and Ohio. There’s no doubt times are tough in Ohio. The state has lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000, home foreclosures are soaring, and real family income…
Isn’t Free Choice a Civil Right?
Dolores Huerta is the cofounder of the United Farm Workers of America. She is described, by many, as a “civil rights” activist. But she has a long history of opposing basic rights for workers, such as the right to chose…
Iowa Governor Fights for Coercion
Gov. Chet Culver remains more committed than ever to gutting Iowa’s Right to Work law, Iowapolitics.com reports. In a meeting between Gov. Culver and State House Republican Leader Christ Rants to discuss ways of creating jobs, Rants pointed to “areas…
A Step in the Right Direction
In early January, Governor Jim Gibbons signed an executive order repealing former Governor Bob Miller’s 1994 executive order mandating project labor agreements on Nevada public works construction projects. Reported in the Las Vegas Review Journal. According to representatives of Nevada’s…