State-by-state public employment data for the last three years compiled and published by economists Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson show that the number of government jobs nationwide fell by 5.4% from 2010 to 2012 as dollars flowing from the…
The Washington Examiner is running a five-part series this week regarding California’s ongoing slide from an economic leader to an economic laggard. One of the key factors, the Examiner finds, is the malignant influence of the state’s government union officials,…
Click here to download a copy Forced-Dues Repeal Introduced in U.S. House — Would Bar Firing Employees For Refusal to Pay Union Dues or Fees…
Writing for the Orange County Register, Larry Sand, a retired teacher who taught in Los Angeles and NYC public schools for 28…
Recently, President Obama returned to his adopted hometown of Chicago to speak on the South Side at a Hyde Park high school. In his remarks, Obama bemoaned the city’s rampant gun violence. In 2012, the President noted, “there were 443…
Simon Campbell’s column defending worker’s choice in union membership is a proposition that is hard to argue against it but union bosses do it everyday of the week: Who should decide whether a union benefits an employee? The…
On Friday the Newark, N.J.-based Star-Ledger reported on a $160 million lawsuit filed earlier this month against International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA/AFL-CIO) union czar Harold Daggett, a number of other ILA union bosses, and several of their alleged cohorts. The lawsuit…
If Obama is really serious about job creation, he should support Sen. Paul’s National Right to Work Act. The American Enterprise Institute argues that the strongest thing President Obama could do to jump start the economy would be he help…
Three Missouri Democrats signed on to a bill that would make it illegal for state legislators to even suggest laws limiting unions’ collective bargaining powers. The legislation was sponsored by Rep. Jeff Roorda. According to the text of the…