Students Learn Less in States with Stronger Teachers’ Unions
Year after year, students in Big Labor controlled school systems get farther behind new study documents. Expanding on Terry Moe’s research in his book Special Interest.
Year after year, students in Big Labor controlled school systems get farther behind new study documents. Expanding on Terry Moe’s research in his book Special Interest.
Amy Volk, a state representatives from Maine, makes an eloquent case why the state should adopt a Right to Work law: For years, an unhealthy alliance between Democratic politicians and labor…
HotAir.com has a nice summary of the failing efforts of Michigan union bosses to smother the spread of Right to Work in the state: Last winter, the state of Michigan officially became the country’s 24th right-to-work state —…
By Larry Sand On August 13, 2013 · (From UnionWatch) Teachers union treasurer perpetuates myths about worker freedom. The term “right-to-work” (RTW) very simply means that workers don’t have to pay…
The Washington Examiner finds there are 19 cities with larger government worker to population ratios than Detroit where city workers accounted for the largest employer: Detroit declared bankruptcy due in no small part to $3 billion in unfunded public employee…
Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of its second study of the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund (CTPF), which reveals many pensioners are on track to collect more than $5 million…
Top bosses of the National Education Association-affiliated Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) union are determined to foist a $1.9 billion tax hike on hardworking people across the Bay State. And they are enlisting the help of union-label Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick…
Looks like Mexico also has Big Labor Kingpins as well. From Forbes’ Kenneth Rapoza: Elba Esther Gordillo. Mexican Teahers’ union Kingpin..(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Elba Esther Gordillo, head of the…
National political columnist Rich Lowry calls the developments in Michigan "stunning" while explaining how Indiana, since their enactment of a Right to Work law, has created 43,300 jobs while Michigan was losing jobs. It was the advent of an era of industrial unionization that may be coming to a symbolic end in the same place it started. Michigan is on the verge of passing the kind of “right to work” law that is anathema to unions everywhere and is associated with the red states of the Sun Belt, not the blue states of the Rust Belt. To say that such a development is stunning is almost an understatement. Michigan is to unionization what Florida is to sand, Texas is to oil, and Alaska is to grizzly bears. The union model hasn’t just been central to its economy, but to its very identity. Michigan was undergoing a real-world experiment in the merits of forced unionization versus right-to-work after neighboring Indiana adopted a right-to-work law earlier this year, the first Rust Belt state to do so. The early returns weren’t encouraging. Indiana added 43,300 jobs — 13,900 of them in manufacturing — while Michigan shed 7,300 jobs. Michigan governor Rick Snyder, a Republican reformer but not a bomb thrower, says seeing 90 companies from around the country decide to settle in Indiana after the labor change influenced his willingness to sign a bill doing the same thing.