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McConnell blames public worker unions for Tea Party targeting
The Hill reports that Sen. Mitch McConnell argues that it was the IRS union that set the tone for the extra scrutiny agents gave the Tea Party and other conservative groups. IRS agents were taking cues from union leaders…
Teacher Union Bosses' Hatred of Right to Work Laws Is Understandable
As Mike Antonucci of the Education Intelligence Agency reported on Tuesday (see the link below), Becky Pringle, secretary-treasurer of the three million-member National Education Association (NEA) teacher union, admitted to delegates arriving at the giant union’s annual convention early this…
Big Labor Massachusetts Governor Wastes Taxpayers' Money
The 2.8 million members and supporters of the National Right to Work Committee and many other like-minded Americans oppose union-only “project labor agreements” (or PLAs) on taxpayer-funded projects primarily because they force nonunion companies to impose union monopoly bargaining on…
Union Bosses Spend $1 Million for TV Ad Buy
Big Labor is spending $1 million in forced union dues money on TV ads pushing amnesty, according to CNN: As the U.S. Senate prepares for its first procedural votes on the “Gang of Eight” immigration plan, a top labor…
Monopolistic Teacher Unionism Is 'Strangling Policies That Could Help Student Achievement'
In a post for the National Review’s Corner blog this morning (see the link below), Andrew Stiles discusses a new paper by Sally Lovejoy and Chad Miller of the American Action Forum that analyzes the impact on educational outcomes of…
South Carolina Outlaws Compulsory Project Labor Agreements
From The Truth About Project Labor Agreements website: Great news out of South Carolina. Yesterday, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed S.438 into law, which will prohibit government entities in the state from requiring contractors to sign a …
Former Leader in Student Anti-Apartheid Movement Blasts South African Union Officials and Their Monopoly Privileges as 'the Most Reactionary Force on the Block'
As the great 20th Century classical liberal economist W.H. Hutt demonstrated in books such as The Economics of the Colour Bar (1964), in South Africa under apartheid, government-authorized monopoly privileges for union bosses were a principal tool for the oppression…
Longtime Economic Laggard Indiana's Output Growth Rose to Eighth Fastest in the Nation in 2012
Freshly released U.S. Commerce Department data on 2012 economic output growth in the 50 states add to the evidence that Indiana employees and businesses are gaining ground in the wake of the enactment by the Hoosier Legislature of the 24th…