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.
The Department of Labor (DOL) has confirmed that, over the last year, the number of cases of embezzled union dues has increased. As reported on CNS News, DOL’s: . . . Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS) recently released its…
Writing in the Weekly Standard, Stephen Moore details the massive financial obligations and costs imposed on taxpayers by the public employee unions. It didn’t get much attention on the East Coast, but in late February the town of Vallejo, California,…
Fact of the Day: The political arm of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and other . . . [special interest groups] . . . have spent more than $7.1 million directly supporting the Illinois Democrat’s bid for the presidential…
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…
The venerable Dan Walters, who covers California state politics for the Sacramento Bee, has discovered the obvious in a column entitled “Unions again using politics to bolster membership.” Walters notes: It’s no secret that organized labor has seen a steep…
A California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
$200 million dollars. That is the latest amount pledged, out of general treasury funds, by AFL-CIO bosses to spend on the 2008 presidential and congressional elections. The focus of much of their ire will be Sen. John McCain. Political director…
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…