Forced-unionism advocate and soon-to-retire Gov. Dannel Malloy rammed through two huge tax increases. But revenue from personal income, sales, and corporate taxes has flatlined in Connecticut. Credit: Jason Reed/Reuters Pro-Union Monopoly Policies Plunging Nutmeg State Into Deep Debt Late last…
New York Teamsters, who had for decades been forced as a job condition to pay into a union-controlled pension fund, were pressured at meetings into approving immediate steep cuts in their pension benefits. CREDIT: RICK CARLIN/ALBANY (N.Y.) TIMES UNION Teamster…
Big Labor Monopoly Leads to Fiscal Disaster Across the U.S.A. (download the June-July 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) In 1998, public-sector union bosses and lobbyists arm-twisted elected officials in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico into handing Big Labor statutory monopoly-bargaining power…