Invoking a study by the Hartford-based Yankee Institute, Mr. Powell explained that the compensation of Connecticut’s government employees far exceeds that of most other states “because it is determined by a system that puts government employees above the law … .
State labor law and the courts in Pennsylvania are heavily biased in favor of government union bosses, but they have yet to furnish police and fire union officials in Scranton, located in the northeastern part of the Keystone State, with…
With a population that has shrunk by nearly 50% since 1940 and by more than 25% since 1970, and a median household income of under $36,000, Scranton, Pa., desperately needs to get control over its sky-high municipal-employee compensation costs. Unfortunately,…
Despite failing legislatively to gain enough votes for the Big Labor agenda in Congress, the union boss power grab is proceeding administratively according to investigative reporter Kevin Mooney.