Politicians Accelerate Chicago’s Race to Ruin
Chicago's financial crisis deepens due to reckless union-backed legislation increasing pension liabilities, with leaders failing to take corrective action.
Is Chicago Doomed to Become the Next Detroit?
With CTU President Stacy Davis Gates calling the shots, taxpayer costs for Chicago schools are skyrocketing even as educational outcomes get worse and worse. But the miserable status quo works for Big Labor politicians.
Big Labor-Dominated States Awash in Red Ink
Unchaining Employees Can Save Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey For years, government union monopolists have been ripping off ordinary, hardworking taxpayers in Illinois, Connecticut and New Jersey — all states where both private- and public-sector employees may be forced to…
Every Employee Seems to Want to Vote Union Out, But NLRB Says Keep Paying Dues
From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: Illinois Grocery Workers Appeal Decision Blocking Vote to Remove Union Despite Unanimous Opposition to UFCW Union NLRB asked to review Regional Director’s refusal to process decertification petition signed by…
Big Labor Mayor Wants to Stick It to Chicago Homeowners Again
Government union bosses in Illinois wield such extensive monopoly privileges that it’s all but impossible for elected officials like Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to rein in exorbitant public employee compensation costs. That’s the key reason why Emanuel and other Prairie…
I have been unionized and NLRBized out of a job
Statement of Bernard Simunich former charter member of Local 1199, Chicago, IUE before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Special Subcommittee on Labor. Below, a union member describes how powerless he was without Right to Work, and he describes NLRB as an agent…
If Things Don't Change, Within Six Years Chicago Will Have More Retired Cops Than Active Ones -- And Big Labor State Legislators Deserve Most of the Blame
Steve Malanga of the Manhattan Institute reported yesterday on a new study of state government pension funds in Illinois and Cook County released by the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accounting. (See the link below for Malanga’s informative summary.) The…
It's Not Just Detroit; it's Philly, Chicago, New York...
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…
Chicago Teamster Union Militants Accused of Taunting and Harassing Funeral Home Mourners
The Chicago Tribune reported late last week (see the link below) on efforts by the funeral home operator Service Corporation International (SCI) to secure a preliminary injunction against Teamster union bosses and their fanatical followers in the Windy City region.