From the 1999-2000 through the 2014-15 school years, enrollment in charter schools across the U.S. skyrocketed from 300,000 to 2.9 million. Charters are public institutions that furnish their services to K-12 schoolchildren free of charge, but are subject to fewer…
Top bosses of the National Nurse United (NNU) union conglomerate are known as especially virulent foes of state Right to Work legislation. When Michigan was on the verge of becoming the 24th state to prohibit compulsory union dues and fees…
Chattanoogan.com’s Roy Exum provides analysis of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union’s inside game from the UAW’s 36th Constitutional Convention: Frank Patta, the general secretary of the Volkswagen Global Group Works Council, told those at…
As public opposition to the so-called Affordable Care Act of 2010, also known as ObamaCare, continues to mount, union officials are loudly decrying the signature legislative achievement of the President they played a critical role in electing in 2008 and…
Over the past few days, a number of media reports have called public attention to the fact that local and international machinists union bosses are at odds with one another about whether rank-and-file union members in Washington State’s Puget Sound…
According to the latest edition of Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson’s Union Membership and Earnings Databook, published by the Bureau of National Affairs, from 2007 to 2012, the number of American unionized workers employed in “iron and steel mills and…
With every passing day, it seems, union bosses are decrying more loudly the signal legislative achievement of the President they played a critical role in electing in 2008 and reelecting in 2012. In a commentary for Forbes this week (see…