Government Union Bigwigs Stoke Politicians’ Fiscal Imprudence (Click here to download the March 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) A recent report by State Budget Solutions (SBS) adds to the evidence that government union officials empowered with monopoly-bargaining and forced-dues…
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix sent an e-mail out this weekend providing an interesting perspective regarding the Foundations’ Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court Case that I wanted to share with you here. From Mark…
As Rick Callahan of the Associated Press recently reported (see the link below), Fort Wayne, the Hoosier State’s second-largest city, is close to approving legislation that would revoke many municipal union bosses’ monopoly-bargaining privileges. Under Indiana law, cities, towns and…
In the wake of Detroit’s entry into Chapter 9 bankruptcy last December and serial municipal bankruptcies in California since 2008, more and more Americans have a basic understanding about the detrimental impact monopolistic government unionism routinely has on public finances…
Yesterday U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes rejected government union lawyers’ claims that Detroit, despite its enormous and manifestly unsustainable debt burden, isn’t really bankrupt. As Bill McMorris reported for the Washington Free Beacon in the news account linked below: .
For years and years, the private sector in Scranton, Pa., has been shrinking. That means, among other things, that the mayor and other elected officials desperately need to get city taxpayers’ sky-high costs for municipal employee compensation under control. Scranton’s…
Why is Detroit the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy? Is the Motor City’s horrendous fiscal plight primarily a result of its own peculiar history and other special circumstances? Or are dozens, if not scores, of other…
Largely because of Big Labor-backed work rules that encourage healthy employees to retire in their early 50’s and cash in unused sick leave, vacation time, and even fringe benefits to jack up their pensions, Phoenix taxpayer costs for public-safety retirements…
Yesterday, Detroit, once a magnet for ambitious job seekers across the country, became the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy. As Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes discusses in the commentary linked below, a key factor in the Motor…