This summer, law enforcement officials in Stamford, Conn., responded to a sharp increase in drug overdose deaths in their jurisdiction by furnishing police with Narcan kits, which can be life-saving in emergency situations caused by opioid abuse. But government union…
Hefty Paychecks Distributed to ‘Employees’ Who Didn’t Earn Them For half a century, Evan Cotten has worked as a longshore clerk on the docks of Port Tampa Bay in Florida. And he is a longtime dues-paying union member. Last…
As eminent labor-law scholar Clyde Summers recognized, union officials “want unchallenged control over all aspects of the [workplace] contract, including its grievance procedure and arbitration which they created.” Image: University of Pennsylvania Law School Late last month, a group of…
According to whistleblower Evan Cotten, top bosses of the ILA Local 1402 union took no noticeable action regarding his complaints about paychecks going out to fake employees for months. Finally, he went to the media. Image: WFLA-TV (NBC) — Tampa,…
So-called “project labor agreements,” or PLAs, effectively force nonunion companies wishing to participate in public works to impose union monopoly bargaining on their current employees and hire new workers through union boss-controlled hiring halls. (CREDIT: WWW.LABORISSUESSOLUTIONS.COM) Obama Edict Still Stacking…
Early this year, dozens of Annapolis High School (AHS) teachers pleaded in writing to the hierarchy of the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County union (TAAAC/NEA) not to push through a contract that cuts their compensation. But their pleas were…
Pennsylvania law professor Clyde Summers admitted that, under labor statutes empowering union officials to negotiate terms of employment for nonmembers as well as members, workers who don’t want a union are often “made worse off” than they were before. But…
As a consequence of a public-safety workforce that is “hamstrung by [Big Labor] work rules,” security practices at the nation’s “highest-value terrorist target,” the World Trade Center complex, have long been and remain today “profoundly deficient at every level, in…