The Governor can act this week to VETO these bills. A Northam Veto will allow state, county, and city officials to focus their planning on the way forward during this crisis. Otherwise, they will need to deal with new burdens…
LIKE the entire country, Virginia faces the unprecedented health and economic challenge posed by COVID-19.
Committee Vice President John Kalb testified to the Virginia Senate Commerce and Labor Committee that government union monopoly bargaining would be bad for workers, bad for taxpayers and bad for our representative form of government. (Richmond, VA, February 24, 2020)…
Big Labor Garden State politicians like current Gov. Phil Murphy (at the podium) have tried to replenish government coffers by hiking taxes ever higher, but such maneuvers only succeed in driving away additional taxpayers. Credit: NJ Left Behind Forced-Dues States…
n a 2014 open letter to Alabama teacher union officials, former state teacher union President Paul Hubbert admitted that the loss of automatic “payroll deduction” privileges was a key reason the union’s finances were deteriorating rapidly. Credit: AP file photo/…
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 … .
As Wall Street Journal editor Jason Riley recently noted, teacher union chiefs support work rules that “shield teachers from meaningful evaluations, and that require instructors to be laid off based on seniority instead of performance.” But Right to Work Law…
Four-and-a-half decades ago, government union boss Victor Gotbaum acknowledged that, in the public sector, Big Labor determines who sits on one side of the bargaining table, and heavily influences who sits on the other. Credit: AP File Photo ‘We Have…
‘In Practice, You Can’t Enforce the First Amendment Half-Way’ Four decades ago, when it first considered a National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-backed challenge to the constitutionality of government-sector forced unionism, the U.S. Supreme Court tried to “split the…