Pennsylvania labor-law provisions that force local elected officials to recognize a handful of government union bosses as public employees’ monopoly-bargaining agents are the primary reason why politicians like Scranton Mayor Bill Courtright routinely cede “control of the government to unions.”…
State labor law and the courts in Pennsylvania are heavily biased in favor of government union bosses, but they have yet to furnish police and fire union officials in Scranton, located in the northeastern part of the Keystone State, with…
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…
With a population that has shrunk by nearly 50% since 1940 and by more than 25% since 1970, and a median household income of under $36,000, Scranton, Pa., desperately needs to get control over its sky-high municipal-employee compensation costs. Unfortunately,…