Unionization Elections Unlike Public Elections
Big Labor Victories Curtail Dissenting Employees’ Free Speech (click to download newsletter) In November 2012, roughly 63 million Americans nationwide voted against the winning candidate for U.S.
Big Labor Victories Curtail Dissenting Employees’ Free Speech (click to download newsletter) In November 2012, roughly 63 million Americans nationwide voted against the winning candidate for U.S.
Tim Stanley is a British historian and pundit who writes mostly about the U.S. In a recent commentary for The Daily Telegraph in London, Stanley calls attention to the success of Wisconsin’s Act 1o, a nearly three-year-old budget reform package…
For two-and-a-half years, union bosses in Wisconsin and their cohorts across the nation have tried again and again to get a federal or state court to overturn Act 10, a wide-ranging Badger State budget reform that includes provisions protecting most…
In early 2011, the Wisconsin Legislature adopted and Gov. Scott Walker signed into law Act 10, a wide-ranging budget reform measure that included provisions protecting most state and local public-sector employees from being fired for refusal to pay union dues…
What happens to government union bosses when they lose most of their monopoly privileges? The Badger State is now offering Americans across the country an opportunity to find out. A little over two years ago, Wisconsin legislators approved Act 10,…
The Wall Street Journal reports that big labor “spends about four times as much on politics and lobbying as generally thought.” Generally thought? …
From Reason: The latest Reason-Rupe poll of 708 Wisconsin adults on landline and cell phones suggests Wisconsin voters favor reforming public employee unions, over raising taxes and…
Some news reports suggest that Big Labor has dumped upwards of $60 million in forced union dues into the Wisconsin recall effort but their efforts have hit a stone wall. Headlines like “…
You know the union bosses' spending and benefits orgy is coming to an end when liberals like Fareed Zakaria of Time Magazine recognize the dangers unfunded pensions that union activists and pro-big labor politicians have created: "A day after Governor Scott Walker won his recall election, the New York Times wrote, "The biggest political lesson from Wisconsin may be that the overwhelming dominance of money on the Republican side will continue to haunt Democrats." Democrats have drawn much the same conclusion. "You've got a handful of self-interested billionaires who are trying to leverage their money across the country," said David Axelrod, Barack Obama's senior campaign strategist. "Does that concern me? Of course that concerns me." Warren Buffett calls the costs of public-sector retirees a "time bomb." They are the single biggest threat to the U.S.'s fiscal health. If the U.S. is going to face a Greek-style crisis, it will not be at the federal level but rather with state and local governments. The numbers are staggering. In California, total pension liabilities--the money the state is legally required to pay its public-sector retirees--are 30 times its annual budget deficit. Annual pension costs rose by 2,000% from 1999 to 2009. In Illinois, they are already 15% of general revenue and growing. Ohio's pension liabilities are now 35% of the state's entire GDP.