Archive for May, 2011
NLRB Admits Boeing Complaint Applies To Every Business & State
The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) decision to issue a complaint regarding the Boeing facility in South Carolina is a poorly veiled act of revenge against a company that refused to let Big Labor bosses decide its future. As seemingly ridiculous and unbelievable as the attack on the part of the U.S. Government against an [...]
Full StoryThe union label stifles growth and jobs
The Examiner (www.washingtonexaminer.com) Opinion Editorial Danaher’s closing,” said Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., lamenting the loss of a plant that had employed 330 people in Massachusetts. “Now, those jobs are going to Arkansas and to Texas.” It was April 2005. Neal was taking the opportunity of a House committee hearing on competition with China to complain [...]
Full StoryUnion Apologist: ‘Moral Obligation’ Not To Terminate Teachers’ Livelihood
The desperation level of teachers’ unions and their apologists is growing by the day. Ceding major ground in states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey, Idaho, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, the unions seem to be on the run. They’ve done their best to negotiate compromises to fight another day. The progress that education reformers [...]
Full StoryGov. Scott Walker Fights Republicans, Unions in Mission to Expand School Choice
School choice is on the move in Wisconsin, at least in Milwaukee County. The state Assembly has approved a bill that will increase the number of voucher students in Milwaukee, and increase the number of private schools they can choose from. But an idea recently suggested by Gov. Scott Walker, to spread voucher opportunities beyond [...]
Full StoryBoeing vs. NLRB
Union Bailout Update In the most recent chapter of the Boeing vs the NLRB saga, House Republicans have demanded the Becker Board provide them information on the Board’s decision to file a union-retaliation complaint against Boeing for building an airplane factory in South Carolina. The House Education and Workforce Committee gave the Board until May [...]
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