Archive for April, 2012
The Real GSA Scandal: Job-Killing Big Labor Payoffs
Stop the presses: Big-spending Democrats are finally up in arms over a federal boondoggle. Details of the U.S. General Services Administration bacchanalia get worse by the day. We’ve graduated from overpriced breakfasts in Vegas, friends-and-family junkets galore and in-house videos mocking their own profligacy to extravagant bonuses, alleged kickbacks, obstructionism and bribes. But the scandal [...]
Full StoryChristie Risks All to Take on Unions
The proverbial can only be kicked so far before the can rusts away to nothing. That is what Police in Stockton, California have found out and that is what the pensioners in the entire Illinois retirement system will soon find out. Stockton Can Suspend Police Accrued Vacation Payouts A California Superior Court Judge says Stockton Can [...]
Full StoryDon’t Let Unions Get Your Phone Number And Email Address
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) wants to require businesses to surrender lists of employees’ phone numbers and personal email addresses to union organizers. Giving away employees’ personal contact information violates basic privacy rights and will inevitably lead to workers being targeted for harassment at the hands of union bosses. Congress is getting ready [...]
Full StoryPlunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives, and Bankrupting the Nation
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that there are more union members in the public sector than in the private sector in the United States. Thirty-nine percent of state and local government workers are members of unions, compared to just 7 percent of private sector workers. What problems are caused by the high level [...]
Full StoryOccupy Wall Street: Springboard For SEIU Organizing
‘Occupy Wall Street’ and dozens of similar protests around the nation were only the beginning. The Service Employees International Union, as much as any organization in or outside the ranks of organized labor, is making sure of it. The SEIU these past several months has been playing a crucial behind-the-scenes role in transforming these rallies [...]
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