Posts Tagged ‘government unions’
“Union Official” Time
A new report published by the Office of Personnel Management reveals over $1.5 million of taxpayer money are spent paying federal workers to conduct union official business. Misnamed “official time,”…
Read MoreNILRR: 12 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT UNIONS
Long after the pro-union monopoly National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was adopted in 1935, even strong supporters of this statute rejected the appropriateness of attempting anything analogous in federal, state, or local government. …
Read MoreNew Mexico Union Bosses Defend Alleged Violent Perpetrator
New Mexico taxpayers are at the mercy of public employee monopoly bargaining agreements which forced Bernalillo County officials to keep a corrections officer whose victims were awarded almost $1 million as…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips, March 21, 2014
 Bus company cuts ties with union in Spring Grove Hanover (PA) Evening Sun, March 14, 2014 More than half the drivers of Teamsters Local 776 signed a petition asking…
Read MoreProminent Editor: Public Sector Bargaining Not in Public Interest
Charles Lane opposes public sector bargaining as well as forced dues. Charles Lane is a Post editorial writer, specializing in economic policy, financial issues and trade, and a contributor to the…
Read More“Unintimidated” Blasts Monopoly Bargaining Practices
Former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating gives a polished review of “Unintimidated,” Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s book about the passage of Act 10. As Governor of Oklahoma, Keating proposed a state…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clips, July 26, 2013
NRTW Foundation starts Pgh ads Pittsburgh Post Gazette Online, July 23, 2013 The conservative National Right To Work Foundation is starting a decent-sized ad buy in the Pittsburgh market…
Read MoreObama’s Big Labor Payback Includes Federal Employees
The Washington Examiner’s Sean Higgins examines the Executive Order the president signed in 2009 which created a council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, which gives federal government employee union officials a…
Read MorePhyllis Schlafly – Union Political Spending in 2012
Phyllis Schlafly, on moralliberal.com comments on union bosses’ use of forced dues to elect President Obama to his second term. Today we are inaugurating Barack Obama for his second term. Let’s talk…
Read MoreKansas Union Members Are Still Getting a Bum Deal
Big Labor’s power in many states is so great it can make the government do its bidding, and make it virtually impossible for workers to resign their union membership. Even…
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