Collective Bargaining

BOOK REVIEW: SHADOWBOSSES BY MALLORY AND ELIZABETH FACTOR

  BOOK REVIEW: ‘Shadowbosses’ Reviewed by Grover G. Norquist – Special to The Washington Times   Wednesday, September 19, 2012 SHADOWBOSSES: GOVERNMENT UNIONS CONTROL AMERICA AND ROB TAXPAYERS BLIND By Mallory Factor with Elizabeth Factor Center Street, $24.99, 336 pages EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Why can President Obama impose expensive regulations on coal miners and […]

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AFTER WISCONSIN, OBAMA’S HOUSE OF CARDS

June 7, 2012 What’s Changed After Wisconsin The Obama administration suddenly looks like a house of cards. By PEGGY NOONAN What happened in Wisconsin signals a shift in political mood and assumption. Public employee unions were beaten back and defeated in a state with a long progressive tradition. The unions and their allies put everything

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MICHELLE MALKIN – THE WAR ON WISCONSIN

The war on Wisconsin; Update: Sarah Palin’s call to arms By Michelle Malkin  •  March 28, 2012 02:52 AM The war on Wisconsin by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Now is the time for all good tea partiers to come to the aid of Wisconsin. Fiscally conservative leaders in the Badger State are under coordinated siege

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ART LAFFER – STATE LED PRO-GROWTH REBELLION

FEBRUARY 11, 2012 The States Are Leading a Pro-Growth Rebellion The message from Indiana and elsewhere is that aligning yourself too closely to unions is a losing strategy. By ARTHUR B. LAFFER After the 2008 election, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and, of course, the presidency. They used that victory to push through an

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WISCONSIN’S SCOTT WALKER – THE MOST IMPORTANT NON-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF THE DECADE

JANUARY 28, 2012 Wisconsin’s Scott Walker is facing a recall after his labor and spending reforms. If he loses, public unions will flex their muscles nationwide. By STEPHEN MOORE One Sunday afternoon last spring, as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was working in his front yard, a car rolled slowly by and blared its horn. He

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THE PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS ARE THE NEW TAMMANY HALL

NOVEMBER 26, 2011 ‘The New Tammany Hall’ The historian of the American city on what Wall Street and the ‘Occupy’ movement have in common, and how government unions came to dominate state and local politics. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI New York ‘What has the country so angry,” says Fred Siegel, “is the sense that crony capitalism

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THE PUBLIC-UNION ALBATROSS

NOVEMBER 9, 2011 What it means when 90% of an agency’s workers retire with disability benefits. By PHILIP K. HOWARD The indictment of seven Long Island Rail Road workers for disability fraud last week cast a spotlight on a troubled government agency. Until recently, over 90% of LIRR workers retired with a disability—even those who

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BUSINESS IRKED AS LABOR BOARD BACKS UNIONS

AUGUST 31, 2011 By MELANIE TROTTMAN The National Labor Relations Board sided with unions in several cases involving rules for organizing and representing workers, further riling business groups as the board continues to push through decisions by year’s end. The board’s three Democrats outvoted the group’s sole Republican member in all three of the cases.

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