APRIL 30, 2011 Prison guards can retire at the age of 55 and earn 85% of their final year’s salary for the rest of their lives. They also continue to receive medical benefits. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Roughly 2,000 students have to decide by Sunday whether to accept a spot at Harvard. Here’s some advice: Forget […]
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MAY 4, 2011 The country skipped the housing bust and its budget is headed toward balance. Voters liked it. By DAVID GRATZER In the winter of 1997, two Canadian conservatives wrote a stark essay arguing that conservative governance was an unlikely prospect for their country. The governing Liberal Party was the most electorally successful party
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Unionsdämmerung Despite having its best friend forever in the White House, the American labor movement is in mortal crisis Mark Hemingway April 25 – May 2, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 31 One of the most widely circulated photographs during the Wisconsin union battle was of a protester in Madison
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MARCH 29, 2011 A once-great American city today repels people of talent and ambition. By WILLIAM MCGURN If only Detroit could point to some natural disaster for its misfortunes. Within hours of the earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan, for example, President Obama called the prime minister to offer “whatever assistance is needed.” Likewise, when Hurricane
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MARCH 22, 2011 That battle was lost long ago—and now the young and talented are leaving. By WILLIAM MCGURN The new Republican governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, likes to say that he’s not interested in the confrontation with organized labor that we see in Wisconsin. That may be. Nevertheless, Mr. Snyder has become Public Enemy
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MARCH 15, 2011 Hint: Lose the whole ’60s thing. By WILLIAM MCGURN Just before the package of labor reforms favored by Gov. Scott Walker made it through the Wisconsin legislature, students demonstrating inside the Capitol mobilized to show their resistance. On the floor of the rotunda, they linked their bodies to offer a little protest
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First view the video regarding collective bargaining. When that video is finished, you will be able to click on the video for Unions 101.
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Democratic state assemblyman, Brett Hulsey, steps in to help. Is this really “what democracy looks like”?
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FEBRUARY 28, 2011 Collective bargaining on a broad scale is more similar to an antitrust violation than to a civil liberty. By ROBERT BARRO How ironic that Wisconsin has become ground zero for the battle between taxpayers and public- employee labor unions. Wisconsin was the first state to allow collective bargaining for government workers (in
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