AUGUST 19, 2010 Unfunded Public Pensions—the Next Quagmire A federal bailout would cost trillions and prevent necessary reforms. But there are several ways states can rationalize their workers’ retirement benefits. By R. EDEN MARTIN The next big issue on the national political horizon may be whether the federal government should bail out the many budget-strapped […]
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WASHINGTON TIMES Agents’ union disavows leaders of ICE Sees support for ‘amnesty’ **FILE** Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton (The Washington Times) By Jerry Seper – The Washington Times August 9, 2010 The union that represents rank-and-file field agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has unanimously passed a “vote of no confidence”
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AUGUST 17, 2010 Notable & Quotable Abraham Irwin on how a multi-employer pension plan liability destroyed his business. Abraham Irwin, commenting at WSJ.com in response to the Journal editorial on Aug. 16, “The Next Pension Bailout”: MEPPA [Multi-employer Pension Plan Amendment Act] is not only bad for industry and tax payers, but it is bad
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AUGUST 15, 2010 The Next Pension Bailout New momentum to dump union retirement burdens on taxpayers. Congress is gone for August—heaven be praised—but that hasn’t stopped unions from quietly mobilizing to push through a big new priority this fall: a pension bailout. Big Labor is going Code Red on the issue, in the face of
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AUGUST 11, 2010 Recusal Refusal NLRB appointee Craig Becker’s evolving definition of ethics. President Obama in March gave Craig Becker a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board, after even Senate Democrats proved unwilling to confirm the union lawyer to the agency charged with fairly settling labor disputes. It appears their misgivings were justified.
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AUGUST 11, 2010 Stimulus Pushers EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The unions themselves could have prevented some layoffs had they been willing to adjust their rich benefits. In Milwaukee, for example, nearly all of the 500 teacher layoffs announced earlier this year could have been avoided if the unions had agreed to change health plans that
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AUGUST 6, 2010 The Eternal ‘Emergency’ The House is headed back to Washington. Anything but that. Word came down yesterday that Nancy Pelosi is recalling the House from its August recess for an “emergency” session. This is never a good omen, because every moment the Members are on vacation is a moment they aren’t doing
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Bright Lights, Bad Schoolhouses Teachers’ unions as big-screen villains. BY Sonny Bunch July 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 42 Facing thousands of worried members at the annual convention of the National Education Association on July 3, the head of the nation’s largest teachers’ union sounded a little whiny. “Today,
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BIGGOVERNMENT.COM Andy Stern Joins Georgetown University as Research Fellow by Liberty Chick Andy Stern has just gained yet another job. Earlier this month, Stern also accepted a position on the Board of Directors for SIGA, a producer of anti-viral and biological warfare defense products. But this job seems to have some policy teeth, with a
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Bright Lights, Bad Schoolhouses Teachers’ unions as big-screen villains. BY Sonny Bunch July 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 42 Facing thousands of worried members at the annual convention of the National Education Association on July 3, the head of the nation’s largest teachers’ union sounded a little whiny. “Today,
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