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UNIONS AND OBAMA
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) In the Tank for Big Labor Obama is making union dreams come true. BY Peyton R. Miller July 19, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 41 Labor union membership has declined dramatically in the past six decades, from over a third of the workforce in 1945 to just 7.2 percent of
WASHINGTON KEEPS FEEDING THE UNION BEAST
JULY 7, 2010 A Case Study in Teacher Bailouts Milwaukee shows that unions will keep resisting concessions if Washington rides to the rescue. By STEPHEN MOORE Milwaukee The Obama administration is pressuring Congress to spend $23 billion to rehire the more than 100,000 teachers who have been laid off across the country. Before Congress succumbs,
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TROUBLE FOR UNIONS
JUNE 11, 2010 Big Labor’s Arkansas Bust By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Arkansas Democrats went to the polls on Tuesday, though not necessarily to vote in a primary runoff. What they actually took part in was a referendum. Big Labor lost. Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s triumph over Bill Halter and his union allies goes well beyond simple
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New York’s Charter Schools
JUNE 5, 2010 Storming the School Barricades A new documentary by a 27-year-old filmmaker could change the national debate about public education. By BARI WEISS New York ‘What’s funny,” says Madeleine Sackler, “is that I’m not really a political person.” Yet the petite 27-year-old is the force behind “The Lottery”—an explosive new documentary about the
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INDIANA FIGHTS CRONY CAPITALISM
JUNE 4, 2010 Hoosiers vs. Crony Capitalism By MITCH DANIELS June 10 will be a silent anniversary, but one worth noting by those alarmed at the past year’s assault on free institutions. It was last June 10 when the federal government tossed aside the option of proven, workable bankruptcy procedures in order to nationalize Chrysler
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BAILING OUT THE UNIONS
JUNE 1, 2010 The Union Pension Bailout A scheme for taxpayers to cover mismanaged multi-employer plans. Feeling tapped out after stimulus, ObamaCare and everything else? Senator Bob Casey has one more deal for you. If the Pennsylvania Democrat gets his way, U.S. taxpayers will also pick up the astonishing tab for poorly managed union pension
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Union’s Heavy Foot on Obama’s Neck
BP and the Union Foot on Obama’s Neck Lurita Doan Monday, May 31, 2010 Elizabeth Birnbaum, Director of Minerals Management (MMS) at the Department of the Interior, resigned over the BP spill, in a classic, sacrifice-a-pawn, let-the-heads-roll, political sacrificial lamb ploy that folks in DC have witnessed countless times. Someone had to go. Anger over
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Tea Parties vs. Unions in November
MAY 21, 2010 By JOHN FUND Elections this month have enhanced the political clout of two groups widely separated on the political spectrum. The tea party movement stands to play an outsize role in the fall elections now that outsider Rand Paul has swept Kentucky’s GOP Senate primary, while unions provided the muscle for Democrats
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Federal Law Could Override State Law Re Collective Bargaining
Carolina Journal Exclusives Collective Bargaining Bill for Public Safety Workers Could Cost Taxpayers Federal legislation would override North Carolina ban on union organizing By Donna Martinez May 18, 2010 RALEIGH — Nearly 32,000 North Carolina state and local public safety employees could begin negotiating contracts with unions if recently introduced federal legislation becomes law. S.
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