If the federal government partially shuts down on Tuesday, federal worker unions are set to protest and demand back pay for government workers. Government unions may even consider lawsuits to get back pay for furloughed federal employees. If Congress cannot
On Meet the Press, Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) said it was not unreasonable for House Republicans to ask for a one-year delay of Obamacare when President Barack Obama has handed out one-year delays on a variety of provisions of the
A stunning new actuary report on Detroit’s pension implosion has revealed that Detroit trustees doled out nearly $2 billion in undisclosed holiday “bonuses” to Detroit workers and retirees negotiated by the city and its unions. Internally, officials called the bonuses
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members in Chicago have gone on strike after a janitorial company cut some union jobs and hours because of Obamacare, a law the SEIU supported. Tyler French, the organizing director of SEIU Local 1 in
“I have an activist’s desire to improve people’s lives.” –Bill de Blasio The term of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ends in November 2013. Most New Yorkers are blissfully unaware of the fiscal and political train wreck that awaits
Here’s a win-win. Ted Cruz proposes a delay in Obamacare’s individual mandate until 2015–the same delay that employers received. That delay takes the form of no funding to enforce the mandate. It also mirrors a condition Republicans have tied to
I enjoy and admire Michael Medved, so it is with some reluctance that I attack his op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, which is both cringing and cringeworthy, and represents much that is wrong with the mentality of today’s GOP
When Establishment Republicans and their Democrat comrades claim there is no path to victory in the fight to defund Obamacare, they are intentionally muddying the waters. Do not confuse blundering political expedience with winning. There is a clear path to
Germany votes Sunday with Chancellor Angela Merkel poised to win a third term, making her Europe’s only major leader to survive its financial crisis but potentially forced into governing with her main rivals. After shepherding Europe’s top economy through the
In a recently published comprehensive interview, America’s most senior Catholic cardinal said that the failure to catechize children and young people in the teachings of the Church has crippled its response to significant moral issues of our time. Cardinal Raymond
That isn’t the explicit message of a new rule from the Labor Department, but it is its intended effect. On Tuesday, the Labor Department announced it was expanding federal minimum wage and overtime regulations to cover 2 million home health
Occupy Wall Street got off to a shaky start in New York City two years today. From a small group of disaffected communists and anarchists staging what amounted to a fancy sit-in September 17, 2011 to the media explosion that
The Sakharov Prize, Europe’s top human rights award, has listed the nominees for the 2013 prize of $65,000, and they include NSA leaker Edward Snowden; Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was the victim of an assassination attempt by the
By TOBY STERLINGAssociated PressAMSTERDAMKing Willem-Alexander delivered a message to the Dutch people from the government Tuesday in a nationally televised address: the welfare state of the 20th century is gone. In its place a “participation society” is emerging, in which
Income inequality has been growing since the 1970s, but President Obama’s economic policies are making it worse and at a faster pace than Presidents Bush or Clinton. Globalization is driving the sinking fortunes of many ordinary Americans. Prior to World
Teachers in Kenosha, Wisconsin have voted to decertify their union, putting a halt to the organization’s ability to bargain with the state on behalf of educators. Kenosha teachers took advantage of the opportunity to jettison the union after Governor Scott
A White House official said on Friday that the Obama Administration “does not see a legal way” to give Big Labor the taxpayer-funded Obamacare subsidies it vigorously argues it deserves and needs. The announcement was made in a Treasury Department
Forbes cites a new survey of federal workers that reveals over 92% of them think they should be allowed to keep their current health care plans, instead of being forced into ObamaCare. Less than 3% of them are eager to
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin says that union members across America should demand that Obamacare be repealed and defunded, and some of their leaders should resign for not opposing the health care law. “Union brothers and sisters, don’t let your
A leading labor union boss delivered an impassioned rebuke of Obamacare at the AFL-CIO convention Thursday, telling attendees, “we’ll be damned if we’re going to lose our health insurance because of unintended consequences in the law!” Laborers’ International Union of
(AP) Obama to meet with union leaders on health careBy SAM HANANELAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is meeting with union leaders at the White House to discuss labor’s growing concerns about the new health care law. Friday’s meeting comes after the
White House officials, including top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, were on hand at this week’s AFL-CIO convention to pressure union leaders not to voice their growing angst with Obamacare in the form of a strongly worded resolution blasting the president’s
Montgomery County Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes has been ordered by Pennsylvania judge Dan Pellegrinion to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, ruling that Hanes lacks the authority to decide whether PA state rules are constitutional. “A clerk of
(AP) DC mayor vetoes wage bill affecting Wal-MartBy BEN NUCKOLSAssociated PressWASHINGTONMayor Vincent Gray vetoed a bill Thursday that would force Wal-Mart and other large retailers to pay their employees at least $12.50 an hour, calling it a “job killer” that
On Monday, the AFL-CIO amended its constitution to include “gender identity” and “gender expression” to its objectives and principles; the constitution now says that the mission of the union is to “encourage all workers without regard to race, creed, color,
