Tag: Unions

A Louisiana judge on Friday ruled that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s landmark school voucher program violated the state’s constitution that governs how taxpayer monies can be used to fund education, ruling that state funds were “never meant to be diverted

The man who helped write Obamacare is back with a new agenda for the President’s 2nd term. Step one may be filibuster reform. Jacob Hacker (pictured) runs a political policy center at Yale University. He’s best known as one of

California Gov. Jerry Brown is fine with endless public expenditures of taxpayer cash. But when it comes to private donations, Brown is putting his foot down. The new University of California Berkeley chancellor, Nicholas B. Dirks, is all set to

The angle of a just-released New York University study is, of course, that ole’ left-wing canard known as “income inequality,” but the findings are still useful in drawing other conclusions, and not ones that are very pleasant. Is America now

The twelve members of Congress who constituted the Deficit Committee have failed. The stock market, on Monday, certainly voted with its feet, fleeing equities as though the New York Stock Exchange were infested with Scarlet Fever. (An estimated trillion dollars

Now that Barack Obama has been re-elected and the Democratic Party holds sway in the Senate – again – unions and leftist groups are calling for filibuster reform. Reform’s the wrong word for it, actually: they’re calling for an end

On Tuesday, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush fired a salvo at labor groups by attacking teachers’ unions for their refusal to consider reforms.  Bush, who is chairman of the Foundation For Excellence in Education Reform, told attendees of the organization’s national

Union leaders and those in the Occupy movement are demanding a minimum wage increase be included in the fiscal cliff deal being negotiated in Washington, D.C.  According to NYU Local, “labor advocates and some economists insist that a permanent fix must include

As Lachlan Markey of Heritage Foundation reports, unions have violated federal law a myriad of times this last year – and these are merely the tip of the iceberg, if President Obama’s incestuous relationship with the unions is any indicator.

The unions’ takeover of the United States under Barack Obama and his fellow Marxists associates is hitting a stone wall with the nation’s largest employer, Walmart. Unions such as the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), which organized Black

After Hostess began to liquidate its holdings last week, eliminating 18,500 jobs in the process, critics accused the company’s investors of engaging in so-called “vulture capitalism.” Ripplewood Holdings, which bought Hostess, will actually lose nearly all of the $130 million

Speaking at The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s “Restoration Weekend” in Florida on November 16, Pat Caddell indicted what he called the Republican “consultant-lobbyist-establishment” complex for losing a presidential campaign in 2012 President Barack Obama had no business winning.  “No presidential

Despite union efforts to target retailers like Walmart, businesses are reporting record Black Friday traffic – the biggest sign yet that the unions are out of touch with the American people. Starting at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, Walmart put its

Backed by the power of the Obama administration National Labor Relations Board, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace union is set to strike against Boeing. The union contract expires Saturday. The new offer from Boeing slashed salary and

Federal labor officials from the National Labor Relations Board  (NLRB) will allow some Walmart workers to go on strike on Black Friday. The Board will not decide by Thursday whether to issue an injunction to stop the union-backed group, OUR

Americans are bracing for chaos in their holiday travel and shopping this week, as labor unions are planning strikes and protests across areas of the country that are likely to cause major troubles during one of the busiest weeks of

So much for that ray of hope for the Twinkie. Today, the bankruptcy judge in the Hostess case gave approval for the company to liquidate. The mediation suggested by Judge Robert Drain failed; as Drain stated, “Sadly, the parties were

Despite a $1.5 billion tax hike on income, sales, corporations, and other areas in 2011, the state of Connecticut is projected to have a budget deficit that reaches $1 billion by the end of June 30, 2013. Gov. Dannel Malloy

If you’re a government worker and you’re worried about the effect that “fiscal cliff” negotiations will have on you financially, don’t worry – you’re covered. The Federal-Postal Coalition, which represents more than two dozen federal employee unions, asked Congress to

Even union lackey California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) can’t handle the unions anymore. Brown has appealed a lawsuit that would pay state unions some $12 million because Brown furloughed them thanks to the $16 billion state debt. Last summer, an

Ready to fly out of Los Angeles today to get to your family before Thanksgiving? Not so fast. Los Angeles’ labor unions have decided to protest on Thanksgiving Eve – one of the busiest travel days of the year –

There is a heated argument over what finally killed the Twinkie. The Hostess Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union blames management. BCTGM International President Frank Hurt said: The truth is that had it not been for the