Politicians granting unsustainable government employee salaries, benefits and pensions is a problem everywhere, but the states with the strongest public-sector unions will have the hardest time correcting it.
Archive for Category: "Unions"
September 10, 2010 06:48
Folk hero Gov. Chris Christie responds to teacher criticism
A New Jersey teacher blasts Gov. Christie for budget problems in education.
September 8, 2010 13:32
Union thug Trumka praises Pelosi for shoving Obamacare down our throats
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka praises Pelosi as the reason Obamacare was passed and says with her ‘we got a historic victory and drove it down the Republicans’ throat.’
September 8, 2010 10:56
The Union Liable
Bailouts: State employee pension funds are trillions of dollars underwater. Some analysts believe taxpayers will be forced to make up the shortfall. But they shouldn’t have to. They didn’t create the problem.
September 8, 2010 05:48
Media Ignoring AFL-CIO Trumka’s Violent Background
About the last thing Obama wants, especially as his party faces heavy losses in congressional elections this November, is the subject of Trumka’s lengthy track record of aggression and corruption to come up.
September 7, 2010 05:10
Obama Attacks GOP, Promotes New Jobs Program in Speech to Cheering Union Members
A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans’ hard economic times.
September 7, 2010 04:18
French Unions to Strike as Sarkozy Pension Bill Debate Starts
French unions are striking nationwide as lawmakers begin debating President Nicolas Sarkozy’s bill to raise the retirement age.
September 7, 2010 03:56
Obama’s 6 year plan tops Lenin’s at 5 years
Charles Krauthammer responded to President Obama’s latest announcement of a six year stimulus plan.. “Even Lenin stopped at five.”
September 7, 2010 03:43
Union boss says not enough $timulu$ went to union jobs
President of the AFL-CIO claims not enough of the stimulus went to ‘infrastructure’ which would all be union jobs. Trumka has also made bizarre claims that Obama has created more jobs than Bush and that the US does not have a deficit problem.
September 6, 2010 18:48
Union cartels
Labor unions cannot prosper in a competitive environment. Like other successful cartels, they depend on government patronage and protection. Worker cartels grew in surges during the two world wars and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Federal laws—the Railway Act of 1926 (amended in 1934), the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932, the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the Walsh-Healy Act of 1936, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, various war labor boards, and the Kennedy administration’s encouragement of public-sector unionism in 1962—all added to unions’ monopoly power.
