What unions really want is legal standing to sue employers and prevent any changes—in wages, hours or other conditions of employment—unwanted by their members. May 18, 2012 – WSJ By CHRISTOPHER M. TONER Wisconsin’s recall election is on, pitting Gov. Scott Walker against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. If Mr. Walker is voted out of office [...]

Emergency meeting called over drastic drop in FCAT scores Author: Kala Rama, Anchor/Reporter, krama@clickorlando.com Published On: May 15 2012 12:30:17 PM EDT Updated On: May 16 2012 09:57:51 AM EDT TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Board of Education decided in an emergency meeting Tuesday to lower the passing grade on the writing portion of Florida’s standardized [...]

A federal judge finds the NLRB abused the law. May 14, 2012 – WSJ Some of the Obama Administration’s worst regulatory abuses have arrived via the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)—think of its lawsuit to stop Boeing from making airplanes in the right-to-work state of South Carolina. But such overreach is too much for at [...]

Why aren’t Democrats running against Scott Walker’s union reforms? May 3, 2012 WSJ Remember the Greek-style protests in Madison, the union sit-ins, the lawmakers who fled to Illinois to avoid voting on Scott Walker’s collective-bargaining law last year? Now that the recall election of Mr. Walker is in full swing, Big Labor must be wondering [...]

May 1, 2012 Politics: The president tells building-and-trades union workers that Republicans have blocked multiple bills putting them to work, even as he blocks an oil pipeline their former union chief supported. President Obama may have thought he was preaching to the choir when he addressed the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department Legislative Conference [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Tuesday, May 1, 2012 Labor unions, like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being — not by what they actually are or what they actually do. Many people, who do not look beyond the vision or the rhetoric to the reality, still [...]

April 27, 2012 By Gary Larson Tora! Tora! Tora! No, it’s no sneak attack. Nationwide unions spearheaded by the public employee unions, teachers’ unions in the vanguard, have Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in their cross hairs. They aim to shoot him down – figuratively, but of course! — in June 5 recall elections. Led by [...]

Apr 25, 2012 – Kate Hicks Today, the sleepwalking Senate will wake briefly to vote on a measure that would nullify a controversial National Labor Relations Board rule set to take effect on April 30. Recall that back in early December, the NLRB passed a rule allowing “snap elections” for union membership. The rule’s primary function [...]

Apr 11, 2012 Kyle Olson EAGnews.org is releasing a series of stunning reports to show taxpayers exactly how our dollars are being spent in government schools.  We repeatedly hear from the education establishment that school coffers are being raided, requiring teachers to be laid off and programs to be cut.  We hear schools are on [...]

Apr 8, 2012 Chris Edwards Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that there are more union members in the public sector than in the private sector in the United States. Thirty-nine percent of state and local government workers are members of unions, compared to just 7 percent of private sector workers. What problems [...]