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Blinding Arbitration
Big Labor’s top legislative priority, “card check,” might be stalled in the Senate, but that doesn’t mean the unions are rolling over. While talk of compromise is in the air, we hope business leaders and Senators stay alert. Continue reading
Unions vs. Taxpayers
Across the private sector, workers are swallowing hard as their employers freeze salaries, cancel bonuses, and institute longer work days. America’s employees can see for themselves how steeply business has fallen off, which is why many are accepting cost-saving measures with equanimity — especially compared to workers in France, where riots and plant takeovers have become regular news. But then there is the U.S. public sector, where the mood seems very European these days. Continue reading
Card Check Means Union Slavery
Suppose to vote in state and national elections you weren’t allowed a secret ballot behind a curtain. Suppose to vote you had to go downtown and vote in the baseball stadium, where your choices would be flashed on the scoreboard, before a howling mob. Your boss, and your co-workers, and your neighbors would all know who you voted for.
That is how the unions and liberal Democrats want to change the law in regard to employees choosing whether they want a union. Continue reading
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Fighting the Card Check Bill
“Why would we take a business model that has completely destroyed the American auto industry and try to force it onto the entire American economy? Why does this Democrat majority, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, want to deny American workers the fundamental right of a secret ballot?” Continue reading
The Ultimate Anti-Stimulus Plan
How labor policy can undermine the attempt to stimulate the economy. Continue reading
Payback Time
by W. James Antle, III Labor unions shelled out well over $100 million (pdf) in donations to political candidates during the 2008 election. More than 90 percent of that total went to Barack Obama and the Democrats. With President-elect Obama’s … Continue reading
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