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Members of Oregon’s State Employee Unions Get 5% Pay Raises… as Taxpayers Lose Jobs!

Sep2
 

Unbelievable. In Oregon the reg’lar folks are losing their jobs right and left. And the bad luck for those actually paying the bills, the taxpayers, gets even worse because Oregon’s politicians have made sure that the state’s public employees unions get an automatic 5% pay [...]

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Obama, Sec. of Labor to Appear by AFL-CIO Prez at Labor Day Rally

Aug31
 

It’s been announced that President Obama will be attending the AFL-CIO’s Labor Day rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin next month. Along for the ride will be Sec. of Labor Hilda Solis.
This is one more effort of the Obama administration to shore up Big Labor’s support coming [...]

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The Arrogance of The Public Employee Union Member

Aug25
 

In a recent story detailing the efforts of 3,000 postal employee union members marching against USPS management in Detroit, one quote by a union member stuck me as wholly emblematic of the arrogance of government employee union members and it shows the disconnect between the [...]

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For the Third Time Obama Gives Unions A Break From Transparency Rules

Aug18
 

The Obama administration and the Democrat Party has yet again instituted new rules to allow unions to get out of having to report their financial doings to the federal government by again rolling back reporting requirements.
Obviously as far as Obama is concerned “transparency” is one [...]

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Public Employees Unions Are a Scam

Aug18
 

The narrative is everywhere: public employee unions are bad for good government. This month the meme is echoed by Jarrett Skorup of Michigan Capitol Confidential who wrote a piece giving a brief history of public employee unions and why they are so bad for our [...]

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