Once again Bill Zettler has a great piece on the mess that is public employee pensions in Illinois. He makes an extremely relevant point asking the question of why the taxpayers are stuck paying off government worker’s pensions to the tune of billions while the [...]
-By Kate Gage
As if Big Labor hasn’t already squeezed enough out of Congress with payoffs upon payoffs, they are now positioning themselves for one last-ditch effort to achieve the mother of all gifts, the job-killing Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act (EFCA).
One of the biggest impediments to [...]
In July I reported that a city union in L.A. was considering accepting a contract that increased their co-pay for healthcare and that the SEIU was furious at them for even considering such a thing.
As of the middle of August that union, the Engineers and [...]
Two of America’s largest labor unions have joined forces and have announced a combined $88 million effort to fund Democrats in the upcoming midterm election cycle.
AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka has pledged to put more workers in the field than they did for either 2006 or [...]
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the AFL-CIO, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have all announced big efforts to push for Democrat election campaigns now that Congress has passed the $26.1 billion union bailout that Democrat Speaker of the House [...]
