Right-To-Work Is Right For Ohio* (and Elsewhere)

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 9th at 12:30 PM  | 

* See update at bottom.  As today’s government-union bosses push higher taxes, establish dues schemes to fund their bloated salaries and union-bought politicians, the evidence has become pretty clear: Government unions have become political, parasitic entities injuring taxpayers and the communities they control (see Central Falls and Providence, RI; Detroit, MI; and the once-great State of California for examples). In the private sector, however, where taxpayers’ | Read More »

Wisconsin’s Walker Leads Poll As Union Bosses Burn Through Members’ Money

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 25th at 08:00 PM  | 

Following Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s reforming his state’s collective bargaining laws and breaking the stranglehold unions held on taxpayers (saving them $476 million so far), union bosses across the country laid siege on the  dairy state’s capitol and declared war on Walker and his fellow Republicans. In 2011, union bosses and other outside groups spent tens of millions of dollars in a failed attempt to recall | Read More »

WI School Teachers Vote To Disband Union: “…we never had to use their services.”

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 12th at 09:30 AM  | 

When given a choice, teachers in four out of eleven schools in Racine County, Wisconsin have decided to disband the unions they paid dues into for years. According to the Journal Times, by a slim majority (of those voting), North Cape School District teachers voted to disband the union. However, in Yorkville, the vote was unanimous. Out of the 29 teachers who voted, all 29 | Read More »

Wisconsin Union Hypocrisy: WEAC Accused of Breaking Staff Union Contract

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 14th at 12:00 PM  | 

Pot, meet Kettle. While it occupied Wisconsin’s state capitol, the union that represents many of Wisconsin’s public school teachers, WEAC, demonized governor Scott Walker’s government union reform as an attack on collective bargaining. Yet, when WEAC found itself no longer able to forcibly collect union dues without state help, with its forced funding being diminished, WEAC decided to lay off 40%of its staff. Now, in | Read More »

Dismantling the Union Monopoly: Wis. teachers union to lay off 40% of staff

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 15th at 05:30 PM  | 

For years, the Wisconsin Education Association Council maintained a virtual monopoly on Wisconsin’s education system, raking in $25 million in union dues from teachers in 2009. Moreover, it also controls an insurance trust called the WEA Trust, which gave the union the ability to “sell” (though negotiations) school districts health insurance for teachers–often at a premium price. Of course, most Americans never heard about this | Read More »

AFSCME: The Big Green Dog Behind Big Government & Higher Taxes

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 17th at 11:00 AM  | 

Across the nation, states, counties, and municipalities are facing a fiscal calamity. Even before the 2008 economic meltdown, many states were facing a sea of red ink due to over-promising, poor fiscal planning, and too much political influence from government union bosses. Now, as politicians of both parties grapple with the mess created by years of passing the buck, they are faced with taxpayers revolting | Read More »

Move Over, Chris Christie: Wisconsin’s Walker Gives Public-Sector Unions Some Tough Love

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 12th at 10:00 AM  | 

He’s been in office for less than two months, but it’s become clear that newly-elected Governor Scott Walker plans on cleaning up Wisconsin’s fiscal house and public-sector unions are not too happy. Wisconsin, according to the Sunshine Review… …[F]aces an estimated $58 million shortfall in its Medicaid budget, according to a new memo released this week by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. This comes after the | Read More »