RS at CPAC: Jim DeMint Q & A.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 10th at 04:41 PM  | 

Right to work issues, mostly. Moe Lane (crosspost)

Good News / Bad News for Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 26th at 07:12 PM  | 

The bad news: she didn’t realize that she was calling members of her own party ‘anti-woman’ before she started screaming to The Weekly Standard‘s John McCormack about how people who voted to defund Planned Parenthood are anti-woman! TWS: But there were eleven [correction: ten] Democrats who voted against funding for Planned Parenthood, so are those eleven Democrats anti-woman? WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: No, they’re not, because if | Read More »

RS Interview: State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R, PA-12).

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 19th at 03:00 PM  | 

State Representative Daryl Metcalfe is one of the state legislators behind the Pennsylvania Open Workforce Initiative, which is a set of four bills designed to essentially transform Pennsyvlania into a Right-to-Work state (you can see a summary of the bills here).  Rep. Metcalfe has been pushing for this elementary bit of labor union reform for some time; only usually not when both the governorship and | Read More »

Right-to-work coming to Maine?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 28th at 04:30 PM  | 

That’s the plan, at least.  The current situation in Maine is as follows: people don’t have to belong to a union to work, but non-union employees (both private and public sector) may still have to pay the unions a ‘service fee.’ This supposedly represents the recouping of the cost of unions ‘representing’ non-union members in labor disputes – whether or not the non-union members wanted | Read More »