By James T. Madore, Newsday
Police on Thursday ordered seven representatives of a union involved in a labor dispute with Cablevision Systems Corp. to leave the annual shareholders’ meeting in Bethpage.
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, John Chase and Bob Secter, Chicago Tribune
Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings.
By M.D. Kittle, Wisconsin Reporter
“Sour grapes.” That’s how Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association sums up a proposal that would bring cops and firefighters under the provisions of Wisconsin collective bargaining reforms – the same requirements by which their public sector brethren are bound.
By Michelle Relerford, NBC Chicago
A group of McDonald’s workers say they serve food every day, but are struggling to feed their own families.
By LaborUnionReport, RedState.com
Now that Barack Obama’s union appointees at National Labor Relations Board have been found to be unconstitutionally appointed by two Circuit Courts of Appeal, union bosses are apoplectic at the possibility that the NLRB will be effectively shut down in August when union attorney Mark Pearce’s term as Chairman of the NLRB expires.
By Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
As the latest round of scandals swirls around the White House, there is the usual empty chatter from various spokesmen about the President’s intention to “pivot toward the economy” (again!) and to prioritize unemployment.
ChildcareFreedom.org
Quietly and in private, Governor Dayton today signed SF778, the bill designed to unionize home-based childcare providers and transfer up to $8 million a year to AFSCME, a government employee union. That new revenue stream the unions are banking on comes at the expense of low-income families receiving government assistance to help pay for childcare.
By Mike Paranzino, The Hill
It’s a stunning admission: the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny in the run-up to the 2012 election. But equally stunning is who the IRS wasn’t targeting: a federally funded labor union front group that was boasting publicly of its lobbying activities while failing to report them to the IRS’s bookkeepers.
By Eric Katz, Government Executive
A bill to require more transparency in the practice of “official time” — when public sector union officials receive taxpayer funded salaries and work in government offices — cleared a House oversight committee Wednesday.
By Peter Morici, MoneyNews.com
In the IRS targeting scandal and others, Washington and the media are obsessed with the question: What did the president know and when did he know it? That misses the point — Mr. Obama’s presidency is much more damaging to the nation than the mistakes of subordinates now coming to light.