Nurse Claims Facebook Rant Was Protected
By William Dotinga, Courthouse News Service
A nurse who pitched a fit on Facebook for having to work on her birthday sued the hospital that fired her and the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.
Arizona: Busting Official Time
Use by state and local governments of tax dollars to reward special interests is a longstanding plague on the health of our government finances. But it was not always so. Indeed, early in the 19th century, American taxpayers demanded elected politicians cure their sickness by erecting a wall of separation between government and private business.
‘Obamacare’ Costs Would Rise Even Higher With Labor Union ‘Fix’
By Napp Nazworth, christianpost.com
Labor union leaders are complaining they are getting shortchanged by the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare.” They are asking the White House to allow the health care exchange subsidies to be used for their worker’s health care plans, which could dramatically increase the cost of the ACA.
Labor unions the big loser in mayor’s race
By Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
Labor gambled and lost.
Wendy Greuel drove away much of her own base.
The Real Washington Scandal? The War On Youth
By Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RealClearMarkets.com
The media are consumed with multiple Washington scandals: the IRS, Benghazi, the Justice Department wiretapping. But what about the tragedy of the dim prospects for this month’s college graduates?
Big Labor sells its only college — to a church
By Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner
After a year on the market, the AFL-CIO has finally sold its National Labor College campus in Silver Spring, Md., another sign that the nation’s once enormous labor movement has fallen on hard times.
Opponents Warn Unionization Could Keep MN Kids Out of Some Day Cares
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The day care unionization bill is about to become law in Minnesota. But the battle over its impact is far from over. And now, opponents are warning that unionization could freeze some children out of certain day cares.
UAW and friends offer crocodile tears for Nissan job incentives
By Sid Salter, ClarionLedger.com
As the United Auto Workers continue to try to win a union organization vote at Canton’s Nissan plant, they and their friends have begun public outpourings of crocodile tears over Mississippi’s economic development incentives utilized to bring the global automaker to the state.
Caterpillar, United Steelworkers Union to resume contract talks
By Katie DeLong, Fox6now.com
Caterpillar and the United Steelworkers Union are expected to resume labor contract negotiations on Thursday, May 23rd. This, after Caterpillar workers voted “NO” on a six-year contract proposal at the end of April.
Fewer than 5 CPS schools expected to be spared
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah and John Byrne, Chicago Tribune
Pressured for months by teachers, community leaders and aldermen, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s hand-picked school board is nonetheless expected on Wednesday to approve closing all but a few of the 53 elementary schools the administration wants to shut down.