Meet the Partisan Union Behind The Partisan Internal Revenue Service
By LaborUnionReport, RedState.com
At a protest in downtown Manhattan last week, a group of federal workers chanted: “Hey, hey, ho, ho, sequestration has got to go!”
Tag Archives: union political influence
Unions’ JPMorgan Power Play Is About Labor Organizing, Not Performance
By James R. Copland, Investor’s Business Daily
Labor union pension funds have taken the mantra to heart this proxy season with respect to the nation’s largest financial institution, JPMorgan Chase.
INFLUENCE GAME: Tech industry, big labor wrangle over high-tech jobs for foreigners
The Washington Post
To the U.S. technology industry, there’s a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democrats, it’s more sinister: The push by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number of visas for high-tech foreign workers is an attempt to dilute a lucrative job market with cheap, indentured labor.
DFL overreaches on day care unionization
By Editorial Board, Star Tribune
Don’t buy the malarkey coming from DFL legislators poised to deliver one of the most sought-after items on Big Labor’s wish list: unionizing Minnesota child care providers.
NYC mayoral candidates woo teachers’ union
The Wall Street Journal
Six mayoral candidates courting the city’s teachers union all criticized Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s education policies on Saturday but differed over how much they would change them.
One move to fund education meeting opposition from school boards, teachers’ union
By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun
Gov. Brian Sandoval’s plan to give tax subsidies to help low-income students attend private schools ran into opposition Monday from school boards and a teachers’ union.
Kansas State University Employees Association President Bill Glover
“We can fire them (elected officials), but it’s pretty impossible to fire somebody at K-State that’s not doing something we agree with…We can always get groups together to get rid of Gov. (Sam) Brownback if he’s not going to give the dignity and respect that state employees deserve.”
-Bill Glover (KSUEA President)
Comments on the union’s distrust of Kansas State University officials
K-State union wants to keep cozy with lawmakers
By Travis Perry, Watchdog.org
The labor union representing some employees at Kansas State University wants to bite the hand that pays them.
Illinois Unions Are So Greedy and Drunk On Power They’re Even Crushing Democrats Now
By John Giokaris, Policy Mic
Let’s get one thing straight here: the main reason for most unions’ existence is to get their lawmakers elected, so those lawmakers can kick back more collective bargaining power and infinite benefits at the expense of taxpayers.
Unions can’t drown out public discontent
By Thomas Fitzgerald, Philadelphia Inquirer
It’s hard to make out the speaker’s words on the video as he argues for the wisdom of privatizing the state liquor stores during a news conference in the rotunda of the Pennsylvania Capitol.