by Jane Richey | Sep 16, 2013 | Health Care
Union leaders in Pennsylvania are echoing concerns expressed by the national AFL-CIO about the implementation of the federal health care law. At this week’s national conference of the AFL-CIO, an umbrella group for dozens of labor unions, union leaders approved a...
by Jane Richey | Aug 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Federal employees were paid more than $155 million of taxpayer dollars in 2011 for spending more than 3.4 million hours of “official time” on labor union activities that fell outside their assigned government duties, according to a survey by the Office of...
by Jane Richey | Sep 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Most Americans realize that Labor Day is about celebrating workers, not union bosses. But that won’t stop Big Labor’s apologists from seizing the spotlight to demand more power. Fact is, modern unions are built on the legal privileges of compulsion and...
by Jane Richey | Aug 10, 2012 | Politics
A new report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce highlights a striking example of Big Labor’s strength at the local government level: the states of Pennsylvania, California, Illinois and Nevada have all exempted unions from the state’s own anti-stalking laws. The report,...
by Jane Richey | Apr 18, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) runs on a $45 billion annual budget — including $5.5 billion in federal stimulus money to oversee capital building projects. Thanks to President Obama, the federal government is steering that money toward Big Labor patrons...