Posted on Apr 23, 2007 by Jon Berry
Earlier this month the Asbury Park Press published a Center for Union Facts op-ed explaining how the Newark Teachers Union is harming kids by protecting bad teachers, but not everyone’s happy with us. On Saturday, the Press published a letter criticizing us as follows: Let’s follow the writer’s lead and allow Newark’s administrators to fire […]
Posted on Apr 20, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Yesterday we pointed readers to a blogger who told officials with the United Food and Commercial Workers to “bite her albino a**”. Now members elsewhere are taking far more important (and formal) steps to show their extreme displeasure with UFCW’s “leadership.” The Orange County Register reports that in California, where UFCW members are facing the […]
Posted on Apr 19, 2007 by Jon Berry
Democracy malfunctions aren’t limited to teachers unions in the heartland, it seems. Out on the West Coast, the Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers just elected a new president … sort of. The story begins with the defeat of PVFT’s 14-year incumbent, Carolyn Savino, at the hands of vocational teacher Francisco Rodriguez, by a 259-232 margin. […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
A quick hat tip to James Sherk from Heritage, who points us to his recent Web Memo explaining why union organization elections actually favor labor leaders instead of business. Then there’s this paper from NBER which follows the vein of our recent posts on the dubious union wage gap.
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
We recently discussed the supposed union wage gap over non-union jobs, but one recently unearthed example adds some anecdotal weight to the argument. This morning we came across one grocery employee’s blog post, which compares her experiences at a non-union employer and her current (apparently unsatisfying) job. She writes: In other news , I hate […]
Posted on by Jon Berry
CNNMoney.com reports that the Teamsters union has put Coca-Cola and its largest bottler (Coca-Cola Enterprises, or CCE) “on notice” after CCE announced it would be cutting some of its unionized jobs to save money. But the International Brotherhood of Teamsters isn’t speaking from what you’d call the moral high ground. Click here to read the […]
Posted on Apr 18, 2007 by Jon Berry
The Peoria (Illinois) Federation of Teachers had its officer elections last week, but some teachers are crying foul. Reportedly re-elected by a mere three votes, the incumbent is being accused of having used union dues to pay for campaign mailings, and it appears that some building representatives did not give out campaign literature for both […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Rogers Park Bench has the video.
