- Thanks SEIU Bosses!: In Oregon, the news is bleak for the budget, because “The state will continue to shoulder the entire cost of health care premiums for employees and their families, an increasingly rare perk in either the private or public sectors as the price of health insurance skyrockets.”
- A Bill the Mafia Would Love: A letter to the editor of a Southwest Florida paper attacks the anti-democratic “Employee Free Choice Act,” saying “Under this Mafia-like legislation, union thugs can go to a worker’s home, threaten him and his family with bodily or financial harm to force him to sign an irrevocable Union Authorization Card.”
- Do It For the Children!: The Los Angeles Times highlights tactics of TV writers’ unions, reporting “To make their larger point about reality television, the guilds have seized on “Kid Nation” with its added dose of controversy — the welfare of children.”
- Farming Out Democratic Principles: As a party-line vote in California’s legislature passes an anti-democratic “card check” organizing bill for farm employees, Tom McClintock asks, “What is it about the right to a secret ballot that bothers you?”
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Posted on Aug 29, 2007 by Bret Jacobson