Posted on Mar 28, 2007 by Jon Berry
Other than school vouchers, there is little that draws down the wrath of teachers unions more than charter schools. There’s no surprise here: charter schools are rarely unionized, meaning that school leaders typically have plenty of power to hire, fire, and reassign their teaching staff, administrative freedoms recently applauded by The Wall Street Journal for […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Today’s Senate hearing on the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act was a farce. Politicians continued to spout bogus numbers in support of the bill that would end the right to a personal, private vote for workers deciding whether to join a union. And Big Labor’s shills were shrill in their support. A few points: Senator […]
Posted on Mar 27, 2007 by Jon Berry
Today the United States Senate begins its examination of the absurdly named Employee Free Choice Act. If passed and signed into law, the EFCA would displace secret ballot elections for employees considering unionization in favor of “card check,” a petition-like process in which union organizers gather signatures on cards (if you’re thinking, “hey, card check […]
Posted on by J. Justin Wilson
Department of Labor Acting Solicitor General Jonathan Snare offers some good legal arguments against the Employee Free Choice Act (which the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will be examining today) in yesterday’s Legal Times: I am convinced that the general substitution of card check for secret ballots, as called for by H.R. […]
Posted on Mar 26, 2007 by J. Justin Wilson
Tomorrow is a big day for Big Labor. Sen. Kennedy will trot out a handful of the unions’ handpicked witnesses to justify passage of the deceptively named Employee Free Choice Act. So, as Kennedy and his labor-backed colleagues on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions conduct their well-choreographed kabuki dance, we want […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Stepping to the microphone during Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the gallingly misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act” will be Lawrence Mishel, head of the Economic Policy Institute. He may have the toughest job of all – to make union bosses’ math work so that 2 + 2 equals a banana. But it’s his job, because the […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
We recently told you about a speech by former National Labor Relations Board member John Raudabaugh, who warned a Federalist Society lunch audience about the misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act.” We got hold of his prepared statement, and it’s worth sharing as Senator Edward Kennedy tries to follow Congressman George Miller’s feat of pushing EFCA […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
>As mentioned below, the most recent Department of Labor financial disclosure filings are up for the United Food and Commercial Workers international union. And my, how the union bosses live, even when they’re away from home! Last year the Center for Union Facts followed AFL-CIO union bosses out to a plush resort, where they crossed […]
