Posted on Apr 29, 2008 by Jon Berry
Front-page news in today’s Washington Post: D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee has signed an agreement with Washington Teachers Union President George Parker giving Rhee authority to reassign all “excessed” teachers at 23 D.C. schools that are set to close. This may sound rather arcane, but in the world of D.C. public education this is a […]
Posted on by J. Justin Wilson
Yesterday, the beleaguered Union Labor Life Insurance Company, better known as ULLICO, posted a $2.4 million net loss, much of which resulted from a $20 million settlement with the Department of Labor after a five-year investigation into the union-administered insurance company’s corruption. TMCnet has a brief run down of ULLICO’s long list of misdeeds: Ullico’s troubles with […]
Posted on Apr 25, 2008 by J. Justin Wilson
And SEIU’s saga continues. The New York Times’ Steven Greenhouse reports that the California Nurses Association (CNA) has lost its petition for a restraining order against SEIU and its president Andy Stern. The case between the CNA and SEIU is less than a month old, but its already generated more than 200 pages of court […]
Posted on Apr 24, 2008 by J. Justin Wilson
Everyone secretly likes watching a good sports fight. And while a baseball bench-clearer is fine and good, nothing beats a hockey smack-down. That’s what I feel like when watching the SEIU these past few weeks. It’s like the rest of the world is chanting: “Fight, fight, fight!” In honor of that, imagine that Andy Stern is number […]
Posted on by J. Justin Wilson
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) is embarrassed (and he should be). In a recent conference call with bloggers, he explained that House leaders are holding up passage of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement to “kowtow” to the labor movement’s demand for “card check.” Here’s a snippet that Carter Wood over at ShopFloor transcribed: Let me just say […]
Posted on Apr 21, 2008 by J. Justin Wilson
Ok, I admit it. We’ve been sitting back and enjoying the Service Employees International Union and California Nurses Association battle royale. Anything I have to add has probably already been said by one side or the other. That said, I did spend a few minutes today piecing together the restraining order against Andy Stern and […]
Posted on by Jon Berry
The state of California is facing a budget crisis, and as part of its fiscal belt-tightening, the state is making cuts in its education spending. As a result of the spending cuts, many school districts are laying off teachers. In a sensible world, you would first lay off those teachers who were contributing the least […]
Posted on Apr 16, 2008 by Adam Schaeffer
Mark Krikorian over at NRO’s Corner has an interesting post on an arresting report: And you thought our teachers’ union was bad? We’ve just published a piece by William & Mary Prof. George Grayson identifying Mexico’s stupefyingly corrupt teachers’ union one of the reasons that country is so screwed up and can’t hold on to […]
