American Experiment on Employee Freedom
Employee Freedom Articles
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PCA union takes choice as well as voice from Minnesota families
I met Kris Greene several years ago. We were in federal court, listening to arguments in a case she and other parents brought in an attempt to stop Gov. Mark Dayton from inviting a union to speak f...
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The perfect defeats the good as Dayton vetoes pension bill
Gov. Mark Dayton did not just veto a tax bill last week that passed with an overwhelming legislative majority. He also vetoed the pension bill, which was crafted under the Pension Commission leadershi...
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Employee Freedom Posts
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Should Teachers Have the Right to Strike? A Look at West Virginia and the Twin Cities.
Reasonable people can disagree about the wisdom of allowing public employees to legally strike, especially when union members are sitting on the school board. If strikes are illegal, as we saw in West...
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Teachers Pension, on Downward Slide, Wants to Lower Return Assumption: Admits to $9 Billion Deficit Even with Taxpayer Cash Aid
The Teachers Retirement Association (TRA) told legislators last month that it wanted to drop its assumed rate of return from 8.5% to 7.5%. TRA is the last fund in the U.S. to assume an 8.5% rate of re...
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Another Segment: Union Dues Spent on Political Advocacy Without Permission
Hard-working public employees are forced to pay money to a government union as a pre-condition of employment. The decision to financially support a union is a decision that employees should get to mak...
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What Big Labor Thinks of American Experiment
The current issue of the New Labor Forum includes a long column by Max Fraser, a left-winger who writes for publications like the Nation and Dissent and, improbably, is associated with both Dartmouth ...
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Union Organizer Warns of Chaos if Big Labor Loses Janus Case
It’s never over til it’s over, but big labor has largely conceded its public employee union monopoly through forced dues and fair-share fees will end when the Supreme Court rules on the Ja...
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