Kim Crockett

Crockett on forced unionization and the monopoly power of public unions.

Independent school districts across Minnesota spent nearly $1.5 million of taxpayer funding to lobby state legislators and agencies in 2018, according to the latest report on local government lobbying expenditures…

After the Janus decision at the U.S. Supreme Court, the state of Minnesota ordered all public employers to stop deducting “fair-share” fees from nonmember paychecks. But the state was silent…

Kim Crockett, Vice President and Senior Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in response to today’s OLA assessment of internal controls for the child…

Media Contact: Kim Crockett, Vice President & General Counsel; [email protected], 612.388.2820 (Golden Valley, MN) A report released by Center of the American Experiment uses original research to confirm that, except for…

 Media Contact: Kim Crockett. Esq. (612.388.2820) [email protected] (Golden Valley, MN) A report released by Center of the American Experiment reveals how Minnesota teachers are trapped by arbitrary union terms, forcing them…

BRAINERD, MN—A clerk for the Brainerd Police Department who filed a federal lawsuit against IBEW Local 31 has become the first public employee in the nation to successfully challenge her…

Media Contact: Kim Crockett, Vice President and General Counsel [email protected] Direct:  612.584.4563 Mobile: 612.388.2820 Center of the American Experiment filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Uradnik…

Mark Janus and Rebecca Friedrichs will be in the Twin Cities on Monday to discuss their role in the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that public employee unions cannot force…

“There’s an adult sphere and there’s a sphere for children,” said Kim Crockett, vice president of the think tank Center for the American Experiment. “It is very clear to me…

    Media Contact: Kim Crockett 612.388.2820 [email protected] Decision affects thousands of Minnesota teachers, state and local government employees In a landmark decision for First Amendment rights, the U.S. Supreme…

At American Experiment, we aim to play a constructive role in Minnesota’s marketplace of ideas and public policy. To do that the Center communicates its message statewide in an increasing…

Kim Crockett will join Kerri Miller on MPR tomorrow, Tuesday June 19th for an hour at 9:00 AM (91.1 FM) to discuss the public employee union fee case, Janus v…

The pension bill, which Gov. Mark Dayton supports, is expected to become law though some lawmakers are stunned at the growing expense. Pensions are supposed to be covered by employer…

My colleague Kim Crockett testified on Minnesota teacher pensions before the Minnesota Senate Committee on E-12 Finance on Monday (March 19) afternoon. Her message was clear: we need to keep…

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…

Education Minnesota tactics cited in briefs before the Court The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard the long-anticipated case brought by Mark Janus, an Illinois child support specialist who’s asking…

Education Minnesota tactics cited in briefs before the Court The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard the long-anticipated case brought by Mark Janus, an Illinois child support specialist who’s asking…

“This is a pro-freedom, not anti-union, case. For several decades, public employees have been second-class citizens under the law. They are forced to pay fees to a union in order…

Many employees are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment. Are they aware of what or whom these dues support?

We do. Sunday’s Pioneer Press had a long article about refugees in Minnesota that featured an admirable family: the Sivasundarams, who have come to Minnesota from Sri Lanka, by way…

Crockett writes in the Wall Street Journal.

One of the most pressing cases before the Supreme Court in 2018 involves the very survival as we know it of public employee unions like Education Minnesota. Center of the…

“Metropolitan Council staff told us they use one set of assumptions (based on historical state and local funding) when preparing their federal transportation financial plans, and different assumptions (based on…