Back-to-school season will soon once again be underway, and so will the annual opportunity for educators to decide if union membership is right for them. From Sept. 1 until Sept.…
The teacher union landscape in Wisconsin changed dramatically following the passage of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011 budget repair bill, more commonly known as Act 10. Union recertification elections restored workplace…
Minneapolis school finance officials gave a very sobering presentation to board members recently, warning that enrollment losses coupled with district spending will bankrupt the district in two short years. There…
Union bosses are at it again, with their latest labor rackets including false entries, embezzlement, and conspiracy, according to the Center for Union Facts and the Enterprise Freedom Action Committee.…
Minnesota’s state labor policies continue to undermine worker and taxpayer rights, according to a recent report on public-sector labor laws by the Commonwealth Foundation. The report gave Minnesota a “D”…
The National Education Association (NEA) held its annual meeting and representative assembly over the Fourth of July holiday, as it does every year. But unlike years past, the union’s business…
A Ramsey County District Court judge has suspended implementation of St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s all-or-nothing vaccine mandate on the city’s police and firefighters set to take effect in January.…
How collective bargaining shields wayward public employees.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Public employee unions hide behind bureaucratic minutiae to prevent dissatisfied 'members' from leaving.
There are still too many public employees who are being kept in the dark about their rights. Here are six things every government worker should know regarding union membership.
Public employee unions hide behind bureaucratic minutiae to prevent dissatisfied "members" from leaving.
As the one-year anniversary of Janus v. AFSCME approaches, the national teachers’ union AFT (American Federation of Teachers) recently made a misleading claim about the case’s impact on union membership.…
In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court did something courts often do: instead of doing its job and ruling on the law, the Court split the baby, acting like a legislative…
Federal filings by labor unions are in for the years 2012-2015. The good folks at Union Facts have combed through the data, finding that labor unions spent $530 million almost…
MNPCA is a coalition of home-based personal care attendants (PCAs) who care for persons with disabilities in their homes under a Medicaid program. In most cases, the PCA is a…
Last Thursday, October 27th was a busy day for a coalition of devoted personal care attendants (PCAs) trying to decertify the SEIU Union that got itself “elected” in 2014 with…
The Service Employees International Union that won the biggest public employee labor election in Minnesota history in 2014 now faces a statewide decertification campaign aimed at eliminating collective bargaining for…