All Posts Tagged With: "unions"

Hilda Solis, Secretary of Unions

Hilda Solis thinks labor unions are so obviously virtuous that any worker who votes against unionization does so only because evil labor relations consultants have conspired to muddle the worker’s brain.

10Oct2011 | Charles W. Baird | 37 comments | Continued

Will America’s Police Become Federales?

If the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act passes in Congress, police unions across America will move closer to being federalized.

22Jul2010 | Wendy McElroy | 15 comments | Continued

My New Hero

A superintendent voids a union contract, fires all the teachers, becomes my personal hero. Of course she can hire the good ones back, but it will be under a new contract.

25Feb2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 2 comments | Continued

The Health Care Debate Was “Meaningful”?

Let’s give credit where credit is due. David Brooks does say one true thing in his New York Times column, “The Values Question”, on government health care reform: “The system after reform will look as it does today, only bigger and more expensive.” Brooks is certainly right that no “health care reform” proposal with any [...]

24Feb2010 | Charles Johnson | 1 comment | Continued

Rizzo on the Supreme Court Ruling

I highly recommend this post by Mario Rizzo on the Supreme Court free-speech decision. Nobody has put it better. A tidbit: The terrible truth of the matter is that a large complex government is incompatible with political and personal freedom. It is not just the economic freedom in various sectors that is threatened by a [...]

24Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

The Real Meaning of Privilege

“They live in an expensive mansion, fly first-class to foreign countries, and eat at the finest restaurants. They send their kids to private schools. They’re so privileged.” How often have you heard some variant of the lines above? I’d bet it’s a lot. Yet, typically, the word “privileged” is inaccurate. We certainly all know or [...]

23Sep2009 | David R. Henderson | 11 comments | Continued

What's Good For GM?

The New York Times asks: So how did the famous 1953 quotation from the former General Motors president Charles E. Wilson — that what was good for our country was good for G.M., and vice versa — become a dated notion to so many people? The answer? The carmakers, for example, fought hard in recent [...]

18Nov2008 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

Union Pension Bailouts

One of the many downsides of an auto-industry bailout is that we’ll rescue the very defined-benefit pension plans that are killing the industry. From the Washington Post: … the United Auto Workers plans to press next year for an additional $15 billion in public funds to cover the first payment the three companies are due [...]

12Nov2008 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

Closing a Malevolent Circle: The Employee Free Choice Act

In 2006, 7.4 percent of American private-sector workers were unionized. That figure has fallen every year since 1955, when it was close to 35 percent. Despite the unjustifiable privileges granted to private-sector unions by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), they are almost economically irrelevant. But they are not politically irrelevant. Collectively unions spend at [...]

1Jul2007 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | Continued

Why Wages Rise: 1. Labor Unions?

Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation ]or Economic Education. Wage rates are higher in the United States than in any other country. and they are about five times as high here as they were a century ago, in purchasing power. Many explanations of this phenomenal rise have been attempted. Dr. [...]

1Mar1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | Continued

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