For PA municipalities, it’s about seeking change, not dollars

By   /  May 8, 2013  /  Labor relations, News, Pennsylvania, Pensions, State Government, unions  /  No Comments

DISTRESS SIGNALS: More than 40 percent of Pennsylvanians reside in distressed municipalities.

By Melissa Daniels | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — Across Pennsylvania, times are tough for local governments. About 41 percent of the state’s population live in a municipality facing some kind fiscal distress.
Yet Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed budget holds municipal assistance relatively flat. That includes funding assistance for cities in Act 47, the official classification for the [...]

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While MWAA looks to Phase II, unions campaign for jobs

By   /  April 17, 2013  /  Labor relations, News, transportation, Uncategorized, Virginia Watchblog  /  1 Comment

MWAA CEO Jack Potter, right, and board chairman Michael Curto address the media following a board meeting last summer

By Carten Cordell │ Watchdog.org, Virginia Bureau
ALEXANDRIA — Wednesday’s meeting of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority’s board of directors focused in part on transitioning from the conclusion of Phase I of the $5.5 billion Dulles Metrorail Project and starting Phase II, an 11-mile stretch of rail to Washington-Dulles International Airport.
But while bid proposals for construction [...]

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Ex-Hostess workers land sweet deal, taxpayers foot bill

By   /  March 15, 2013  /  Economy, Featured, Federal Government, Free Market, Kansas, Labor relations, National, News, unions  /  54 Comments

FLUFF FILLING: The U.S. Department of Labor has been short on specifics regarding its claim that Hostess went out of business because of foreign trade.

 
By Travis Perry │ Kansas Watchdog
OSAWATOMIE — It’s been four months since the iconic Twinkie began disappearing from store shelves nationwide. While some have speculated the golden sponge cake could survive the apocalypse itself, its undoing was something else entirely: unreasonable demands from an uncompromising labor union.
Apparently the federal government didn’t get the memo.
Officials at [...]

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Strange days: Conservative Walker grabs union support

By   /  March 11, 2013  /  Environment, Featured, Governor, Labor relations, Legislature, Local Government, mining, Mining Wisconsin, News, Politics, Politics & Elections, public sector, Scott Walker, State Politics, unions, Wisconsin  /  5 Comments

Gov. Scott Walker has made job creation a priority of his first term. But the Legislative Audit Bureau on Wednesday delivered a stern report rebuking the job-creation agency he devised, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.

By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – Oh, it is true what they say: Politics do make strange bedfellows.
And it seems to be getting a little weirder all the time in Wisconsin.
Why, surely you know conservative icon Gov. Scott Walker, scourge of public-sector unions, hated in solidarity by many members of private-sector organized labor.
Yes, the [...]

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WI teacher settles with union over forced dues claim

By   /  February 22, 2013  /  Labor relations, News, public sector, unions, Wisconsin  /  17 Comments

Amy Anaya and a teachers union have reached a undisclosed settlement in a lawsuit alleging forced unionism

MADISON — A former Greenwood High School Spanish teacher has reached a settlement with a local teachers union she claims illegally pulled union dues from her paycheck.

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