The pundit class has spilled a lot of pixels about the so-called rich-poor “gap.” They spilled even more when the pup-tents started popping up in Zuccotti Park. But almost all of these gap-minders have failed to address the fact that there are two kinds of inequality. One kind matters and one doesn’t. (more)
President Obama has reportedly decided to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline and the 20,000 jobs, increased energy security and billions in economic activity that are tethered to it. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The AFL-CIO on Tuesday launched a new advertising campaign to promote unions as a voice for all working people, a move that comes amid declining membership and growing hostility to organized labor in a number of states. (more)
In just over a year as governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker has been through a lot, including statewide protests and intense clashes with public sector labor unions, all because he had the courage to reform their collective bargaining rights in an effort to close the state’s massive budget deficit. (more)
When voters in Santa Clara, Calif. approved the construction of a new stadium for the San Francisco 49ers, labor unions in liberal-leaning California stood to win jobs and millions in revenue. And though opposition to the stadium is gathering steam, the unions are protecting their turf. (more)
One way or the other, Wednesday will be a big day for organized labor in the United States. (more)
Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker recently addressed conservative activists at the Young America’s Foundation West Coast Leadership Conference at the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California. Through the courtesy of YAF, The Daily Caller was given the opportunity to ask Walker several questions during a videotaped Q-and-A session. (more)
Conservatives said Tuesday that the defeat of Ohio Issue 2, which would have limited collective bargaining rights for state employees, will cause localities to decrease services, raise taxes and lay off the very firefighters, policemen and teachers that the unions said the vote would protect. (more)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state’s new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment. (more)
The battle over collective bargaining rights continues Tuesday when Ohio voters go to the polls to decide whether or not to repeal Senate Bill 5, a law limiting collective bargaining rights for union workers. (more)
Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Anthony Foxx, a Democrat with close ties to President Barack Obama, is taking political heat as several reports show he plans to replace local workers with out-of-state union workers during the Democratic National Convention next year. (more)
Barack Obama learned about politics in Chicago, a city controlled by the Democratic Party machine of the Daley family. In recent weeks, sweetheart deals between Mayor Daley’s office and several union bosses have come to light. Those deals have made the unions bosses enormously wealthy. (more)
Nearly a year ago, I noted how 2010 had been “a very bad year” for defenders of the education status quo, or as I may have called them, “antediluvian, retrograde, establishment-defending hacks.” So far, 2011 isn’t pretty either. (more)
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Chrysler and the United Auto Workers union have finally agreed on a new contract. (more)
After The Daily Caller reported that former Michigan Congressman Pete Hoekstra, currently the frontrunner for the state’s Republican nomination for Senate, opposed all Right to Work legislative efforts, at federal and state levels, the candidate changed his position: he now supports a national Right to Work law. (more)
My father has always been my hero. His story is the classic American story of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps, working hard and enjoying the fruits of America’s free market system. (more)
The Labor Department is expected to soon finalize new “persuader regulations” that would force labor lawyers, consultants and specialty firms to publicly disclose all of their financial and personal information. (more)
For years, the United States Postal Service (USPS), a dinosaur in the Digital Age, has been hemorrhaging financially because of its inability to respond to market forces. And now members of Congress have found themselves in a position where they cannot simply punt the agency’s problems further down the road. But they probably will do just that. (more)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Union activists aren’t backing off demands to work at a new Washington state grain terminal after hundreds of Longshore workers stormed the facility, overwhelmed guards and dumped grain. (more)
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. (more)
