State Sponsored Thievery Continues in Plain Sight
Teachers and other public employees use “air time” to pick your pocket. The California State Teachers Retirement System tries calming words. David Crane tells the truth and loses yet another job....
View ArticleCalifornia’s Public Sector Union Pension Secrecy Lobby
Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced that it would post the names and pension amounts of its retirees. But after the Retired Public Employees Association...
View ArticleLA Teachers Union: Striking Out?
UTLA is planning to walk out over a mess that it helped to create. The case is being built for a teachers’ strike in Los Angeles. The next step in the contract negotiation process is mediation, whereby...
View ArticleWhen Union Bosses Become Employers
Sanctimonious labor leaders treat their employees very differently than their members. While tales of union hypocrisy are as common as instances of Donald Trump sticking his Ferragamos in his mouth,...
View ArticleTeacher Union Pension Flim-flam
The public employee pension problem isn’t new, but a teacher union leader’s defense of it has sunk to new depths. According to the Federal Reserve, public employee pensions in aggregate nationally are...
View ArticleLet’s Deep-six Prop. 30
The signatures for an initiative that would extend 2012’s “temporary” tax increase in California are due today. Four years ago Californians voted in Prop. 30, a “temporary” tax, to pay back schools...
View ArticleA Kinder and Gentler Teachers Union?
The unions are trying to take the “we’re in it for the kids” shtick to a new level by declaring that they now collectively bargain for “the common good.” Last week, The American Prospect posted...
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Pension Pilfery
Share this ArticleShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedinShare by MailPension Pilfery [avia_codeblock_placeholder uid="1"] “The teachers unions don’t just screw over kids, they also screw...
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The union role in our growing taxocracy
Share this ArticleShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedinShare by MailThe union role in our growing taxocracy [avia_codeblock_placeholder uid="0"] Unions, which are tax-exempt, see to it...
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Striking at the wrong target
Share this ArticleShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedinShare by MailStriking at the wrong target [avia_codeblock_placeholder uid="0"] Teachers should stop listening to union leaders and...
View ArticleState Sponsored Thievery Continues in Plain Sight
Teachers and other public employees use “air time” to pick your pocket. The California State Teachers Retirement System tries calming words. David Crane tells the truth and loses yet another job....
View ArticleCalifornia’s Public Sector Union Pension Secrecy Lobby
Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced that it would post the names and pension amounts of its retirees. But after the Retired Public Employees Association...
View ArticleLA Teachers Union: Striking Out?
UTLA is planning to walk out over a mess that it helped to create. The case is being built for a teachers’ strike in Los Angeles. The next step in the contract negotiation process is mediation, whereby...
View ArticleWhen Union Bosses Become Employers
Sanctimonious labor leaders treat their employees very differently than their members. While tales of union hypocrisy are as common as instances of Donald Trump sticking his Ferragamos in his mouth,...
View ArticleTeacher Union Pension Flim-flam
The public employee pension problem isn’t new, but a teacher union leader’s defense of it has sunk to new depths. According to the Federal Reserve, public employee pensions in aggregate nationally are...
View ArticleLet’s Deep-six Prop. 30
The signatures for an initiative that would extend 2012’s “temporary” tax increase in California are due today. Four years ago Californians voted in Prop. 30, a “temporary” tax, to pay back schools...
View ArticleA Kinder and Gentler Teachers Union?
The unions are trying to take the “we’re in it for the kids” shtick to a new level by declaring that they now collectively bargain for “the common good.” Last week, The American Prospect posted...
View ArticlePension Pilfery
“The teachers unions don’t just screw over kids, they also screw over new teachers. Millennials beware.” The above tweet from Mike Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, pretty much...
View ArticleThe union role in our growing taxocracy
Unions, which are tax-exempt, see to it that the rest of us pay and pay and…. Tax Freedom Day is the day when our government has taken enough of workers’ income to satisfy its tax lust for the year....
View ArticleStriking at the wrong target
Teachers should stop listening to union leaders and look at the data before striking. In a recent op-ed, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten claimed that “teachers are standing...
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