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This Is Not About Teachers

Remarks from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, at a town hall meeting. “This is not about teachers, this is about the union.”

Union Productivity: The Downfall of the Detroit Three?

Rand Simberg argues that UAW work rules have killed the productivity of the Detroit Three. He thinks it’s possible that the companies could survive paying the high salaries if they had a free hand to simultaneously increase worker productivity. But they don’t and for that reason the union deserves to die.

Some have claimed …

The Fallacy of Unionization

SEUI chief Andy Stern:

When you have higher wages, people aren’t poor, they get to eat, they get to live a better life and have a social safety net.

That’s the fallacy of unionization right there. People who have a job are better off. But what about people who don’t have a job? They’re not …

Morning Links

Paul Copan busts some ”First Christmas” myths over at Reclaiming the Mind.

There would have been no inns in a backwater town like Bethlehem. They would be found along main roads or in cities. The word for inn (katalyma) is the same one as the ”guest room (of a private home)” …

Could You Be Forced into a Union?

Do you want to join a union? In Barack Obama’s America, you may be forced to. Obama has promised to sign the Employee Free Choice Act, if elected President. What would the Employee Free Choice Act do? Well, take this example.

The Union targets Joe’s employer for unionization. There are 100 employees in the …

GM Plant Closes: Who's to Blame?

This morning, General Motors announced that it would be closing four plants — including the Janesville, Wisconsin plant. Everyone was talking about the news today. Most of the talk centered around who to blame. The most popular candidates were President Bush; the evil, greedy managers of GM; and even President Reagan (!).

Governor Doyle’s opinion:

Special-Ed Kids Everywhere You Look

From What special-ed cut means:

Several speech and language clinicians predicted some of the projected savings won’t materialize.

Testing of children diagnosed with only speech and language disabilities will intensify, they said, in search of additional diagnoses — such as learning disabilities, or emotional behavioral disabilities — that would cement the …

Manufacturing in Decline?

United States Steel, Alcoa, Goodyear and the United Steelworkers want to convince you that American manufacturing is in serious decline and that if serious action isn’t taken soon our manufacturing sector will disappear entirely.

”The hemorrhaging of manufacturing jobs is hurting America down to the local level,” said Terrence D. Straub, United States Steel’s …

Unions and Success

The United Automobile Workers Union recently held its annual convention. While in Las Vegas, they discussed what steps were necessary to grow union membership.

Mr. Bailey [president of Local 2865] told fellow members that organizing could often take a long time, saying that it took nearly two decades to change California law to allow …