Skewed Sample Data Used In PPP Wisconsin “Do Over” Poll
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PPP’s recent poll of Wisconsin voters appears to overcount union voters by 6% and undercount Walker voters by 6%. It may not be trustworthy.
On Teachers and Others
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In judging teachers’ claims, we might compare their lives with the lives of, say, farmers or welders or interstate truckers.
Victor Davis Hanson compares his experiences as a farmer and as a teacher.
I Support Governor Walker
A little over 2 weeks ago, Governor Walker introduced his Budget Repair Bill for the 2009-2011 biennium. This bill includes several changes related to collective bargaining for public sector employees.
Here is the Wisconsin State Journal’s summary of the changes:
Makes various changes to limit collective bargaining for most public employees to wages. Total wage …
Unions: Public Sector Unions Are Different
Not all unions are created equal. Public sector unions are fundamentally different from private sector unions. While private sector unions can serve a valuable function, public sector unions exist in a different world, with different constraints and a different history.
Private and public sector unions are different historically. While there’s a long of history of private …
Unions: A Right to a Union?
Do workers have a right to unionize? If a legislature changes the law to remove collective bargaining, does that deprive workers of their rights?
It depends. It depends on which rights you’re talking about and on which rights the law covers.
There are two kinds of rights. The first kind is negative rights. Negative rights either permit …
Unions: A Good Solution for a Vanishing Problem
I think that unions are a good solution for a problem that no longer exists. One hundred years ago, many jobs were for factory work or mine work. The skill and quality of the individual employee didn’t matter. A person would spend an entire day tending a loom, welding rivets, or doing some other mindless, …
The Effect Of Teachers’ Unions On Student Test Scores
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Given the data available, it’s impossible to prove that unions boost student test scores and it’s impossible to prove that unions hurt student test scores.
The alternative to unions
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You want negotiating power? Get educated. Get a skill. What keeps wages up in a world of 7% unionization in the private sector is that I have alternatives. So stay in school and study something serious that has value alongside whatever else you’re interested in. Or study something interesting that has little market …
A Race To The Bottom?
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Walter Russell Mead argues that if we want to really avoid a race to the bottom, we need to aggressively raise productivity across the economy. That will require changes that unions will resist to the death. He argues that we may have to take away the unions’ power to save the economy.
Yet Another Reason for a Sick Day
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Did you know that Milwaukee Area Technical College will pay the deductible if a teacher’s car is vandalized in a MATC parking area? True fact. Mike Nichols reviews what else is in the new MATC collective bargaining agreement.