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Democrats’ Problem: Teachers and Their Unions Just Like the Rest of Us
By Neal McCluskey Let’s face it: everyone is trying to make a profit. There’s nothing wrong with that—it’s normal, with people doing things because they feel they’ll make them better off. The problem...
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Chicago, and Why Public School Unions Strike
By Andrew J. Coulson Source: Chicago Tribune / http://trib.in/RDzuo8 Chicago’s teachers have just walked off the job, and most of the media coverage is quick to point out that this is the city’s first...
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How Do Teachers’ Unions Affect Public School Outcomes?
By Andrew J. Coulson That’s a question I was asked this morning by a reporter. Interesting as it seems, it misses the real impact that teachers unions have on American education: protecting the public...
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Gall: Richard Trumka, of the AFL-CIO, Says “Crony Capitalism” Not Unions...
Head of the AFL-CIO talks about crony capitalism. Well, he is an expert. There are a number of things which killed the Twinkie as we know it. The fact that people are less and less interested in...
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Government Waste and Government Unions
The California Department of Motor Vehicles is a massive bureaucracy whose legendary inefficiency is on the increase but which some pundits see as a model for government monopoly health care. Mariam...
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Teachers — and Unions — Like Profits, Too
By Neal McCluskey By now you’ve probably seen the economically ignorant, Ed Asner-narrated polemic from the California Federation of Teachers that “explains” how the rich hurt everyone because they are...
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This Is What It’s Like to Take on School Unions As a Democratic Leader in...
I know a number of people who align themselves generally with the Democratic Party who are very much in favor deep reform in public schools, and school choice. But the teachers unions roll all over...
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“This is our house!” Government Unions Own the Capitol
On June 5, some 8,000 government employee union members rallied at the California capitol. “We’re letting them know this is our house!” said union boss Yvonne Walker of the Service Employees...
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Labor Unions Against the Public Interest
Chris Edwards The folly of monopoly unionism (“collective bargaining”) in government is most evident when labor unions strike. Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco area residents are currently having...
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Giant Unions Turn on the Prez: Obamacare Will Shatter Backbone of Middle Class
James Hoffa of the Teamsters, Joseph Hansen of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and Donald Taylor, the president of Unite-Here, penned a letter to the president explaining to...
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