collective bargaining

Judge strikes down portions of voter-approved S.F. transit labor bargaining measure

By: Will Reisman 05/02/13 9:05 PM

Several portions of legislation passed by voters to give The City more bargaining leverage with Muni operators have been overturned by the California Public Employment Relations Board. Read More

The NFLPA: A lesson in union greed

By: Conn Carroll 07/20/11 12:19 PM

At the outset of the current fight between the NFL Players Association and NFL owners, ThinkProgress hoped the negotiations would be a lesson on “shared prosperity.” “These negotiations are important not just to NFL fans but to all Americans because they show that collective bargaining — the process where unionized workers and management negotiate wages, benefits, and working conditions — can create significant benefits for both workers and owners,” the Read More

Walker wins at Wisconsin Supreme Court

By: Mark Tapscott 06/14/11 3:23 PM

MacIver Institute is reporting that by a 4-3 vote the Wisconsin Supreme Court has overturned a lower court judge's ruling against Gov. Scott Walker's public employee collective bargaining reforms. More details as they become available. You can read the decision here. UPDATE: Wisconsinreporter.com confirms Read More

Wisconsin’s budget situation has spawned chilling threats

By: Deroy Murdock 03/18/11 3:00 AM

"We will hunt you down. We will slit your throats. We will drink your blood. I will have your decapitated head on a pike in the Madison town square. This is your last warning.”That e-mail reached Wisconsin state Sen. Dan Kapanke, a La Crosse Republican, on March 9, after he voted for GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget and labor reforms.Other top Wisconsin Republicans have been threatened with death. Read More

Walker wins the First Battle of Wisconsin

By: David Freddoso 03/09/11 6:13 PM

Wisconsin's Senate has been paralyzed on dealing with its budget because it requires a 20-vote quorum to address budget issues. And tied into the governor's budget bill was the provision that caused all of the Democrats in the Senate to flee the state -- a provision limiting collective bargaining rights for state workers to wages only, leaving benefits and work rules for most state employees to be determined by the legislative process instead. Read More

Back-Breaking Work

By: Nate Beeler 03/05/11 11:06 PM

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Get government employee unions out of politics

By: SF Examiner Editorial 02/23/11 10:00 PM

Wisconsin’s Democratic state senators and leaders of the Badger State’s government employee unions have given taxpayers nationwide an illustration of the corrupt political bargain at the heart of collective bargaining wherever it is found in the public sector. Read More

Standing Up to The Man

By: Nate Beeler 02/23/11 7:17 PM

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In Wisconsin, the gap widens between GOP and Dems

By: Byron York 02/21/11 9:05 PM

"They've painted themselves in a corner," Wisconsin Republican state senator Randy Hopper says of his Democratic colleagues. "There's no way for them to get out of it." Democratic senators last week fled Wisconsin rather than allow a vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's new budget bill, with its curtailments of some public-sector unions' right to bargain collectively. The bill surely would have passed given the Republicans' 19 to 14 advantage in the Senate. Read More

Myths and truths on the Battle of Wisconsin, as told by the unionists and the facts

By: Mark Tapscott 02/20/11 1:40 PM

Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, is really the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. You didn't know that? Then you haven't been listening to the teachers and state government employee unions protesting for the past week in the Badger State's capitol of Madison. Read More