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2 weeks before election
Published: Tuesday, October 25th, 2022 @ 6:33 pm
By: John Steed
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A bill that would open disciplinary records of government employees is crawling through the Senate, and employee unions and Democrats are determined to kill it.
Published: Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 @ 12:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Graham Piro of the Washington Free Beacon reports on labor unions’ response to the president’s bloated infrastructure package.
Published: Monday, April 12th, 2021 @ 1:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In case you’re wondering what’s happened with all the money appropriated to public schools through the federal ‘relief’ bills, you’re not alone.
Published: Monday, April 5th, 2021 @ 9:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bruno Manno writes at Real Clear Education about facts that appear clear to everyone but recalcitrant teacher union representatives.
Published: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 @ 9:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vivek Saxena reports for BizPac Review about the reaction among unions to President Biden‘s first actions in office.
Published: Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Is his picture coming to a North Carolina elevator near you?
Published: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 @ 10:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Editors at the Washington Examiner highlight a key lesson 2020 has taught us about teachers unions.
Published: Thursday, December 24th, 2020 @ 11:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This weekend, the Chicago Teachers Union tweeted that efforts to reopen schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic are “rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.”
Published: Tuesday, December 15th, 2020 @ 3:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Taxpayers could pay an extra $1.32 billion if public employees win the ability to collectively bargain, says a report by the John Locke Foundation.
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 @ 1:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina is home to one of the biggest union battles in the South.
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2020 @ 10:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist offers an idea for responding to teachers unions that don’t want reopened schools.
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2020 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In February 2019, after months of negotiation, Western North Carolina’s Mission Hospital was sold to HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital company.
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2020 @ 6:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Eric Boehm writes at Reason.com about the disconnect between teachers unions’ current demands and actual threats COVID-19 poses to schools reopening.
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With the help of police unions.
Published: Saturday, June 13th, 2020 @ 5:47 pm
By: LifeZette
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Rachel Greszler, writing at the Daily Signal confronts head-on the major obstacle to "reforming law enforcement" in many large cities…unions.
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2020 @ 11:58 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Kevin Daley of the Washington Free Beacon reports on workers’ response to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 @ 4:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina law bans government agencies from making contracts with unions and bans public employees from striking.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 @ 1:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Joining a union, just like joining a political party or a religious group, should be an individual’s free choice.
Published: Thursday, April 4th, 2019 @ 9:52 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court took a significant step toward restoring individual liberty for all government employees, including faculty in public universities and colleges, with its decision in Janus v. AFSCME
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2018 @ 4:10 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and State Superintendent Mark Johnson shared thoughts on education reform during a Tuesday, June 26, kickoff event for a new education nonprofit organization, Grow Great NC
Published: Tuesday, July 10th, 2018 @ 10:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sometime in the coming weeks the US Supreme Court is expected to issue an opinion in the case Janus v. AFSCME, a case educators and teachers' unions have been closely watching for some time
Published: Saturday, June 23rd, 2018 @ 1:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Mike Antonucci at the Education Intelligence Agency has published his annual membership and finance numbers for National Education Association (NEA) and state affiliates
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2018 @ 12:24 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Anyone watching the changing landscape for labor unions in this country has seen a decades-long slide in membership
Published: Tuesday, June 6th, 2017 @ 8:41 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina Teacher Pay and the Real $50,000 Question
Published: Monday, February 27th, 2017 @ 4:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the period of apartheid in South Africa, all-white labor unions representing workers in the diamond mines were able to have put in place minimum wage laws for diamond mine workers
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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National Employee Freedom Week is a national effort to publicize employee rights to opt-out of union membership
Published: Sunday, August 21st, 2016 @ 9:19 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The state of Nevada’s largest union representing law enforcement officers at the local and state levels blasted State Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, an avowed conservative Republican for her calling citizens to use deadly physical force against police officers
Published: Saturday, June 11th, 2016 @ 8:59 am
By: Jim Kouri
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It was natural to include unions in the Mapping the Left website. They are the quintessential leftist political machine. With virtually unlimited bank accounts, thanks to mandatory membership and dues, more lawyers than one would care to count, and the best community organizing structure...
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 4:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The answer is obvious. It's a minimum wage increase that prices competition out of the market while exempting companies with a unionized work force.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 4:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Maybe we need to read history before we start changing it.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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North Carolina is a right-to-work state, but that hasn't stopped labor unions from trying to find new ways to boost their membership. Bruce Clarke, president and CEO of Capital Associated Industries, addressed the John Locke Foundation's Shaftesbury Society in 2014 on the topic...
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2015 @ 5:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dana Cope has stepped on some powerful toes during his tenure as head of the state employees union here in North Carolina. Most of them have been on the starboard side of the political spectrum.
Published: Thursday, February 12th, 2015 @ 3:49 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It appears the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) have been providing free office space for years to the local branch of an organization with close ties to state and national, politically-active teacher unions.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 10:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Labor unions and "moral" activists have once again somehow convinced a few of the poorest and least educated workers in the Triangle to walk off their jobs and demand publicly that they all be priced out of work and their jobs be taken by machines.
Published: Friday, September 12th, 2014 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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