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With Michigan teachers unions outraged over the state’s new right-to-work law that allows teachers to work without joining the union, the state’s current teachers are preparing to close down schools in protest. To recap: unions are bankrupting Michigan schools and

6 This week, the Michigan legislature is expected to give final approval to ground-breaking reforms which will make it the 24th state to enact right-to-work legislation. To longer would Michigan workers be forced, as a condition of employment, to hand

As the institutional and radical left begin to descend on Lansing, Michigan in preparation for Tuesday’s expected protest against right-to-work legislation passed last week, they have an interesting ally–the unions representing the multimillionaire players of professional football and baseball.  Players

(AP) Unions vow political payback for right-to-work lawBy JOHN FLESHERAssociated PressLANSING, Mich.With defeat in the Michigan Legislature virtually certain, Democrats and organized labor intend to make enactment of right-to-work laws as uncomfortable as possible for Gov. Rick Snyder and his

(AP) Unions prepare for protest at Michigan CapitolBy ED WHITEAssociated PressDEARBORN, Mich.More than 200 activists attended training Saturday in preparation for a protest at the Michigan Capitol, where lawmakers are putting the final touches on legislation that would allow workers

A friend from Chicago, involved in Illinois politics who has known Obama since his early days in the Illinois State Senate, told me that two things that trump everything else in Obama’s mind: redistributing the wealth and empowering labor unions. 

Yahoo News is reporting that far-left anarchist Lisa Fithian is training protestors in Michigan on “direct action techniques” in preparation for the upcoming right-to-work protests.  Fithian, exposed in the film Occupy Unmasked, is the radical frequently employed by labor unions

The White House argued that its $800 billion stimulus plan passed in 2009 would bring down the unemployment rate to 5.6%. And even as Friday’s jobs report showed that the unemployment rate is 7.7%, Democrats and President Barack Obama may push

California State Controller John Chiang has announced that total state revenue for the month of November 2012 fell $806.8 million, or 10.8%, below budget.  Democrats thought they could hammer “the rich” by convincing voters to pass Proposition 30 to create

Michael Moore only hearts democracy when it adheres to his strict, far-left worldview. Moore lost his cool anew over Michigan GOP members passing “right-to-work” legislation in his home state, sending union backers into a frenzy. Now, he’s letting loose on

(AP) Mich. legislators defy unions, OK right-to-workBy JOHN FLESHER and JEFF KAROUBAssociated PressLANSING, Mich.In an audacious flex of political muscle, Republicans in a single day reached the brink of a goal that for years has seemed an all-but-impossible dream: making

Despite heavy protest by auto workers, the law that makes payment of union dues voluntary has passed. AP LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Senate voted to approve a right-to-work bill on Thursday that would weaken labor union power, in a

As Republican members of the Michigan House and Senate were passing right to work bills into law inside the Capitol, supporters and protesters were clashing outside. The two clips below feature Americans for Prosperity’s Michigan director Scott Hagerstrom, who had

(AP) LANSING, Mich.The Michigan House has voted to approve right-to-work legislation for private-sector workers. House members voted 58-52 to approve the measure Thursday afternoon as hundreds of union activists protested loudly in the state Capitol halls in Lansing. Only Republicans voted

One month after a union backed proposition aimed at enshrining collective bargaining rights in the Michigan constitution failed, Republican lawmakers are pushing right-to-work legislation through the lame-duck session. National unions spent $23 million trying to pass Proposal 2, which would

The DC GOP may be looking for creative ways to surrender its principles, but in the states, the GOP is pressing its advantage to reform the country. Today, in Michigan, the GOP Legislature and Governor made a surprise move to

While a guest on a local Chicago radio show, Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) VP Jesse Sharkey was questioned over his recent participation in the Midwest Marxism Conference and refused to answer why he was there and what relationship the Chicago

US casino magnate Sheldon Adelson spent $150 million, much more than previously thought, on funding Republican hopefuls in an unsuccessful bid to stop Barack Obama winning a second term, a report said Monday. Adelson, 79, whose Las Vegas Sands Corp.

Matthew Boyle, the investigative journalist who has been lauded for his work on President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder’s Fast and Furious scandal, has joined Breitbart News. He is seen a rising star among center-right journalists, and Michelle

A Louisiana judge on Friday ruled that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s landmark school voucher program violated the state’s constitution that governs how taxpayer monies can be used to fund education, ruling that state funds were “never meant to be diverted

The man who helped write Obamacare is back with a new agenda for the President’s 2nd term. Step one may be filibuster reform. Jacob Hacker (pictured) runs a political policy center at Yale University. He’s best known as one of

California Gov. Jerry Brown is fine with endless public expenditures of taxpayer cash. But when it comes to private donations, Brown is putting his foot down. The new University of California Berkeley chancellor, Nicholas B. Dirks, is all set to

The angle of a just-released New York University study is, of course, that ole’ left-wing canard known as “income inequality,” but the findings are still useful in drawing other conclusions, and not ones that are very pleasant. Is America now

The twelve members of Congress who constituted the Deficit Committee have failed. The stock market, on Monday, certainly voted with its feet, fleeing equities as though the New York Stock Exchange were infested with Scarlet Fever. (An estimated trillion dollars

Now that Barack Obama has been re-elected and the Democratic Party holds sway in the Senate – again – unions and leftist groups are calling for filibuster reform. Reform’s the wrong word for it, actually: they’re calling for an end

On Tuesday, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush fired a salvo at labor groups by attacking teachers’ unions for their refusal to consider reforms.  Bush, who is chairman of the Foundation For Excellence in Education Reform, told attendees of the organization’s national

REUTERS – Tens of thousands of people packed New Zealand’s capital city, clambering on roofs and hanging onto lamp posts on Wednesday to get a glimpse of the stars at the red carpet world premiere of the film “The Hobbit:

Union leaders and those in the Occupy movement are demanding a minimum wage increase be included in the fiscal cliff deal being negotiated in Washington, D.C.  According to NYU Local, “labor advocates and some economists insist that a permanent fix must include

As Lachlan Markey of Heritage Foundation reports, unions have violated federal law a myriad of times this last year – and these are merely the tip of the iceberg, if President Obama’s incestuous relationship with the unions is any indicator.

The unions’ takeover of the United States under Barack Obama and his fellow Marxists associates is hitting a stone wall with the nation’s largest employer, Walmart. Unions such as the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), which organized Black

After Hostess began to liquidate its holdings last week, eliminating 18,500 jobs in the process, critics accused the company’s investors of engaging in so-called “vulture capitalism.” Ripplewood Holdings, which bought Hostess, will actually lose nearly all of the $130 million

Speaking at The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s “Restoration Weekend” in Florida on November 16, Pat Caddell indicted what he called the Republican “consultant-lobbyist-establishment” complex for losing a presidential campaign in 2012 President Barack Obama had no business winning.  “No presidential

Despite union efforts to target retailers like Walmart, businesses are reporting record Black Friday traffic – the biggest sign yet that the unions are out of touch with the American people. Starting at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, Walmart put its

Backed by the power of the Obama administration National Labor Relations Board, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace union is set to strike against Boeing. The union contract expires Saturday. The new offer from Boeing slashed salary and