Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Janus v. AFSCME that people cannot be forced to pay unions they don't want to join, the country has gone from 28 right-to-work states to 50 right-to-work states overnight.
Over the last century, union membership has gone from a common thing for people in many industries to in recent decades essentially a creature of government employment.
About 90 percent of union political contributions fund Democrats, and that's been consistent for decades, according to OpenSecrets.org data compiled from public records.
When Wisconsin famously ended agency fees in 2011, union membership plummeted 38 percent, bringing government unionization to a level similar to that among private-sector employment, which is about 6 percent of all employees.
Government employee unions are a major contributor to the tsunami of state and local debt about to engulf the nation, as they are the ones who used their ill-gotten political war chests to demand big benefits for their retirees at the expense of today's taxpayers.
It's going to be very painful, but at least it doesn't have to be as painful as it would have been had union power continued to delay the needed and inevitable financial reckoning.
In it, he argued that union demands are incorporated into almost every important aspect of public schools.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/11/6-big-changes-coming-public-schools-politics-thanks-supreme-courts-union-smashdown/
Over the last century, union membership has gone from a common thing for people in many industries to in recent decades essentially a creature of government employment.
About 90 percent of union political contributions fund Democrats, and that's been consistent for decades, according to OpenSecrets.org data compiled from public records.
When Wisconsin famously ended agency fees in 2011, union membership plummeted 38 percent, bringing government unionization to a level similar to that among private-sector employment, which is about 6 percent of all employees.
Government employee unions are a major contributor to the tsunami of state and local debt about to engulf the nation, as they are the ones who used their ill-gotten political war chests to demand big benefits for their retirees at the expense of today's taxpayers.
It's going to be very painful, but at least it doesn't have to be as painful as it would have been had union power continued to delay the needed and inevitable financial reckoning.
In it, he argued that union demands are incorporated into almost every important aspect of public schools.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/11/6-big-changes-coming-public-schools-politics-thanks-supreme-courts-union-smashdown/
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