Labor unions

Vice President Joe Biden said that Washington needed a

Politics

Joe Biden: Labor unions are keeping the ‘barbarians at the gates’

Meghashyam Mali -

February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Public employee union members occupy the unique position of being both workers and taxpayers. They vote for their public officials at regular intervals, but they almost never have the opportunity to vote in recertification elections. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Big Labor applauds NLRB’s revival of speedy elections rule

Sean Higgins -

February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Phoenix is ending its practice of allowing city employees to use city-paid work time for union activities.

Phoenix ends city-paid release time for union work

Associated Press -

February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Infographic: Buying union influence with official time

Chris Henderson -

February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Federal employee unions use tax-funded official time, money to build political muscle

Mark Flatten -

February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that two of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and their decisions therefore void, President Obama renominated one of those appointees, Sharon Block, back to the board. (AP/Jon Elswick)

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Examiner Editorial: Obama’s labor board resurrects ‘ambush election’ rule

Washington Examiner -

February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Lobbying Congress is permitted. And high on the perennial list of union legislative priorities is killing any bill that would limit official time.

Too Big To Manage: Public pays for government unions to lobby for more federal spending

Mark Flatten -

February 4, 2014 5:00 am

There are hundreds of top-dollar federal bureaucrats who don't do a lick of work for the taxpayers. They spend their days at the office working for federal employee unions.

Beltway Confidential

‘Too Big to Manage’ series exposes how taxpayers are forced to fund thousands of federal employee union reps

Mark Tapscott -

February 4, 2014 5:00 am

Infographic: Too Big to Manage

Chris Henderson -

February 3, 2014 5:00 am

Air traffic controllers, nurses, lawyers and others employed by the government spend thousands of hours each year doing union business on official time. (Illustration by Karen Lomax/Examiner)

708 federal workers spent more time on union work than their government jobs in 2012

Mark Flatten -

February 3, 2014 5:00 am

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Tag: Labor unions

Joe Biden: Labor unions are keeping the ‘barbarians at the gates’

Big Labor applauds NLRB’s revival of speedy elections rule

Phoenix ends city-paid release time for union work

Infographic: Buying union influence with official time

Federal employee unions use tax-funded official time, money to build political muscle

Examiner Editorial: Obama’s labor board resurrects ‘ambush election’ rule

Too Big To Manage: Public pays for government unions to lobby for more federal spending

‘Too Big to Manage’ series exposes how taxpayers are forced to fund thousands of federal employee union reps

Infographic: Too Big to Manage

708 federal workers spent more time on union work than their government jobs in 2012

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