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Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind

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by Mallory Factor


  55 Daniel Massey, “Union Membership in New York Slips to New Low,” Crain’s New York Business, February 22, 2012, http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120222/LABOR_UNIONS/120229975#ixzz1nDbn4oAa, accessed February 2012.

  56 Lachlan Markay, “Unions Defend Keystone Opposition: We Have to Support Obama!” The Foundry (blog), Heritage Foundation, January 24, 2012, http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/24/unions-defend-keystone-opposition-we-have-to-support-obama/, accessed January 2012.

  57 Ibid.

  58 Indiana’s new right-to-work statute applies only to private sector workers—not to any state or local government workers, although some public sector employees already had right-to-work protection. For example, collective bargaining was already prohibited for most state employees by a law enacted in 2011. That law also contained specific right-to-work protection, even though state workers who don’t have forced union representation can’t have forced dues. But that law specifically does not cover state police, state educational institutions, and local government workers. Indiana has had right-to-work protections for teachers on the books for many years—but not for other public school employees or for other local government employees. So this means that all government workers in Indiana already had right-to-work protections except: state police, state educational institution employees, and (nonteacher) local government employees such as police, firefighters, school employees, and others, who still do not have such protections.

  Conclusion

  1 Liberty Chick, “Union Bosses Target 86-Yr Old Volunteer Crossing Guard,” BigGovernment.com, February 11, 2010, http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2010/02/11/union-bosses-target-86-yr-old-volunteer-crossing-guard/, accessed January 2012.

  2 Ibid.

  3 Labor Union Report, “AFSCME Bosses still want 86 year old volunteer crossing guard fired,” Redstate.com, February 8, 2010, http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2010/02/08/afscme-bosses-still-want-86-year-old-volunteer-crossing-guard-fired/, accessed April 2012.

  4 Pete Peterson, “No Volunteers, Please, We’re Unionized,” City Journal, November 30, 2011, http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon1130pp.html, accessed January 2012.

  5 “Pennsylvania Union Leader Resigns Amid Criticism for Threatening Legal Action over Boy Scout’s Volunteerism,” Fox News, November 23, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576438,00.html, accessed January 2012.

  6 U.S. v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973).

  7 Ronald Reagan, “Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on the Air Traffic Controllers Strike, August 3, 1981,” The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=44138#axzz1shzndo8C, accessed April 2012.

  Contents

  Welcome

  Dedication

  Introduction

  Chapter 1 Meet the Shadowbosses

  Chapter 2 The Union Fist

  Chapter 3 Follow the Money

  Chapter 4 Union-Label President

  Chapter 5 Schoolhouse Shadowbosses

  Chapter 6 Shadowbosses Bankrupt Our States

  Chapter 7 Corruption and Conspiracy

  Chapter 8 Shadowboss Battle Plan

  Chapter 9 Insurrection

  Conclusion

  Acknowledgments

  About the Authors

  Praise for Shadowbosses

  Newsletters

  Notes

  Copyright

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2012 by Mallory Factor

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