Chicago's teachers and their leadership should continue to battle for what they believe in. As a former public school teacher and parent, I actually disagree with some of their goals but will defend their right to pursue it.
The Democratic Party will reassess its relationship with public service unions as public opinion regarding public service employees reaches a tipping point.
MADISON, Wis. — Newly released documentary film footage shows embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker shortly after his election describing a "div...
We agonized over the decision, with the administration saying it could not yield one inch and the union saying that the administration had failed to look for savings and efficiencies in all kinds of other areas.
Without serious pension reform, kiss new taxes or tax extensions goodbye, no matter how much money special interest groups or unions spend trying to sell us the latest bill of goods.
Even though there are those who would make it political, the subject of pension reform for government employees in California is not really a political issue: it's a mathematical issue.
While Chicagoans eagerly await the mayor's proposed budget for 2012, the unions wonder if managed competition will have a role in his plan to reduce city expenses. And if so, what will it look like.
In March, Ohio GOP legislators passed Senate Bill 5, which drastically reduced the bargaining power of public employees' unions. Unionists and their D...
When Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced last year that he would begin a campaign toward his current gig, it was only a matter of weeks before he int...
Reporting from Sacramento-- California voters want government employees to give up some retirement benefits to help ease the state's financial problem...
I was with Dr. King during his time in Memphis. Today the struggle of union members in Wisconsin and elsewhere stirs my memories of that time.
MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin Supreme Court election that offered the public its first formal opportunity to weigh in on the national fight over union ...
The size of American labor unions has fallen sharply in the last decade. Much of this has to do with the erosion of the US manufacturing base. The sin...
WASHINGTON -- In a bold gambit to put an end to the weeks-long budget standoff in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker (R) split his controversial budget-repa...
CEOs on Wall Street and at Wisconsin corporations should be the target of the budget-repair bill. Not the woman who teaches severely disabled teens.
MADISON, Wis. — (AP) The Wisconsin Assembly early Friday passed a bill that would strip most public workers of their collective bargaining right...
The House of Representatives has just voted emergency funds for building a fence around the state of Ohio.
MADISON, WIS -- For the past ten days, tens of thousands of union protesters have swarmed the state capitol building in Madison, Wis. to protest Repub...
NEWARK, New Jersey (Daniel Trotta and Edith Honan) - When a New Jersey family with an autistic child walks into the state office seeking help, Nor...
State workers in Wisconsin are protesting a statement by Republican Governor Scott Walker that, union reps say, amounts to a threat to use the Nationa...
Colorado WINS should have to answer some common-sense questions, like who they are and what their budget looks like.
