Public Employee Unions Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by and | Dec 28, 2023

Union strikes are all the rage these days. From automobile workers to television writers, labor strikes have dominated the news cycle this year — so much so that the Wall Street Journal has already named 2023 “The Year of the Strike.” Most strikes…

by | Jul 26, 2023

SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as a defender of democracy as he prepares himself for a possible run for the presidency. In March, he launched a “Campaign for Democracy” and toured some Southern “red” states, where he vowed…

by | Jun 3, 2020

Unions may have gotten a lot more than they bargained for when the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled against them in April. This spring, the West Virginia high court upheld the state’s right-to-work law. That part of the ruling was…

by | Oct 10, 2019

Sacramento California progressives claim to be the champions of the poor and downtrodden, but their vocal support for legislation that obliterates the state’s charter schools reinforces that they mainly are the cat’s paw for the state’s powerful public-employee unions. If…

by | Jun 13, 2019

Sacramento The San Diego City Council’s vote Monday to join the union side in an effort to invalidate a 2012 ballot initiative signaled an ignominious end to one of the most promising pension-reform efforts of the past decade. The city’s…

by | Nov 27, 2018

On June 27 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of millions of government workers to choose whether to pay for union representation they do not want. The landmark ruling of Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) means…

by | Jul 17, 2018

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Janus v. AFSCME, teachers union officials were not shy in exercising their freedom of speech to express their outrage. However, this is especially ironic because these public-sector unions (and many…

by | Jun 21, 2018

Sacramento California’s government has set itself up as Ground Zero for the resistance, epitomized by the 29 lawsuits the state has filed or joined (with other states) since the beginning of the Trump administration. Most of these cases are symbolic…

by | Jun 14, 2018

It hasn’t really been discussed in great detail by the legacy media, but there is a major Supreme Court decision coming practically any day now which has the potential to change American politics substantially for the foreseeable future. The case…

by | Mar 1, 2018

Sacramento We’ve got a box of red balls at the office imprinted with a simple line drawing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and the words, “But Gorsuch.” Whenever someone complains about President Donald Trump — and I routinely…

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