Labor [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Teacher Union Employee Exaggerates Snyder Budget Cuts and More in Email to Rally Members

By Tom Gantert | March 17, 2011

The UAW's Anti-Democratic Principles

By Wendell Cox | March 15, 2011

Teacher Union Prez: Stronger Emergency Financial Managers Will Be "Just Like Being in the Slave Days"

By Tom Gantert | March 11, 2011

Public-Sector Bargaining Privileges Are Not Inalienable Rights

By Patrick J. Wright | March 11, 2011

Government Unions Protest to Bankrupt Local Governments

By James M. Hohman and Paul Kersey | March 9, 2011

The Union, Not Day Care Providers, Is Getting the ‘Pay Cut’

By Michael Jahr | March 4, 2011

Michigan Ain't Wisconsin, But Their Teachers Unions Share a Playbook

By Michael Van Beek | March 3, 2011

Lawmakers Walk Out on Legislatures, But No One Walks Out on a Union

By Joseph G. Lehman | Feb. 23, 2011

Public Union Reform Is Where the Money Is

By Paul Kersey | Feb. 19, 2011

Governor Looks At Public Employee Compensation

By James M. Hohman | Feb. 18, 2011

Union Bosses Outsource Hostility, Hiring Beneficiaries of Entrepreneur’s Charity to Protest Him

By Ken Braun | Feb. 16, 2011

Yes, Government Workers Get More Benefits

By Jack McHugh | Feb. 14, 2011

Executive Summary

By Paul Kersey | Feb. 14, 2011

Wisconsin Gov. Seeks to End Collective Bargaining

Feb. 14, 2011

State Senator Kicks Open Right-to-Work Door

By Tom Gantert | Feb. 10, 2011

Public-Sector Unions Fight to Keep Bloated Benefits

By Jarrett Skorup | Jan. 31, 2011

Is Silence Golden?

By Kathy Hoekstra | Dec. 22, 2010

A Public Employee Union Response

Dec. 17, 2010

What Is the Future for Michigan's Public Employee Unions?

By Tom Gantert | Dec. 15, 2010

Fat Years for State's Big Teacher Union

By Tom Gantert | Dec. 13, 2010

MEA Has $174.5 Million in Liabilities, $66.3 Million in Dues

By Tom Gantert | Nov. 26, 2010

Nearly One Thousand Six-Figure Salaries at UAW and National Education Association

By Tom Gantert | Nov. 23, 2010

Did the Auto Bailout Really Save One Million Jobs?

By David L. Littmann | Nov. 21, 2010

Analysis: Detroit Students Hostages to the Union

By Michael Van Beek | Nov. 18, 2010

Union Leadership Supported Bernero, Many Members Vote Snyder

By Tom Gantert | Nov. 16, 2010

Big Labor Fights Against Lansing Entrepreneurs … and Virg Bernero?

By Ken Braun | Nov. 15, 2010

A Union Pension Bailout During the Lame Duck Season in Congress?

By Tom Gantert | Nov. 9, 2010

Minimum Wage for Thee But Not for Me?

By Jarrett Skorup | Nov. 6, 2010

Government Unions: The Real Wealth in American Politics

By Ken Braun | Oct. 29, 2010

Michigan's Mixed Messages on Trade With China

By Tom Gantert | Oct. 28, 2010

Teacher Union Doubles Republican Count on Recommendation List

By Tom Gantert | Oct. 23, 2010

Michigan Loses $2.5 billion Yearly Income; Right to Work States Gain Billions

By Tom Gantert | Oct. 21, 2010

New GOP House Candidate Is One of Top Recipients for Teacher Union Money

By Ken Braun | Oct. 20, 2010

MEA Republicans

By Jack McHugh | Oct. 20, 2010

Should China Stop Buying From Michigan?

By Tom Gantert | Oct. 15, 2010

Bailout Wal-Mart?

By Jarrett Skorup | Oct. 13, 2010

Court’s inaction allows illegal stealth unionization to continue

Sept. 24, 2010

Court Rules Again for Zombie Child Care Agency

By Tom Gantert | Sept. 24, 2010

EduJobs Bill a "Gift to Unions"

By Tom Gantert | Sept. 14, 2010

Mackinac Center Video: Gov. Granholm Boasts of Role in Forced Unionization of Home Day Care Workers

Aug. 5, 2010

The Auto Bailout Payback

By Tom Gantert | Aug. 1, 2010

Union Lawyer Admits in Court that Stealth Unionization Is a 'Slippery Slope'

By Tom Gantert | July 14, 2010

MEA Lawsuit May Be Against Policy That They Already Endorsed

By Tom Gantert | July 6, 2010

Small Biz vs. Big Labor

By Tom Gantert | July 3, 2010

Troy City Service Privatization Plan Rolls Forward

By Tom Gantert | June 28, 2010

Analysis: The Man Who Would Be (Bob) King

By Paul Kersey | June 24, 2010

Union PAC Money and Michigan's Members of Congress

By Ken Braun | June 7, 2010

Employee Records Hard to Come by at Mysterious State Child Care Agency

By Tom Gantert | June 5, 2010

Forced Unionization: Big Labor's Last Stand?

By Tom Gantert | June 2, 2010

Warren Board Member: "MEA Will Eat Their Young"

By Tom Gantert | May 31, 2010

Union Leader's Claim of School Kids Sitting on Floors Draws More Denials

By Tom Gantert | May 31, 2010

Critics Say Congressman McCotter Supports “Bailout” of Union Pensions

By Ken Braun | May 29, 2010

Michigan Is Tops for Toughest Job Search

By Tom Gantert | May 28, 2010

Warren Schools: Plenty of Desks, But Not Enough Cost-Cutting?

By Tom Gantert | May 27, 2010

Stealth Unionization Plot Survives Another Attempt to Kill It

By Tom Gantert | May 22, 2010

Strings May Be Attached When a Politician Has the Union Label

By Tom Gantert | May 19, 2010

Senate Seeks Another Way to Kill Forced Unionization of Child Care Providers

By Tom Gantert | May 14, 2010

Moss Message: Champagne Bubbles

May 13, 2010

Analysis: Senate GOP Fumbles, May Approve $25.9 Billion Taxpayer Liability to Satisfy MEA

By Jack McHugh | May 10, 2010

Zombie State Agency Finally Talks to Lawmakers

By Kathy Hoekstra | April 30, 2010

Death for Ann Arbor's 'Living Wage'?

By Tom Gantert | April 29, 2010

Stealth Unionization: Action and Inaction

By Kathy Hoekstra | April 22, 2010

A Pair of Republicans Help House Dems Dump Right-to-Work

By Ken Braun | April 19, 2010

Analysis: The UAW could still tear Detroit down

By Paul Kersey | April 14, 2010

Michigan Public Employees Compensation Growing Despite Concessions Claims

By James M. Hohman | March 31, 2010

Bill Allowing State Nurses to Collect Pensions While Still Working Passes Overwhelmingly

By Ken Braun | March 29, 2010

Reality Check: Did State Workers Already Give at the Office?

By Tom Gantert | March 28, 2010

Secretive State Department Told to Fess Up to Taxpayers

By Tom Gantert | March 12, 2010

State Agency That Had Funds Cut by Legislature Says Future Looks Bright

By Tom Gantert | March 6, 2010

The Saga of Forced Unionization

By Tom Gantert | March 4, 2010

Michigan Unemployment Payments May Fuel More Unemployment

By Tom Gantert | March 3, 2010

State Government Employee Unions Prosper in Midst of Recession

By Paul Kersey | Feb. 25, 2010

Wayne State's 'Wholly Owned Subsidiary' of Big Labor

By Ken Braun | Feb. 8, 2010

GOP Senators, SEIU Taxpayer Giveaways, Campaign Cash and More, OH MY!

By Jack McHugh | Dec. 15, 2009

State House Endorses Demise of Workplace Secret Ballot

By Paul Kersey | May 28, 2009

The Lowdown

Feb. 26, 2009