http://renohayek.com/2010/01/unions-and-excessive-government-compensation/ Articulating conservative solutions to current issues & supporting their intelligent champions Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://renohayek.com/2010/01/unions-and-excessive-government-compensation/comment-page-1/#comment-4678 Tom Motherway Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:12:10 +0000 http://renohayek.com/?p=901#comment-4678 UPDATE: See Lloyd Billingsley's article of February 16, 2010, "Declining unions, increasing stranglehold." <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20100216/OPINION05/100216047/1068/OPINION/Declining-unions-increasing-stranglehold?GID=Fa1cxbcUXb49tGeUWBInXpPPuV2wHMKZu/iIszFlMNU%3D." target="_blank">http://www.freep.com/article/20100216/OPINION05/1...</a> tjm UPDATE: See Lloyd Billingsley's article of February 16, 2010, "Declining unions, increasing stranglehold." http://www.freep.com/article/20100216/OPINION05/1… tjm

]]> http://renohayek.com/2010/01/unions-and-excessive-government-compensation/comment-page-1/#comment-4523 Who Owns Obama and the Democrats? « Reno Hayek Symposium Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:01:43 +0000 http://renohayek.com/?p=901#comment-4523 [...] Unions. According to the latest figures overall union membership as a percentage of the workforce has held steady with 2008 at 12.4% and 2009 at 12.3%. Within that overall group, however, the private sector unionization declined from 7.6 to 7.2% while the public sector grew from 36.8 to 37.4%. It’s no secret that Obama favored the unions over the bondholders in his nationalization of GM and Chrysler. Nor is it a secret that his most frequent visitor is Andy Stern who will let you know what they spent to get Obama elected! Oh, and about 1 million of the federal work force are union members, 28% of the wage and salary workforce. As to the effects of this, see my post of January 7th Unions and Excessive Government Compensation. [...] [...] Unions. According to the latest figures overall union membership as a percentage of the workforce has held steady with 2008 at 12.4% and 2009 at 12.3%. Within that overall group, however, the private sector unionization declined from 7.6 to 7.2% while the public sector grew from 36.8 to 37.4%. It’s no secret that Obama favored the unions over the bondholders in his nationalization of GM and Chrysler. Nor is it a secret that his most frequent visitor is Andy Stern who will let you know what they spent to get Obama elected! Oh, and about 1 million of the federal work force are union members, 28% of the wage and salary workforce. As to the effects of this, see my post of January 7th Unions and Excessive Government Compensation. [...]

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