Labor
Did you hear about the guy who tried to unionize the unions office and got fired (h/t)? Jim Callaghan, a veteran writer for the [United Federation of Teachers] union, told The Post he was booted from his $100,000-a-year job just two months after he informed UFT President Michael Mulgrew that he was trying to unionize…
Matt and I discussed the federal government’s billion dollar giveaways to states to make up for their poor management and failure to adjust to the economic times, on last night’s Matt Allen Show. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
Last night Monique and Tony Cornetta talked, on the Matt Allen Show, about Iran, teachers’ unions, and partisan ethics. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
Faced with an insurmountable $13 million cut in state and local funding, the Warwick School Committee voted to freeze pay and impose a 20% health care co-pay for all of its employees last night. Before the vote, School Committee Chairman Chris Friel stressed that these are not actions the district wants to take but it…
This mindset is well beyond my capacity for sympathy, and almost incomprehensible: Trains stood still and children played instead of going to school as workers around France went on strike to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to raise the retirement age to 62. Neighboring countries suffered along with Paris commuters as walkouts by drivers delayed…
It could just be that I’m in my annual phase of presummer burnout, or it could be an indication of the complexity that Big Government imposes on a democratic society — to such degree that it ceases to be possible for the individuals who comprise that democracy to function as they must — but the…
Circumstances have made me slow to respond to this, and my position will hardly be a surprise, but I did want to express — ahem — solidarity with RIGOP Chairman Gio Cicione (as well as the RI Young Republicans) on the matter of crossing a union picket line to hold a Central Committee meeting at…
Two factors are obvious in making Rhode Island school committees behave as if authority over the jobs is ultimately a weak card in negotiations: Some members see giving as much money as possible to teachers as one of their rightful objectives (whether they’re teachers, themselves, or have some other reason for alliance), and other members…
Well, it’s certainly not rocket science, but it’s nice to know that New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie and I have come to the same conclusion when it comes to schools’ supposed funding problems (subscription required): In the last three years, state and local government-employee compensation grew 9.8 percent, compared with 6.9 percent in the private…
In an article about securing union approval of Rhode Island’s application for federal Race to the Top education funds: [NEARI President Larry] Purtill also said he is carefully monitoring the acrimonious situation in East Providence, where the School Committee last year unilaterally cut teachers’ wages, forced teachers to pay more of their health insurance costs…
