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Americans for Fair Treatment exists to support public sector employees who are being bullied or harassed by their union. (Photo: Shironosov/Getty Images) Public employees across America are growing weary of unions that do not represent their interests, says Elisabeth Kines, the national executive director of Americans for Fair Treatment.  Kines helps public sector employees, such as teachers, to understand their First Amendment rights and to stand up to union pressure. She says conservatives ...

RI EDUCATION Providence superintendent: ‘We’ve paid more than $400,000 in union dues for people that don’t exist’ The city school department is refusing to pay any more, but the president of the teachers union argues that the district is attempting to “exert authority they don’t have.” By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated April 1, 2021, 7:52 p.m. Email to a Friend R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, left, and Providence Public Schools Superint...

Repair the Crumbling Infrastructure of the American Labor Movement Biden’s plan would allocate billions to transportation and manufacturing. But will it also do what’s necessary to build back the country’s unions? Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A former public affairs aide for the AFL-CIO once told me he spent most of his day fielding queries from conservatives. Most liberals outside the Rust Belt lost interest in organized labor decades ago; only now are they starting, tentatively, to thi...

Supreme Court shows a little impartiality By Bill Knight The U.S. Supreme Court last week cleared the way for a New York prosecutor to get former Donald Trumps tax returns, essentially ending the ex-President’s years-long fight to keep his financial records secret. Issued without comment (much less a dissent) the ruling received considerable attention. However, exactly four weeks before, there was much less notice when the Justices foreshadowed such impartiality, if not independence, by rejec...

The foundation, which represents Melissa Belgau and six other state employees in Belgau v. Inslee, filed a request for certiorari after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled against them in September. The Washington workers are not alone. Public employees in at least 11 states have challenged post-Janus restrictions on exiting unions, but the foundation’s case, Belgau v. Inslee, marks the first to reach the Supreme Court since the 2018 decision in Janus v....

By Capitol News SPRINGFIELD—Gov. JB Pritzker pushed back on criticisms of the state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout Thursday, Jan. 29, saying state officials are “doing everything we can” to ensure timely delivery of doses. Illinois currently ranks 47th among all 50 states in vaccine distribution, with 4.8% of the state’s 12.7 million residents having been vaccinated so far. The state has issued 829,488 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Thursday, with only 1.4% of the state’s po...

By Sarah Mansur & Capitol News Illinois • Jan 26, 2021 Credit US Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a case Monday that sought to compel public employee unions to reimburse nonmember employees for mandatory fees which the court ruled as unconstitutional in 2018. The case was brought by Mark Janus, a former Illinois government employee whose original lawsuit resulted in the landmark 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision, “Mark Janus v. American Federation for State, Co...

Supreme Court Won’t Make Government Unions Give Back Unconstitutional Dues While Mark Janus won a landmark legal victory in 2018 outlawing public-sector unions’ collection of forced agency fees from nonmembers, the Supreme Court has denied his follow-up request to have his money reimbursed, without granting him a hearing. The new ruling in which the high court refused to consider the petition for certiorari in Janus v. AFSCME, which bears the same title of proceeding as the landmark ruling,...

By 1961, Charles Koch had stacked up three engineering degrees and was back home in Wichita, Kansas, to join the family business of oil refining, pipelines, and manufacturing. His father, Fred, was at the time attempting to tackle a different sort of engineering challenge: how to get unions, Communists, and big government off his back. The Nazi sympathizer Koch patriarch fought against unions in Kansas, and when the John Birch Society convened its inaugural meeting in 1958—initially composed ...

Government unions invested $10M in Madigan, but could that end in 2021? Government unions invested $10M in Madigan, but could that end in 2021? Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan has funded a lot of campaigns – and his legal defense – with money from government unions. Even if unions still back him in the New Year, members have options. For the first time in 35 years, the Illinois House may be ringing in the new year and the new session with a new speaker.   House Speaker Mike Madig...