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Found on Halt the Assult, recently The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore wrote in the Political Diary, “It’s rare these days for unions to suffer a political setback, but the California election results in early June were a big defeat. Now a business group that played a key role in the battle is ready to expand its efforts.”

As we explore what the unions have done to shape the current economic crises it is organizations like Association of  Builders & Contractors (ABC) that continue to fight the power grabs.

“The Associated Builders and Contractors spearheaded a successful effort in two California cities to rein in rules that require union labor on state construction projects. Now the group is aiming to repeat its success statewide.”

There have been many wins, but there is still a long road to haul as only a handful of states have banned PLAs.  Moore wrote, “A handful of states have repealed such “project labor agreements.” PLAs have been banned by gubernatorial executive order in Minnesota and Arkansas. Legislatures in Utah, Missouri and Montana have also acted to ban or partially ban these pro-union agreements.”

ABC is putting up the good fight, and we need to come together and support thier efforts in our own states until the battle is won.

Girard Miller is the Public Money columnist for GOVERNING and a senior strategist at the PFM Group.  In a recent article Miller stated, “So the compensation system is clearly dysfunctional here. We have massive labor supply and no demand, yet public employee compensation and benefits remain “sticky downward” as the great economist John Maynard Keynes observed.”

Miller is proposing that the arbitration methods have led to a strong downward decline in the ability to offer compensation packages that make sense in the long term.    As an example Miller points out what has happened in California:

“If you look back at how California got itself into its current pension mess, a lot of it came from the “me-too” bargaining strategies of public safety unions that worked their way up into irrevocable pension formulas, granting them lifetime income at 3 percent of salary times years of service once they reach age 50.”

In the end Miller is looking for drastic changes in the arbitration rules simply because as a nation we will be looking at dire circumstances unless these changes happen.  Miller finalized his thoughts with, “Something has to change in the states’ arbitration laws, or we will find ourselves becoming more and more like Greece and other European states that have dug themselves into inescapable financial holes.”

To read the entire article:

The Arbitration Game

Another big Union Company creating problems for the Non Union competitor.We as Americans all have a choice, where we choose to work and who we choose to work for. With big union corruption and harrasment threating and intimidating the small business owners and their workers where do we draw the line. Do the big unions have more rights than the small business owners ? I am beginning to think so. Why do they have more rights and why are they allowed to do things we would never do as Americans or small business owners. I thought it was a FREE country and we as American have a FREE CHOICE !!!!! Do We ?

                                                          UPS & Teamsters against federal Express

This article will give you information on unions and how they will and have affected the economy. It will also give detail and help you to understand how unions work and how corrupt some of them have become. It is a great article from a Great source.                

What Unions Do- How Labor Unions Affect Jobs and the Economy

This is a great site. If you are a business man or an employee of a NON-UNION company it will help you to understand  what your rights are . It seems the Big Unions are growing stronger and more corrupt each day. Each of us as an American has a free choice about where we work and who we work for….. Lets all work together to keep it that way !!!!!!!!!!

Visit Today: National Right to Work Legal Defense & Education

Read the story of two companies, one a unionized shop, and the other not.  They both put in a bid for a project.  The non-union shop just happens to put in a lower bid.  However, they lose the bid, simply because they are a non-union shop.  This just doesn’t seem right.

Read this story and let us know what you think of the bidding process being distorted in this way.