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July 7, 2022

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MOORE: Save the children, fire the teachers unions

January 15, 2022 Stephen Moore

It started in Chicago, where an incredible 91% of union teachers voted to go on strike and refused to do what they get paid to do, which is teach. Then the union walkouts spread to […]

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Ex-UAW leader gets nearly 2 years in prison for corruption

May 11, 2021 Ed White, Associated Press

DETROIT — A welder who rose from the factory floor to become president of a venerable U.S. labor union was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in prison for luxurious winter stays in the California sun […]

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ZITO: Coal workers union doesn’t always represent coal worker values

May 6, 2021 Salena Zito

GRAYSVILLE, Pennsylvania — When coal mine employee John Morecraft heard last Monday that United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts approved of President Joe Biden’s plan to move the nation’s energy industry away from […]

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MOORE: Unions sell out their own workers for the Biden energy plan

April 29, 2021 Stephen Moore

Another pro-President Joe Biden union just told its rank-and-file members: Sorry, guys; you are all fired.  Last week, the United Mine Workers of America union endorsed Biden’s energy policies. Yes, you read that right. The […]

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Union accuses Amazon of illegally interfering with vote

April 22, 2021 Joe Pisani, Associated Press

NEW YORK — The retail union that failed to organize Amazon workers at a Alabama warehouse wants the results of a recent vote to be thrown out, saying that the company illegally interfered with the […]

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BARONE: Workers don’t share Democrats’ nostalgia for unions

April 20, 2021 Michael Barone

It wasn’t even close. The final count was 1,798 against and 738 for, 71% to 29%. The issue in question was whether the employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, wanted to be represented […]

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MOORE: Don’t force workers to join a union

March 22, 2021 Stephen Moore

In 1978, when I was 17 years old, I worked as an usher at concerts and sporting events earning $2.25 an hour, the minimum wage. I had to surrender about 15 cents of this meager […]

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Labor movement targets Amazon as a foothold in the South

March 17, 2021 Bill Barrow, Associated Press

BESSEMER, Ala. — The South has never been hospitable to organized labor. But that may be changing, with an important test in Alabama, where thousands of workers at an Amazon campus are deciding whether to […]

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Muddled promises on schools pose political problem for Biden

March 4, 2021 Alexandra Jaffe, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden is in a political firestorm over how and when to get more schools open during the coronavirus pandemic, with Republicans seizing on confusion surrounding Biden’s goal to reopen a […]

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Amazon faces biggest union push in its history

February 20, 2021 Joseph Pisani, Associated Press

NEW YORK — The second Jennifer Bates walks away from her post at the Amazon warehouse where she works, the clock starts ticking. She has precisely 30 minutes to get to the cafeteria and back […]

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