Posts tagged political activities

    Op-ed / Commentary ● Corruption Labor

    Stephen Bloom: Reforms would reduce corruption and restore workers’ rights

    February 14, 2022 // It is illegal for any other organization or individual to use taxpayer resources for campaign politics, but government unions have an exemption from rules designed to prevent corruption. Thanks in large part to this special privilege, these unions are one of the largest, most powerful special interest groups in Pennsylvania.

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    Blog ● Unionization

    Federal Charge: IAM Union Bosses Illegally Demanded Mechanic Join Union, Caused Firing When He Refused Unlawful Demand

    February 7, 2022 // Remmington Duk, who recently worked as a mechanic at the Robert Basil Buick GMC dealership in Orchard Park, has filed federal charges against the International Association of Mechanics (IAM) Lodge 447 union and the dealership. Duk’s charges say that IAM agents illegally threatened to have him fired in October 2021 because he exercised his right not to be a union member, and that Robert Basil officials followed through on this threat at IAM officials’ behest and terminated Duk less than a week later.

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    Blog ● Unions

    Paycheck protection needed to prevent government payroll from funding partisan political activism

    January 19, 2022 // But a proposed “paycheck protection” bill would end this practice by prohibiting school districts, and other public employers, from automatically deducting contributions to political action committees out of employee wages.

    AFFT AFSCME Americans for Fair Treatment Broad + Liberty Commonwealth Foundation Danielle Acker Susanj Fairness Center First Amendment HB 2048 House Labor and Industry Committee Kevin Mooney PAC PACs Paycheck Protection Pennsylvania State Education Association political activities PSEA public employee unions Rep. Ryan Mackenzie school districts SEIU SEIU COPE Service Employees International Union Committee on Political Education Stephen Bloom Taxpayer resources unions Voluntary contributions wage deduction

    News Article ● Labor

    Pennsylvania Unions Ignore SCOTUS Ruling, Keep Forcing Teachers To Pay Dues

    December 2, 2021 //

    Abington Heights Education Association AHEA Americans for Fair Treatment City of Jeannette David Osborne David Perrotti dues East Stroudsburg fair share Fairness Center Janus Janus v. AFSCME Justice Samuel Alito Kevin Mooney membership Nathan McGrath New Kensington-Arnold Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Public School Employees Pennsylvania State Education Association political activities SCOTUS Steel Valley Supreme Court teachers