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    Utah governor calls special session to consider repeal of public-unions bill

    December 9, 2025 // A special session at the Capitol has been called for Tuesday, and one of the biggest items on the agenda is a possible repeal of repeal of H.B. 267. The public-sector union law passed earlier this year. The move followed a huge referendum effort. More than 320,000 Utahns signed a petition to put the law on the 2026 ballot. Instead of letting voters decide, lawmakers may repeal the law themselves.

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    Op-Ed: Many federal public union employees remain AWOL

    May 28, 2024 // "I'll get these people back to work if I have to send in troops to get them." – Joe Biden In response to Biden's plans to end "federal work at home offices" last week, the White House Office of Management issued a time sensitive guidance for agencies to “substantially increase productive in-person work at Federal offices, particularly at headquarters and their equivalents.” Biden's mandate went over like a lead balloon with federal unionized employees who were told that Biden's harsh decree to return to work possibly violated their union contract.

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    How a Liberal State Defies the First Amendment

    July 12, 2022 // Frank Ricci — a retired firefighter and former president of the New Haven Firefighters Local 825, and now the Yankee Institute’s Fellow of Labor & Special Initiatives — says that opt-out windows “equate to a dues grab where the union picks the pockets of their workers who are trying to leave.” Besides the money, it’s about power: The “small print of membership cards,” Ricci says, “are designed to trap the worker into membership.” The tactics result in “defying the Janus decision and increasing the union’s political power.” Michael Costanza, Constitution State Educators, Christina Corvello,

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