Tags: Public Unions

If state is willing to guarantee it will actually make its payments

It's a jobs program, isn't it?

A good time to go and hide

Nice priorities

Solutions a far cry from dealing with issues of sustainability

Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan has dropped his quest, on which he spent a reported $500,000, to gather signatures for a ballot initiative that would have replaced defined-benefit pensions for city employees with 401(k)-style defined-contribution plans.

Was trying to get effort invalidated

Sets up website explaining how state employee pension debts are squeezing out other spending

The longstanding love affair between Democrats and organized labor is on the rocks.

Riordan petitioning to push city employees onto 410(k)-style plans

Lost nearly $16 billion in last fiscal year

More per year than Marine Corps lieutenants get for life

Voters thumbs-downed accountability and reforms in several states

What about a union that protects citizens' rights? Oh, that's the government?

If California voters pass Proposition 32, unions, corporations, and government contractors would be prohibited from donating to political candidates and from deducting money from workers’ paychecks to use for political purposes.

There's more to the political season than analyzing every utterance by Obama and Romney.

Border guards want their job security