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Overturning Austerity 101: California’s Prop 15 Will Tax the Rich

California’s November ballot will feature a challenge to the notorious Proposition 13, which in 1978 helped to inaugurate the decades-long neoliberal assault on labor. Prop 13’s anti-tax, small government campaign, with a dog-whistle racist subtext, created a national template for conservatives to simultaneously attack public sector unions, public employees, and the people they served. For the …

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DOJ: To Address “Defective” Accountability System, Chicago Must Renegotiate Police Union Contracts

Public Employees Are Leading the Way on Making Government Work Better

Leave a Comment / Government Workers / By max cyril

Despite being one of the most frequently cited boogeymen of right-wing extremists and the target of bipartisan policies that cut their pay and benefits, government employees are very frequently part of the solution and are leading the way in innovating on new and better ways to work with management and improve services and costs. A …

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9th Circuit: Garcetti Does Not Apply to Public University Employee’s Teaching and Academic Writing

Leave a Comment / First Amendment / By max cyril

For those of you like me that follow the development of First Amendment law in the public employee space, times have recently been depressing for employee advocates in this post-Garcetti world that we now inhabit in the United States. Now comes a pro-employee decision (yes from the 9th Circuit) concerning the application of Garcetti to a public university …

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Strong Grassroots Actions Block Mass. Pension Scheme

Leave a Comment / pensions, union mobilizing, unions / By max cyril

Union members in Swampscott, Mass., this week showed just how grassroots democracy works when a coalition of unions from the North Shore Labor Council mobilized to turn back an attack on public employees’ health care and retirement security. First a little background. In the Bay State, municipal employees’ health and retirement benefits, while negotiated on a local …

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The Truth About Public Employees, the New Convenient Scapegoats

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

It’s become a common refrain: public employees from teachers to parking meter attendants to firefighters to nurses are bleeding state and local budgets dry with exorbitant wages and pensions. As recent news reports and communiqués by conservatives have pointed out, a portion of public sector employees do earn what many middle- and working-class Americans would …

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Puerto Rico’s working families to appeal Governor’s massive layoffs

Leave a Comment / Public Workers, unions / By max cyril

In July 2008, Republican Governor of Puerto Rico Luis Fortuño enacted Law 7 in a two-day period. He then invoked the law in 2009, effectively firing 28,000 employees across all sectors of public services–and all without demonstrating any alternative solutions or proving financial necessity. As a direct result of Law 7, thousands of working people …

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Public Employees Under Attack

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

The people who teach our children, protect us from crime, put out fires in our homes and make sure our water is clean are under attack. Conservative pundits and politicians across the country are using the economic crisis to attack public employees and portray them as privileged compared with everyone else. They use the fact that …

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Target Wall Street Greed, Not Public Employees

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

Too often when economic times get tough, scapegoats are found in the wrong places. Wall Street greed and double-dealing sparked much of the nation’s recent near-financial collapse, yet many in the chattering classes instead are attacking public employees for this rolling recession. Economist Dean Baker puts the situation in perspective: Fifteen million people are not out of …

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public employees

Overturning Austerity 101: California’s Prop 15 Will Tax the Rich

DOJ: To Address “Defective” Accountability System, Chicago Must Renegotiate Police Union Contracts

Public Employees Are Leading the Way on Making Government Work Better

9th Circuit: Garcetti Does Not Apply to Public University Employee’s Teaching and Academic Writing

Strong Grassroots Actions Block Mass. Pension Scheme

The Truth About Public Employees, the New Convenient Scapegoats

Puerto Rico’s working families to appeal Governor’s massive layoffs

Public Employees Under Attack

Target Wall Street Greed, Not Public Employees

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