Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind (45 page)

58
Don Loos, e-mail to the authors, March 15, 2012.

59
James Sherk, “Labor Unions on Health Care: Their True Motives,” Heritage Foundation, September 8, 2009,
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2009/09/labor-unions-on-health-care-their-true-motives
, accessed January 2012.

60
Loos, “21.1 Million Reasons.”

61
“SEIU: Building a New American Health Care System,” booklet, Service Employees International Union,
http://www.seiu.org/SEIUHCstory/SEIU%20healthcare%20reform%20booklet.pdf
.

62
Mandy Nagy, “SEIU: Building a New American Health Care Empire?”

63
For a detailed discussion of Obamacare’s treatment of Cadillac plans, see Jenny Gold, “Cadillac plans explained,”
Kaiser Health News
, March 18, 2010,
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/March/18/Cadillac-Tax-Explainer-Update.aspx
, accessed January 2012.

64
Michelle Malkin, “The Year in Obama Scandals—and Scandal Deniers,”
MichelleMalkin.com
, December 28, 2011,
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/12/28/the-year-in-obama-scandals-and-scandal-deniers/
, accessed January 2012.

65
Dr. Milton R. Wolf, “Obamacare Waiver Corruption Must Stop,”
Washington Times
, May 20, 2011,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/20/obamacare-waiver-corruption-must-stop/
, accessed December 2011.

66
“ObamaCare’s Billions In Hidden Pork For Unions,”
Investor’s Business Daily
, November 3, 2011,
http://news.investors.com/Article/590517/201111031841/ObamaCares-Union-Slush-Fund.htm
, accessed December 2011.

67
Ibid.

68
Jena Baker McNeill, “TSA Privatization Freeze: More Politics Than Security,” WebMemo #3130, Heritage Foundation, February 2, 2011,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/02/tsa-privatization-freeze-more-politics-than-security
, accessed January 2012.

69
“TSA Administrator: ‘We Will Not Negotiate on Security,’ ” press release, Transportation Security Administration, February 4, 2011,
http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2011/0204.shtm
, accessed January 2012.

70
Rory Cooper, “Putting Politics over Security, Obama Moves to Unionize TSA,”
The Foundry
(blog), Heritage Foundation, February 16, 2011,
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/02/16/morning-bell-putting-politics-over-security-obama-moves-to-unionize-tsa/
, accessed January 2012.

71
10 U.S. Code 976. See also 32 CFR 143—DOD Policy on Organizations that Seek to Represent or Organize Members of the Armed Forces in Negotiation or Collective Bargaining.

72
Department of Defense, Implementation Plan for Executive Order 13522—Creating Labor-Management Forums to Improve Delivery of Government Services, May 5, 2010,
http://www.cpms.osd.mil/ASSETS/6ED1D73CDAE34512BB14A42C47847921/DOD_ImplementationPlan_EO13522.pdf
, accessed May 2012.

73
Implementation Plan for Executive Order 13522, Department of Homeland Security, March 8, 2010,
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/mgmt/mgmt_eo_implementation_plan_13522.pdf
, accessed May 2012.

74
Ibid. Unionizing these national security workers “reduces the government’s flexibility when defending the country,” James Sherk writes. James Sherk, “Opportunity, Parity, Choice: A Labor Agenda for the 112
^th
Congress,” The Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis, Special Report #96, July 14,
2011,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/opportunity-parity-choice-a-labor-agenda-for-the-112th-congress#_ftnref82
, accessed April 2012. See also “National ICE Council,”
http://www.iceunion.org/
; “National Border Control Council,”
http://www.nbpc.net/
.

75
See National Collective Bargaining Agreement Between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and National Treasury Union Employees, May 11, 2011,
http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/careers/benefits_employees/bargaining_agreement.ctt/bargaining_agreement.pdf
, accessed May 2012; Statement of Colleen M. Kelley, National President, National Treasury Employees Union, on Building One DHS: Why is Employee Morale Low?, Testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Management, March 22, 2012.

76
“AFGE Certified as Exclusive Union at TSA,” press release, AFGE, June 29, 2011,
http://www.afge.org/Index.cfm?Page=PressReleases&PressReleaseID=1296
, accessed April 2012.

77
Federal employees also aren’t compelled to join unions or forced to pay dues, but 1,185,000 federal employees were union members or were represented by a union in 2011. “Table 3. Union affiliation of employed wage and salary workers by occupation and industry, 2010-2011 annual averages,” Bureau of Labor Statistics,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t03.htm
, accessed April 2012.

78
Kimberley A. Strassel, “Union Power for Thee, But Not for Me.”

79
Executive Order 13,522; “Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments/Agencies and Labor Management Forums,” Unites States Office of Personnel Management, January 19, 2011
http://www.fedsmith.com/articles/records/file/2011/Pre_Decisional_2011.pdf
, accessed May 2012.

80
The UAW was traditionally an industrial union, but it now represents both private employees and government workers.

81
Alex Kellogg and Kris Maher, “UAW to get 55% stake in Chrysler for concessions,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 28, 2009,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124087751929461535.html
, accessed March 2012.

82
Newt Gingrich, “Once, We Would Have Called It a Scandal,” Human Events, June 10, 2009,
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32212
, accessed December 2011.

83
Ross Kaminsky, “Government Motors,” Human Events, June 1, 2009,
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32085
, accessed December 2011.

84
Ashby Jones, “Product Liability Winners Made Losers by Big Auto Bailouts,”
Law Blog
(blog),
Wall Street Journal
, May 27, 2011,
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/05/27/product-liability-winners-made-losers-by-big-auto-bailouts/
, accessed December 2011.

85
Gingrich, “Once, We Would Have Called It a Scandal.”

86
Trumka himself says, “Being called a Socialist is a step up for me.” When Trumka ascended to head of the AFL-CIO, he immediately ended the long-standing prohibition on Communist Party members serving in its leadership. The Communist Party of America publically works closely with him, as does our White House. Matthew Vadum, “AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka Is a Thug’s Thug,”
BigGovernment.com
, November 3, 2011,
http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2011/11/03/afl-cios-richard-trumka-is-a-thugs-thug/
, accessed January 2012; Nice Deb, “According to AFL-CIO’s Trumka, He and White House Are Pretty Darn Tight,” NewsRealBlog, February 23, 2011,
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/23/according-to-afl-cio%E2%80%99s-trumka-he-and-white-house-are-pretty-darn-tight/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nrb-feature+%28NewsReal+Blog+%C2%BB+Feature%29
, accessed January 2012.

87
Dana Milbank, “Wanted: More Bite from Obama the Great Nibbler,”
Washington Post
, August 26, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wanted-more-bite-from-obama-the-great-nibbler/2011/08/25/gIQAigGAgJ_story.html
, accessed March 2012.

88
Matea Gold and Melanie Mason, “Unions Return to Democratic Fold for 2012 Election,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 19, 2012,
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/19/nation/la-na-labor-politics-20120220
, accessed March 2012.

89
Jennifer Liberto, “Obama Council Repeats Job-Creating Ideas,”
CNNMoney
, January 17, 2012,
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/17/news/economy/Obama_jobs_council/
, accessed January 2012.

90
Michael Warren, “Immelt, Trumka to Join First Lady at Jobs Speech,”
The Blog
(blog),
Weekly Standard
, September 8, 2011,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/immelt-trumka-join-first-lady-jobs-speech_592909.html
, accessed January 2012.

91
McQuillen, “AFL-CIO Drops Criticism to Endorse Obama.”

92
Michael O’Brien and Kevin Bogardus, “AFL-CIO: Labor Will Stand by Obama,”
The Hill
, August 18, 2011,
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/177271-afl-cio-labor-will-stand-by-obama-
, accessed December 2011.

93
Sam Hananel, “Unions Gearing Up to Spend Big in 2012 Elections,”
Huffington Post
, February 22, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/labor-unions-obama-elections-2012_n_1293173.html
, accessed February 2012.

94
Stephen Sawchuck, “NEA’s Delegates Approve Obama Endorsement, Dues Increase,”
Teacher Beat
(blog),
Education Week
, July 4, 2011,
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2011/07/neas_delegates_approve_obama_e.html
, accessed December 2011.

95
Sixty percent of the assessment would fund the Ballot Measure/Legislative Crisis Fund. The other 40 percent would fund media for political campaigns.

96
Kyle Olson, “Will Third Teachers’ Union Bailout Fund Obama’s Re-Election?”
BigGovernment.com
, September 13, 2011,
http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/09/13/will-third-teachers-union-bailout-fund-obamas-re-election/
, accessed December 2011.

97
Kevin Liptak and Paul Courson, “Endorsing Obama, SEIU Says President for 99%,”
Political Ticker
(blog), CNN, November 16, 2011,
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/16/endorsing-obama-seiu-says-president-for-99/
, accessed April 2012.

98
Ed Barnes, “Obama Draws Fire For Appointing SEIU’s Stern to Deficit Panel,”
Fox News
, March 6, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/05/obama-draws-appointing-seius-stern-deficit-panel/
, accessed January 2012.

99
Wallsten, “AFSCME Votes to Endorse Obama for Reelection.”

100
Various bills have been introduced in Congress to repeal Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act, but none have been successful—yet. See H.R. 6384 (111th Cong.). Section 14(b) states: “Nothing in this Act [subchapter] shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any State or Territory in which such execution or application is prohibited by State or Territorial law.” The text is available at
https://www.nlrb.gov/national-labor-relations-act
.

101
Amanda Palleschi, “Expansion of Federal Collective Bargaining Considered,” Government Executive, February 16, 2012,
http://www.govexec.com/management/2012/02/expansion-collective-federal-bargaining-considered/41227/
, accessed February 2012. It should be noted that President Clinton also mandated that federal agencies had to negotiate these same issues with unions, although Clinton’s administration apparently failed to enforce this expansion. President George W. Bush then removed the mandate.

102
See 5 U.S.C. § 7106(b)(1).

Chapter 5. Schoolhouse Shadowbosses

1
Nathan Rabin, “
Waiting for Superman
Director Davis Guggenheim,” A.V. Club, October 13, 2010,
http://www.avclub.com/articles/waiting-for-superman-director-davis-guggenheim,46295/
, accessed January 2012.

2
OECD,
Education at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators
, table B1.1a, available at
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/61/18/48630868.pdf
.

3
Likewise, we spent in 2008 on secondary students—$12,087 per student. This is 41 percent more spending than Germany, 33 percent more than Japan, 53 percent more than Korea, and 28 percent more than the UK.
Education at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators
, table B1.1a.

4
OECD,
PISA 2009 Results: Executive Summary
, figure 1, OECD,
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/60/46619703.pdf
, accessed December 2011. On the mathematics scale, the United States scored 487; the UK, 492; Germany, 513; Japan, 529; and Korea, 546. On the science scale, the United States scored 502; the UK, 514; Germany, 520; Japan, 539; and Korea, 538.

5
Richard Lee Colvin, “Can Obama Reverse the Dropout Crisis?” Special Report introduction,
Washington Monthly
, July/August 2010, pp. A2–A4.

6
Johanna Sorrentino, “ ‘Waiting for Superman’: What it Means for You and Your Child,”
Education.com
,
http://www.education.com/magazine/article/waiting-superman-means-parents/
, accessed January 2012.

7
“Two Million K–12 Teachers Are Now Corralled into Unions,” Fact Sheet, National Institute of Labor Relations Research, August 18, 2008,
http://www.nilrr.org/files/How%20Many%20Teachers%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
, accessed December 2011. Terry Moe estimates that the two teachers unions make $2.7 billion a year. Terry M. Moe,
Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools
(Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2011), p. 280. Our own analysis confirms this approximate figure as follows: For 2011, the financial disclosure for the national NEA shows dues and agency fee income of $370,805,951. We know from unified dues examples and other
data that the ratio of NEA income to total dues income at NEA/state/local union level is about 25 percent, so we know that the total income for NEA and its state and local affiliates is approximately $1.48 billion. Similarly, for 2011, the financial disclosure for AFT shows dues and agency fee income of $148,388,677. We know from the unified dues examples that the ratio of national AFT dues income to total AFT/state/local union dues income is in the range of 27 to 32 percent. Accordingly, we can estimate that total AFT/state/local union dues collected are in the range of $458 to $535 million for 2011. Therefore, the total amount of dues collected by both teachers unions at the national, state, and local levels is between $1.9 to $2.0 billion for 2011. The teachers union makes income from other sources, as well, so their total income would be significantly higher.