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21
See Stephen Hayes and John McCormack, “On Wisconsin! How Republicans Won the Battle of Madison,”
Weekly Standard
, March 21, 2011,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/wisconsin_554095.html
, accessed February 2012.

22
“In Wisconsin, Big Labor Politicians Help Make Right-to-Work Case,”
Daily Caller
, March 30, 2011
http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/30/in-wisconsin-big-labor-politicians-help-make-right-to-work-case/
, accessed February 2012.

23
“Wisconsin’s Battle Supreme,” editorial,
Wall Street Journal,
March 25, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576218793987334696.html
, accessed January 2012.

24
Patrick Marley and Don Walker, “Supreme Court Reinstates Collective Bargaining Law,”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
, June 14, 2011,
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/123859034.html
, accessed February 2012.

25
George Will, “Liberals’ Wisconsin Waterloo,”
Washington Post
, August 24, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/liberals-wisconsin-waterloo/2011/08/23/gIQArm5GcJ_story.html
, accessed January 2012.

26
Larry Sandler, “Milwaukee to See Net Gain from State Budget,”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
, August 8, 2011,
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/127269673.html
, accessed January 2012.

27
Moe Lane, “Wisconsin Labor Union Reform: Saving Jobs, Money, Schools,” RedState, July 26, 2011,
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/07/26/wisconsin-labor-union-reform-saving-jobs-money-schools/
, accessed January 2012.

28
Steven Moore, “The Most Important Non-Presidential Election of the Decade,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 28, 2012,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204573704577186830049178636.html?KEYWORDS=wisconsin+budget+reform
, accessed February 2012.

29
Moore, “The Most Important Non-Presidential Election of the Decade.”

30
George Will, “Liberals’ Wisconsin Waterloo,”
Washington Post
, August 24, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/liberals-wisconsin-waterloo/2011/08/23/gIQArm5GcJ_story.html
, accessed February 2012.

31
Moore, “The Most Important Non-Presidential Election of the Decade.”

32
“A Wisconsin Vindication,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 16, 2012,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432704577348080124322186.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
, accessed April 2012.

33
Mark Walsh, “Mixed Court Decision for Wisconsin Anti-Union Law,”
School Law
(blog),
Education Week
, April 2, 2012,
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/school_law/2012/04/mixed_court_decision_for_wisco.html
, accessed April 2012; Wisconsin Education Association Council v. Walker, No. 3:2011cv00428 (W.D. Wisc. March 30, 2012), available at the Wisconsin Department of Justice website,
http://www.doj.state.wi.us/news/files/opinion-order-20120330.pdf
, accessed April 2012.

34
“Ohio Gov. Kasich Signs Controversial Union Bill,” Newsmax, March 31, 2011,
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Ohio-union-bill-JohnKasich/2011/03/31/id/391365
, accessed February 2012.

35
“A Wisconsin Vindication.”

36
Christian Schneider, “Why Ohio Is Not Wisconsin,”
The Corner
(blog),
National Review Outline
, November 9, 2011,
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/282720/why-ohio-not-wisconsin-christian-schneider
, accessed January 2012.

37
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.

38
Ibid.

39
Jason Hart, “Ohio Workers Keep Losing Thanks to Big Labor’s Win,” RedState, January 17, 2012,
http://www.redstate.com/jasonahart/2012/01/17/ohio-workers-losing-thanks-to-big-labor/
, accessed January 2012.

40
Squawk Box
, CNBC, May 27, 2010.

41
Athena Merritt, “Christie Signs N.J. Budget That’s 9% Lower Than Last Year,”
Philadelphia Business Journal
, June 29, 2010,
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2010/06/28/daily14.html?page=all
, accessed February 2012.

42
Lisa Fleisher, “Gov. Christie Outlines Cuts to N.J. Workers’ Pension, Benefits,”
(Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger
, September 15, 2010,
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/gov_christie_outlines_cuts_to.html
, accessed January 2012.

43
Bob Luebke, “House Votes to End Dues Check Off Benefit for NCAE,” John W. Pope Civitas Institute, January 5, 2012,
http://www.nccivitas.org/2012/house-votes-to-end-dues-check-off-benefit-for-ncae/
, accessed January 2012.

44
John Frank, “GOP overrides veto of bill to weaken teachers group,”
CharlotteObserver.com
, January 5, 2012,
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/01/05/2899853/gop-passes-late-night-bill-to.html
, accessed January 2012.

45
Kyle Olson, “Tennessee Trumps Wisconsin: Kills Teacher Collective Bargaining. Dead.”
Biggovernment.com
, June 5, 2011,
http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/06/05/tennessee-trumps-wisconsin-kills-teacher-collective-bargaining-dead/
, accessed February 2012.

46
“Fallin Signs Municipal Collective Bargaining Repeal,” Capitol Beat OK, April 29, 2011,
http://capitolbeatok.com/_webapp_3887193/Fallin_signs_municipal_collective_bargaining_repeal
, accessed February 2012.

47
Abby Goodnough, “Massachusetts House seeks to limit collective bargaining,”
New York Times
, April 4, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/business/economy/30massachusetts.html
, accessed February 2012.

48
Kimberley Strassel, “Union busting, Massachusetts Style,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 29, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704463804576291240909536676.html
, accessed February 2012; Jennifer Levitz, “Massachusetts curbs bargaining,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 2, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303763404576420294248965916.html
, accessed February 2012.

49
Letter from President Robert J. Haynes, Massachusetts AFL-CIO, April 15, 2011,
http://www.massaflcio.org/node/196671
, accessed February 2012.

50
Hillary Chalbot, “Governor Patrick Signs $30.6 Billion State Budget,”
Boston Herald
, July, 11, 2011,
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0711gov_patrick_signs_306b_state_budget
, accessed February 2012.

51
Ivan Osorio and Trey Kovacs, “Labor Unions and the Democratic Party,” Labor Watch, Capital Research Center, July 2011,
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1309465576.pdf
, accessed January 2012.

52
Osorio and Kovacs, “Labor Unions and the Democratic Party.”

53
Jon Ward, “Democrat Caddell rips White House for obeisance to organized labor,”
Daily Caller
, February 17, 2010,
http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/17/democrat-caddell-rips-white-house-for-obeisance-to-organized-labor/
, accessed January 2012.

54
“WCBS 880 Interview: NJ St. Sen. Pres. Stephen Sweeney Talks Politics, Credit, And More,” CBS New York, June 29, 2011,
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/06/29/wcbs-880-interview-nj-st-sen-pres-stephen-sweeney-talks-politics-credit-and-more/
, accessed January 2012. See Associated Press, “Chris Christie, Stephen Sweeney Are New Jersey’s Odd Couple,”
Politico
, May 21, 2011,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55416.html
, accessed January 2012.

55
Daniel Massey, “Union Membership in New York Slips to New Low,”
Crain’s New York Business
, February 22, 2012,
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120222/LABOR_UNIONS/120229975#ixzz1nDbn4oAa
, accessed February 2012.

56
Lachlan Markay, “Unions Defend Keystone Opposition: We Have to Support Obama!”
The Foundry
(blog), Heritage Foundation, January 24, 2012,
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/24/unions-defend-keystone-opposition-we-have-to-support-obama/
, accessed January 2012.

57
Ibid.

58
Indiana’s new right-to-work statute applies only to private sector workers—not to any state or local government workers, although some public sector employees already had right-to-work protection. For example, collective bargaining was already prohibited for most state employees by a law enacted in 2011. That law also contained specific right-to-work protection, even though state workers
who don’t have forced union representation can’t have forced dues. But that law specifically does not cover state police, state educational institutions, and local government workers. Indiana has had right-to-work protections for teachers on the books for many years—but not for other public school employees or for other local government employees. So this means that all government workers in Indiana already had right-to-work protections except: state police, state educational institution employees, and (nonteacher) local government employees such as police, firefighters, school employees, and others, who still do not have such protections.

Conclusion

1
Liberty Chick, “Union Bosses Target 86-Yr Old Volunteer Crossing Guard,”
BigGovernment.com
, February 11, 2010,
http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2010/02/11/union-bosses-target-86-yr-old-volunteer-crossing-guard/
, accessed January 2012.

2
Ibid.

3
Labor Union Report, “AFSCME Bosses still want 86 year old volunteer crossing guard fired,”
Redstate.com
, February 8, 2010,
http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2010/02/08/afscme-bosses-still-want-86-year-old-volunteer-crossing-guard-fired/
, accessed April 2012.

4
Pete Peterson, “No Volunteers, Please, We’re Unionized,”
City Journal
, November 30, 2011,
http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon1130pp.html
, accessed January 2012.

5
“Pennsylvania Union Leader Resigns Amid Criticism for Threatening Legal Action over Boy Scout’s Volunteerism,”
Fox News
, November 23, 2009,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576438,00.html
, accessed January 2012.

6
U.S. v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973).

7
Ronald Reagan, “Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on the Air Traffic Controllers Strike, August 3, 1981,” The American Presidency Project,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=44138#axzz1shzndo8C
, accessed April 2012.

Welcome

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1
   Meet the Shadowbosses

Chapter 2
   The Union Fist

Chapter 3
   Follow the Money

Chapter 4
   Union-Label President

Chapter 5
   Schoolhouse Shadowbosses

Chapter 6
   Shadowbosses Bankrupt Our States

Chapter 7
   Corruption and Conspiracy

Chapter 8
   Shadowboss Battle Plan

Chapter 9
   Insurrection

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Praise for Shadowbosses

Newsletters

Notes

Copyright

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