Media Mentions – Week of October 5, 2014

Media Mentions – Week of October 5, 2014

Media Mentions – Week of October 5, 2014

Red State – Diabolical Unions Use ‘Living Wage’ Schemes To Betray And Undermine Workers

Across the nation, unions are using so-called ‘living wage’ campaigns as part of a scheme to unionize workers. However, behind their humanitarian-sounding living wage campaigns is a heinous plot that puts workers into unions, but betrays them by affording unionized employers the ability to pay less than the unions’ so-called living wage.

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News Max – ‘Living Wage’ Breathes Life Into Unions

Politics is a cynical business, but occasionally even I’m taken aback by a particularly breathtaking example. Democrats in Los Angeles, Seattle and other hotbeds of market interference have recently been passing what are called “living wage” ordinances that drastically increase the minimum wage.

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North Jersey – Mandatory Paid Sick Leave: The Wrong Prescription for New Jersey

THIS THURSDAY, the state Assembly Labor Committee will hear a bill that would force employers in New Jersey to provide paid sick leave. Several cities — including Jersey City, Newark, and Paterson — have already passed similar laws at the urging of activist groups like the labor-union-aligned New Jersey Working Families Alliance.

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Sky Valley Chronicle – Lawsuit Filed Against City of Shelton Following Its Decision to deny “Labor Reform” Initiatives a spot on November Ballot

On September 9 The Stand, a Washington State labor newspaper reported that a “right-wing group’s attempt to impose anti-union “right-to-work” collective bargaining restrictions on city governments in Washington state suffered a major setback as its propositions were deemed illegal by city officials in both Sequim and Shelton.”

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Go Lake Chelan – Chelan City Council Ignores the Law, Silences Citizens

In 1983, the city of Chelan gave its residents the power to create local laws by citizen initiative. When cities confer the power of citizen initiative, they take on additional responsibilities — to respect the ideas brought by petitioners and to act in accordance with their own rules.

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