Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind (47 page)

63
Nina L. Floro, “Beyond the Convention Hall and into the Classroom: Finding a Lesson at the 2009 CFT Convention,”
Advocate
, May 2009,
http://www.publicschoolspending.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/advo5-09.pdf
, accessed March 2012;
Trouble in the Hen House: A Puppet Show,
California Federation of Teachers,
http://www.cft.org/uploads/LIS/trouble%20in%20the%20hen%20house.pdf
.

64
Trouble in the Hen House: A Puppet Show
.

65
”Committee Curricula,” California Federation of Teachers,
http://www.cft.org/index.php/component/content/article/40-uncategorized/309-committee-curricula.html
.

66
Olson, p. 160, citing Bob Bigelow and Bob Peterson,
Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
(Wisconsin: Rethinking Schools Ltd., 2002).

67
Olson, p. 1.

68
Olson, p. 3.

69
Olson, p. 162. “Labor in the Schools Committee,” California Federation of Teachers,
http://www.cft.org/index.php/committees/105.html
, accessed May 2012.

70
Howard Zinn,
Transforming Teachers Unions: Fighting for Better Schools and Social Justice
(Wisconsin: Rethinking Schools Ltd., 1999).

71
Patrick J. Finn and Mary E. Finn, eds.,
Teacher Education with An Attitude
(Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2007), p. 5.

72
Denise Konkol, “Muskego-Norway Says Thanks But No Thanks to NEA Grant for Activism,”
MuskegoPatch
, October 27, 2011,
http://muskego.patch.com/articles/muskego-norway-says-thanks-but-no-thanks-to-nea-grant-for-activism
, accessed December 2011.

73
Phyllis Schlafly, “How Did We Get a Federal Curriculum?”
Eagle Forum
, February 13, 2002,
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2002/feb02/02-02-13.shtml
, accessed January 2012.

74
Jonathan M. Seidl, “Shocking Vid: Wis. HS Students Admit Teachers Bringing Them to Protests But Don’t Know Why They’re There,”
TheBlaze
, February 16, 2011,
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shocking-vid-wis-hs-students-admit-teachers-bringing-them-to-protests-but-dont-know-why-theyre-there/
, accessed December 2011.

75
Daniel Halper, “In Wisconsin, Teachers Take Students from Class to Protest,”
The Blog
(blog),
Weekly Standard
, February 16, 2011,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wisconsin-teachers-take-students-class-protest_550230.html
, accessed December 2011.

76
Seidl, “Shocking Vid.”

77
Sarah Palin, “Union Brothers and Sisters: Seize Opportunity to Show True Solidarity,” Sarah Palin’s Notes, Facebook, February 18, 2011,
http://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/sarah-palin/union-brothers-and-sisters-seize-opportunity-to-show-true-solidarity/10150093967618435
, accessed January 2012.

78
“Teachers, Students Protest Cuts to Education,” Associated Press, May 13, 2011, available at
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/05/13/teachers-students-protest-cuts-to-education/
, accessed December 2011.

79
Katherine Mangu-Ward, “Teachers Unions versus Online Education,”
Reason
, August–September 2010,
http://reason.com/archives/2010/07/20/teachers-unions-vs-online-educ/singlepage
, accessed February 2012.

80
“CTYOnline Accelerated Math for Elementary Students,” Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth,
http://cty.jhu.edu/ctyonline/information/Elementary_Math_Courses.html
.

81
Tamar Lewin, “M.I.T. Expands Its Free Online Courses,”
New York Times
, December 19, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/education/mit-expands-free-online-courses-offering-certificates.html
, accessed February 2012.

82
Stanford on iTunes U can be accessed at
http://itunes.stanford.edu/index.html
.

83
Mangu-Ward, “Teachers Unions versus Online Education.” Several states like Oregon and Wisconsin have already severely capped online virtual charter schooling in their states.

84
“The Condition of Education: Homeschooled Students,” National Center for Educational Statistics, April 2011,
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_hsc.asp
, accessed December 2011.

85
Brian D. Ray, “Homeschool Population Report 2010: 2.04 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2010,” National Home Education Research Institute,
http://www.nheri.org/HomeschoolPopulationReport2010.pdf
, accessed February 2012.

86
“The Condition of Education: Private School Enrollment,” National Center for Educational Statistics, April 2011,
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_pri.asp
, accessed December 2011.

87
This assumes a 79 percent overall rate of unionization of these workers and dues of $600 to $1200 per worker. Moe, 54–55.

88
Michelle Malkin, “The EduJobs III Bailout,”
MichelleMalkin.com
, October 19, 2011,
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/10/19/the-edujobs-iii-bailout/
, accessed January 2012.

Chapter 6. Shadowbosses Bankrupt Our States

1
Eileen Norcross, “Public-Sector Unionism: A Review,” Working Paper no. 11-26, Mercatus Center, May 2011,
http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/WP1126-Public-Sector-Unionism.pdf
.

2
Many states are looking for ways to declare bankruptcy and get protections against their debts, although current law does not permit it. Mary Williams Walsh, “A Path Is Sought for States to Escape Their Debt Burdens,”
New York Times
, January 20, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/business/economy/21bankruptcy.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=state%20bankruptcy&st=cse
, accessed February 2012.

3
Ibid.

4
Gregory White, “Here Are the 10 U.S. States Most Likely to Default,” Money Game,
Business Insider
, July 16, 2010,
http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-11-us-states-most-likely-to-default-2010-7
, accessed January 2012.

5
Tad DeHaven, “State Dependency on the Federal Government,”
Cato @ Liberty
(blog), January 23, 2012,
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/state-dependency-on-the-federal-government/
.

6
“Country Comparison: Public Debt,” 2011 figures, The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency,
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2186rank.html
, accessed February 2012.

7
Steve Forbes, “For Whom The Greek Bell Tolls,”
Forbes.com
, July 18, 2011,
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0718/opinions-steve-forbes-fact-comment-greek-bell-tolls.html
, accessed January 2012.

8
Chris Edwards, “Public Sector Unions and the Rising Cost of Employee Compensation,”
Cato Journal
, Winter 2010, pp. 87–115,
http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj30n1/cj30n1-5.pdf
, accessed February 2012.

9
As Eileen Norcross notes, “The parties at the negotiating table share similar goals and benefit from the expansion of public spending, and may do so in a manner that, in the short-run, obscures the full cost of the bill.” Norcross, “Public-Sector Unionism: A Review,” p. 22.

10
Edwards, “Public Sector Unions and the Rising Cost of Employee Compensation.”

11
Arthur Laffer, “The States Are Leading a Pro-Growth Rebellion,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 11, 2012,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203711104577201391354733460.html
, accessed April 2012.

12
Randall G. Holcombe and James D. Gwartney, “Unions, Economic Freedom and Growth,”
Cato Journal
, Winter 2010, pp. 1–22,
http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj30n1/cj30n1-1.pdf/pubs/journal/cj30n1/cj30n1-1.pdf
, accessed February 2012.

13
Calculated from the national, state, and area employment, hours, and earnings databases on
http://www.bls.gov
—the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website.

14
Steven Malanga, “Yes, There’s Bloat in NJ’s Schools,”
New York Post
, April 9, 2010,
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/yes_there_bloat_in_nj_schools_ngZJRi9YViWlhzeHc4nmWP
, accessed February 2012.

15
See
http://unionstats.com
—the Union Membership and Coverage Database, a website maintained by Drs. Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson.

16
This calculation is based on the national, state, and area employment, hours, and earnings databases on
http://www.bls.gov
—the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website.

17
Nicole Gelinas, “New York’s Next Fiscal Crisis,”
City Journal
(Manhattan Institute), Summer 2008,
http://www.city-journal.org/printable.php?id=2699
.

18
Daniel DiSalvo, “The Trouble With Public Sector Unions,”
National Affairs
, Fall 2010,
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-trouble-with-public-sector-unions
, accessed December 2011.

19
“A Tale of Two Counties,” editorial,
Washington Post
, May 30, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/29/AR2010052903132.html
, accessed February 2012.

20
“Public Employee State Law Monopoly Bargaining Chart,” National Right to Work Committee (2011), on file with the authors.

21
“A Tale of Two Counties.”

22
Union Membership and Earnings Database, maintained by labor economists Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson,
http://www.unionstats.com
. Workers covered by a union contract are workers whose collective bargaining rights have been assigned to a union. Not all of these workers would actually join the union, although in forced-dues states all of these workers will have to pay dues or fees to the union. See NRTW Committee Staff, “Top Union Boss Huffs and Puffs, But Cannot Blow the Facts Down,” National Right to Work Committee, June 2010,
http://www.nrtwc.org/top-union-boss-huffs-and-puffs-but-cannot-blow-the-facts-down/
, accessed February 2012.

23
See the Union Membership and Earnings Database.

24
Right-to-work states provide workers with express right-to-work protections, but some other states don’t provide their workers with these express protections but also don’t allow forced-dues collection in practice either. Of the twenty-two Free states, eighteen are right-to-work states; Colorado, Kentucky, and Missouri don’t allow forced-dues collection from government employees. New Mexico does allow forced-dues provisions under which workers are fired if they don’t pay fees or dues to the union that represents them.

25
“Top Union Boss Huffs and Puffs, But Cannot Blow the Facts Down.”

26
According to this report, the most likely to default states are: Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Ohio, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, California, and Illinois. Gus Lubin, “The 10 States Most Likely to Default,” Money Game,
Business Insider
, May 20, 2010,
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-states-most-likely-to-default-2010-5
, accessed February 2012. Despite its title, the web article listed only nine states, plus New York City, as the gravest default risks in the United States. The determination of which states are most likely to default was based on market data for the credit default swaps for the state, which relates to how much a party would have to pay to insure against a default by the state or locality.

27
“Top Union Boss Huffs and Puffs, But Cannot Blow the Facts Down.”

28
However, one of the most-likely-to-default states was Nevada, a right-to-work state.

29
The number of private sector jobs fell in these nine states by about 4 percent over a ten-year period ending 2009; but over the same time period, state and local government jobs increased by 9 percent. Ibid.

30
For example, in the states that have less than 40 percent of government workers unionized, the median per capita state debt in 2007 was more than $2,200. Among states with “between 40 and 60 percent” of government workers unionized, the median debt was more than $3,600. David Freddoso, “Public Sector Unions and State Debt Go Hand in Hand,”
Washington Examiner
, April 4, 2010,
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/public-sector-unions-and-state-debt-go-hand-hand
, accessed February 2012.

31
See, for example, “How U.S. Land Use Restrictions Exacerbated the International Finance Crisis,” Demographia, April 2008,
http://www.demographia.com/db-overhang.pdf
, accessed February 2012. Demographia is a website focusing on land-use policies. See also “Reforming Regulation to Reduce New York’s Exorbitant Cost of Living,” New Yorkers For Growth,
http://www.newyorkersforgrowth.com/reforming-regulation.asp
, accessed February 2012.

32
Mark Robyn and Gerald Prante, “State-Local Tax Burdens Fall in 2009 as Tax Revenues Shrink Faster Than Income,” Special Report, Tax Foundation, February 23, 2011,
http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/22320.html
, accessed February 2012.

33
The Hon. Talmadge Heflin and Katy Hawkins, “Trends in State Government: State Government Spending,” Policy Brief, Texas Public Policy Foundation, October 2010,
http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2010-10-PB05-StateSpendingTrends-th-kh.pdf
, accessed February 2012.

34
Edwards, “Public Sector Unions and the Rising Cost of Employee Compensation.”

35
Ibid.

36
Larry Kudlow, “Madison Madness,”
National Review Online
, February 18, 2011,
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/260135/madison-madness-larry-kudlow
, accessed January 2012.