Maybe we need to read history before we start changing it.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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North Carolina is a right-to-work state, but that hasn't stopped labor unions from trying to find new ways to boost their membership. Bruce Clarke, president and CEO of Capital Associated Industries, addressed the John Locke Foundation's Shaftesbury Society in 2014 on the topic...
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2015 @ 5:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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American labor unions are in serious decline and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has become nothing more than a legal enforcer for panicked union bosses.
Published: Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 @ 8:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Dana Cope has stepped on some powerful toes during his tenure as head of the state employees union here in North Carolina. Most of them have been on the starboard side of the political spectrum.
Published: Thursday, February 12th, 2015 @ 3:49 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Author Amity Shlaes had heartening words for conservatives when she spoke at a Civitas event this fall.
Published: Friday, December 5th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It appears the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) have been providing free office space for years to the local branch of an organization with close ties to state and national, politically-active teacher unions.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 10:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Labor unions and "moral" activists have once again somehow convinced a few of the poorest and least educated workers in the Triangle to walk off their jobs and demand publicly that they all be priced out of work and their jobs be taken by machines.
Published: Friday, September 12th, 2014 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has a genuine teacher recruitment and retention crisis. But it has nothing to do with tales of teacher discontent spun by the mainstream media, special-interest groups, and teacher unions.
Published: Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We are seeing today the possibilities of management/labor cooperation in some places vs. abuse from either side against the other.
Published: Friday, June 13th, 2014 @ 1:53 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Success has many fathers, as the old saying goes, while failure is an orphan.
Published: Saturday, July 6th, 2013 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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And in this high-stakes election year, we're talking not just about our economic woes but also about tough issues such as abortion, a racially charged shooting in Florida, and a North Carolina measure that would create a constitutional prohibition against same-sex marriage and civil unions.
Published: Monday, March 26th, 2012 @ 1:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On the anniversary of George Washington's birth, Jay Carney, White House mouthpiece, tells us that the Reps caused the Keystone XL pipeline to be disapproved by the anointed one.
Published: Sunday, March 11th, 2012 @ 9:28 am
By: Jim Bispo
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President Barack Obama once again placed leadership aside to take the opportunity to do what he does best - campaign to friendly crowds. It the President finds an unfriendly crowd, he does what he knows best: he becomes a "man of the People," "really listens to the People."
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2011 @ 1:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On August 4, a federal court in California struck down the gay marriage ban, popularly known as Proposition 8, and handed a victory to thousands of gays and lesbians.
Published: Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 @ 1:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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