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Budd urges US Dept of Labor to end Biden-era agriculture regulations
Budd leads effort to roll back regulations that increase costs for farmers.
Opinion
Transparency of operations is a constitutional issue
Senate Bill 355, legislation that promotes and enhances public access to the performance records of public employees, is generating significant resistance from various state organizations that have several things in common—they are all union related and they are determined to continue operating without public scrutiny. The Government Transparency Act of 2021, championed by Sen. Norman...
Opinion
The impending creep of unionization into North Carolina
In February 2019, after months of negotiation, Western North Carolina’s Mission Hospital was sold to HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital company. HCA Healthcare owns 184 hospitals across the U.S. and United Kingdom. Mission is its first hospital in North Carolina. After the sale, complaints from residents were filed in the attorney general’s office, and, on Feb....
Opinion
The voices of those pushing labor unions — in N.C. and nationally — will only get louder
North Carolina law bans government agencies from making contracts with unions and bans public employees from striking. Some people, in North Carolina and throughout America, want to change that. Those people are getting louder. In February, a faction of the N.C. Association of Educators held a webinar, during which candidates for the top two positions...
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2020 candidates take first step as filing officially opens
The 2020 election season starts unofficially today at noon, with the opening of candidate filing for most races. It’s going to be a contentious year, says Michael Bitzer, professor of Politics and History at Catawba College. “In addition to a highly competitive presidential election, there’s a U.S. Senate and a gubernatorial contest, along with likely...
Opinion
What’s Good for the Goose…
The North Carolina Association of Educators, the state’s largest teachers union, is upset with House Speaker Thom Tillis.
Opinion
Democrats’ Risky Stick-Ups
Big business and big labor are institutions with major image problems – except among Democratic politicians and strategists.
Opinion
No Time for Rhetorical Games
If you are going to use the lingo of investment, folks, you have to apply the concept properly.
Opinion
A Union Of Political Strategies
Labor issues aren’t usually considered to be a big deal in North Carolina politics. Things change.
Opinion
Pulp Edwards
The tawdry story of John Edwards' courtship of UNC-Chapel Hill reads like the pages of a dime-store novel.
Opinion
No. 819: Why Would a Worker Need Protection From a Union?
If labor unions had the best interests of workers at heart, the organizations would'nt try to intimidate nonunion employees.
