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MACDONALD: VT Needs an Amendment to Ban Gov. Unions

Before any Vermonters vote on a constitutional amendment that makes it impossible to avoid the corrosive cultural rot of union power, check this out. The National Education Association Vermont chapter also asserts that the state’s public school teachers must acknowledge the nation’s “white supremacy culture” as responsible for “white privilege” that is “conferred irrespective of … Read more

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ROPER: This Will Make Vermont Less Affordable

The proposed Constitutional Amendment, Proposal 3, that Vermonters will vote on this election began its journey in 2023 as part of the Democrat Supermajority’s radical, all-you-can-pass smorgasbord of policy-payoffs-to-special-interests agenda, along with the Clean Heat Standard, Renewable Energy Standard, the new pre-K payroll tax, Act 181, etcetera. And, what does it have in common with … Read more

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PAGE: States Without Right-to-Work Have Higher Taxes, Living Costs, Fewer Private Sector Jobs

The Fiscal Alliance Foundation released a new white paper today showing how some other states with heavy union influence and without Right-to-Work laws suffer from declining jobs and growing taxation and cost of living.  The report examines Proposal 3, the proposed constitutional amendment on the November general election ballot, in the context of Vermont’s current … Read more

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PAGE: Dems Race To Protect Their Union Cash Cow

Democrats and their union allies are racing to constitutionalize their power base with Vermont’s Prop 3. This amendment would lock the right to organize, join unions, and force collective bargaining into the state constitution while explicitly banning any future right-to-work laws. In plain terms: once it’s in, no legislature can ever make union membership optional or stop … Read more

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ROPER: Heads Unions Win, Tails You Lose

When Vermonters vote this November (or, more accurately, when Vermonters vote at some point between September 24th and November 3rd during our ludicrous election-month-and-a-half), we will have to decide whether or not to pass yet another constitutional amendment, this one called Proposition 3, or “The Right to Collectively Bargain.” Just going to say up front, … Read more

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Morning Update: Vermont Dumb

Vermonters will have the opportunity to enshrine two stupid ideas into their constitution this November. Both are Bad Ideas, and to my mind do exactly the opposite of what they claim or intend. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep 230 Links: Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their … Read more

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KLAR: Beef Plant Strike Exposes Food Supply Vulnerabilities

JBS Foods is battling its workers at a Colorado facility over wages and other policies the local union claims are unacceptable. Workers launched a strike against the company on March 16, exposing the economic tensions among corporations, workers, and consumers. The strike also highlights the problems with communism compared to free markets. The JBS Strike … Read more

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CLINE: NH Could Be the First State To Let Non-Union Public Employees Negotiate Their Contracts

New Hampshire led the American colonies 250 years ago by adopting a constitution that created an independent government before anyone else. So it’s fitting that in 2026, New Hampshire could achieve another first for independence. Like all Americans, government employees have the constitutional right to free speech and free association. In 2018, the U.S. Supreme … Read more

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MACDONALD: Union Gets Uppity About #WOKE Teachers Getting Fired

In the wake of a rise in teacher firings (for celebrating a public execution), the Massachusetts Teachers Association is demanding that districts and colleges defend their educators. “The ongoing campaign by extreme-right conservatives to discredit and defund public education has grotesquely exploited the shooting death of Charlie Kirk to launch attacks against people commenting on … Read more

Mitchell: House Panel Probes Taxpayer Dollars Sent to Left-Wing Groups

(Associated News Service) Left-leaning nonprofits receive taxpayer dollars in three key ways—through government contracts and grants, indirectly through government unions, and through taxpayer-funded union time—Daily Signal Senior Editor Tyler O’Neil told a House panel Tuesday.  “Federal employees in a union give part of their taxpayer-funded paychecks to the union, ostensibly for representation in bargaining for perks like … Read more

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Roper: A Final Plea for Property Tax Relief

In 2024, when Vermont property taxpayers were whacked with an average 14 percent year over year increase, with some communities seeing nearly 40 percent increases, nobody (or at least not enough) in the legislature asked if citizens could afford this. They just shrugged their shoulders and stuck us with the bill. Same as every year … Read more

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Special Interests Versus the Children

Just a reminder here that former National Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker once admitted, “When schoolchildren start paying dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.” True that! And watching the debate in the legislature over how to reign in public education costs and improve student outcomes, I think that sentiment resides … Read more

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Special Interests Versus the Children

Just a reminder here that former National Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker once admitted, “When schoolchildren start paying dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.” True that! And watching the debate in the legislature over how to reign in public education costs and improve student outcomes, I think that sentiment resides … Read more

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The Right-to-Work Freeloader Fallacy

Labor unions negotiate benefits on behalf of all employees of a collective bargaining unit, not just their own members, unions say. Since non-members receive the benefits, they should be compelled to pay the union for negotiating them.  Because right-to-work laws forbid non-union employees from being compelled as a condition of employment to pay any portion … Read more

The Teamsters Have Evolved From Horse And Buggy To AI

I have to preface this article by disclosing I have never been a fan of labor unions, having been in management or ownership my entire career. Still, because I drive a school bus in my retirement, I have been a Teamster for five years. I recently watched Tucker Carlson interview Teamsters National President Sean O’Brien, … Read more

To Dems The Election is More Important Than the Supply Chain

The longshoremen all along the east coast, from Maine to Texas, went on strike this week, bringing the vital shipping ports to an abrupt stop. The 45,000 men who keep the goods Americans buy and those American manufacturers ship overseas are on strike. These men feel underappreciated and fearful of their jobs as the seaports … Read more

Another Dumb Constitutional Amendment….

The Democrat/Progressive Supermajority in Montpelier isn’t just oblivious to reality. They are actively hostile to it. One has to conclude that they are purposefully attempting to destroy our state economy because nobody could actually be this stupid by sheer accident.

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