Unions
Hiding behind opaque numbers
Nevada PERS accounting practices are concealing taxpayers’ real liabilities
Nevada PERS accounting practices are concealing taxpayers' real liabilities in the public pension system.
Union power, organizers ‘behind’ Occupy Las Vegas
Big labor steering protestors away from disrupting Democratic events, planning to ‘shut down the Strip’
Big labor is steering protestors away from disrupting Democratic events and is planning to ‘shut down the Strip.’
White House: $1.3 billion more in Nevada will 'create' 10,000 new jobs
President's jobs bill gives money to same government organizations, employees as first stimulus bill — yet expects far better results
History suggests that President Obama's job-creation predictions regarding the American Jobs Act are off base.
Records reveal 90 percent of North Las Vegas firefighters live outside city
Non-resident firefighters, police funded political war against cost-conscious Democrat
NLV police and firefighter unions, filled with non-residents, funded political war against cost-conscious Democrat.
Hidden Obamacare provision routed money to insider unions, governments, businesses
House committee questions ‘wholesale waste’ of tax money
A House committee is questioning the 'wholesale waste' of tax dollars.
Who Really Prevails Under Prevailing Wage?
Nevada governments waste billions in subsidies to union labor
Prevailing wage laws in Nevada undermine competition on the labor market and drive up construction costs borne by state taxpayers
Unions prevail, while most Nevadans struggle
Prevailing wage laws cost taxpayers billions
Nevada's prevailing wage law is costing taxpayers billions.
Bound and gagged
Union negotiations marked by compulsion, secrecy and predation
Union negotiations are marked by compulsion, secrecy and predation.
Wait … you say there’s a recession?
Previously insulated public employees now feeling shock
While private-sector workers have suffered through the recession, their public-sector counterparts have been raking it in.
Playing with the PERS
Lawmakers should not seek to influence investment decisions
Constitutional provisions prohibit the Nevada Legislature from dictating how money in the Public Employees' Retirement System is invested. However, in the final days of the recent legislative session, state lawmakers passed a law attempting to do exactly that.
