Ann Marimow is a good reporter and I respect her work. But in her Sunday Post article, “Union Influence Sways Montgomery Budget Talks,” I believe she overstates her case. Montgomery…
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Labor Between the Hammer and the Anvil
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As Montgomery County’s budget battle draws to a clamorous climax, a new bomb has been dropped.Yesterday, Council Member Trachtenberg sent the following letter calling for a 2 percent cost of…
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Montgomery County Council Member Nancy Floreen challenged all county agencies to present a plan to cut their budgets by 2% below the County Executive’s proposal on her blog today.Floreen contends…
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Challenge to the Unions, Part Two
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In Part One, we reported on County Council Member and Management and Fiscal Policy Chairwoman Duchy Trachtenberg’s letter to public employee union MCGEO offering a choice between layoffs and COLA…
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The Post is reporting that the O’Malley administration plans to allocate $46.3 million in school construction aid to Montgomery County, less than the $55 million he promised in last year’s…
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Regular readers will recall how Montgomery College told its adjunct professors that they were “not public employees” in order to avoid allowing them a union election. Now the college is…
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Are MoCo Public Employees Overpaid?
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Yesterday, the Post reported on growing disagreements between Montgomery County leaders over compensation paid to county employees. Labor costs account for 80% of the county’s $4.3 billion budget and the…
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More Union Busting at Montgomery College
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I’ve seen quite a few union-busting tactics in my time but the latest one used by Montgomery College against its adjunct professors ranks as one of the most creative.A couple…
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Getting to Know the Real Montgomery College
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A reprint of a forthcoming Montgomery County Sentinel column by Wayne Goldstein. Montgomery College is in the news these days in some very unflattering ways. The first is because the…
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In Part Three, we began examining the FAQ sheet that Montgomery College sent to its adjunct faculty to spread propaganda about unions. We demonstrated how the administration tried to make…