Timothy Snowball – California Globe

Palm Springs union admits unconstitutional conduct in settlement

March 25, 2024 10:46 amMarch 25, 2024 10:46 am

The Public Employees Association of Palm Springs (PEAPS), a small but muscular government labor union representing public employees in the California desert community, has agreed to settle a legal dispute with a public employee alleging the union violated her First...

Recent Legal Battle Latest in War to Protect the American Worker

December 5, 2023 3:00 amDecember 5, 2023 3:01 am

Government labor unions will stop at nothing in their war to undermine the U.S. Supreme Court and diminish the protections afforded public employees by the First Amendment. From the highest echelons of the judiciary to payroll departments across the land,...

Lawsuit Challenges Public Access to LAUSD Employee Orientations

May 8, 2023 12:40 pmMay 8, 2023 12:50 pm

A lawsuit filed on Monday alleges that a California statute, Government Code § 3556, violates the First Amendment by denying the general public access to the dates, times and locations of new government employee orientations – all the while furnishing...

Former Los Angeles Teacher’s Stand Against Union Push to ‘Defund the Police’ Reaches 9th Circuit

January 10, 2023 3:15 pmJanuary 10, 2023 3:30 pm

Former high school teacher Glenn Laird, who two years ago shook the pillars of one of the largest and most powerful teachers’ unions in the United States, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), has now elevated his case to the...

OPINION: Hypocrisy, Corruption and Politicking at one of LA’s Largest Labor Unions

May 23, 2022 1:20 pmMay 23, 2022 1:27 pm

When people want to downplay a situation they don’t think deserves significant attention or scrutiny, they will often say, “Don’t make a federal case out it.” Usually because they’re the ones at fault. But what about when making a federal...

Lawsuit Claims LA Union Slush Fund Scandal Still Ongoing

October 4, 2021 9:11 amOctober 5, 2021 11:20 am

A long-time employee of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging a decades-long shakedown involving the utility and the union representing its workers may have altered its form, but is still...

California School Board Members Flee Meeting Regarding ‘Antifa’ Teacher

September 2, 2021 11:38 amSeptember 2, 2021 12:17 pm

For the past three years, Natomas Unified School District in California has permitted an avowed socialist and member of the local “antifa” chapter to teach American Government at one of its local high schools. And despite repeated student complaints, nothing...