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Dennis Richardson
Dennis Richardson
stated on June 30, 2011 a press briefing:
Says Oregon state employees received a "catch-up" pay raise in 1981 -- just two years after they agreed not to take a raise in exchange for a retirement benefit.
False
By Janie Har • September 2, 2011
Joseph Andriole
Joseph Andriole
stated on August 2, 2011 a TV story:
The Central Falls fire department is "one of the lowest, if not the lowest, paid fire departments in the state and entire region."
Mostly True
By Lynn Arditi • August 28, 2011
Stephen Lisauskas
Stephen Lisauskas
stated on July 19, 2011 a public meeting:
Thirty-seven percent of Central Falls’ retired police officers and firefighters are out on disability pensions; in most municipalities, about 5 percent of retirees collect disability pensions.
False
By Lynn Arditi • August 18, 2011
Alberta Darling
Alberta Darling
stated on July 29, 2011 a TV ad and campaign flier:
Says state Rep. Sandy Pasch, her recall opponent, "voted to allow public school employees to use taxpayer dollars to pick up the tab for…Viagra."
Pants on Fire!
By Dave Umhoefer • August 5, 2011
Sheila Oliver
Sheila Oliver
stated on July 8, 2011 a press release from Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex):
"Numerous studies have shown that these so-called right-to-work laws do not generate jobs and economic growth."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • July 15, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on April 29, 2011 a speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Education:
"When the union says I want to eliminate tenure, that’s not true."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • June 21, 2011
Steve Loomis
Steve Loomis
stated on May 9, 2011 a news conference:
Says the state’s new collective bargaining law effectively eliminates police unions' ability to negotiate.
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • June 15, 2011
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on May 15, 2011 an interview:
The Providence teacher contract "is one of the longest in the country."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 24, 2011
Crossroads GPS
Crossroads GPS
stated on May 18, 2011 a Web ad:
"Unions don’t have to comply with Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 23, 2011
AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO
stated on April 28, 2011 a news release:
"There are not, nor have there ever been, any boycotts encouraged by our organizations."
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • May 15, 2011
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 22, 2011 a news release:
Says Milwaukee County spent over $170,000 in salaries in 2010 for employees to "participate in union activities such as collective bargaining."
True
By Tom Kertscher • May 8, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 14, 2011 a Senate committee hearing:
"Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall."
True
By Tom Feran • April 25, 2011
Florida Education Association
Florida Education Association
stated on April 6, 2011 a campaign-style ad.:
"Politicians and their corporate lobbyists are trying to take away my right to spend my paycheck how I want."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • April 13, 2011
Florida Chamber of Commerce
Florida Chamber of Commerce
stated on March 29, 2011 a campaign-style ad.:
Says unions "take away" hard-earned money of teachers, firefighters and police officers to play politics.
False
By Aaron Sharockman • April 13, 2011
George Nee
George Nee
stated on March 20, 2011 a television interview:
"Public sentiment in favor of collective bargaining and in favor of the unions has actually gone up as these governors, I think, have overreached and gone too far and tried to destroy the labor movement."
Mostly False
By Peter Lord • March 31, 2011
Calvine Rollins
Calvine Rollins
stated on February 27, 2011 an op-ed:
Georgia public sector employees do not have a say in the conditions of their employment, do not have bargaining rights or a say in their working conditions.
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • March 30, 2011
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