Union-Only Port Terminal Suspends Operations
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
What do those fighting back criticism of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have in common? Most are fueled by political contributions from union bosses.
The Hill newspaper details how George Miller (D-CA) and the “American Rights at Work” (Obama Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis used to be the Treasurer for this AFL-CIO front group.) are working together to defend the NLRB’s outrageous attack on Boeing employees and South Carolina’s Right to Work law. Miller has received millions from labor union PACs over his decades in Congress and the group “American Rights at Work” is a big labor front group funded by the union bosses.
It’s too bad the newspaper didn’t connect the dots for their readers.
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
According to AFSCME Local 1632 President Will Harmon, Columbus Water & Power committed a grievous offense by subcontracting out the job of clearing away invasive weeds and brush spread out across two acres of its property to a tribe of roughly 40 goats without first “negotiating” with Big Labor.
One longtime IAFF official who is now in the spotlight for his crass denigration of “two-hatters” -- that is, professional firefighters who also serve as volunteers -- is Pennsylvania Democrat politician Bob Brooks.