Unions push back against labor's ties to liberal groups
AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka’s effort to throw Big Labor completely into the progressive camp has hit a road bump with some AFL-CIO members questioning the wisdom of the effort.
SEIU Goon: If We Don’t Raise Minimum Wage Fast Food Workers Will Contaminate Your Food…
SEIU activists pushing a massive increase in the minimum wage threatened to contaminate your food is you don’t agree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTOX09YNllg&feature=player_embedded…
Unions Heal Thyself
Nicole Gelinas looks at how big labor monopoly power has bankrupted cities and the end result is their retirees are getting the shaft because of it. Imagine you’re a retiree with chronic health problems on a fixed income, but…
McConnell blames public worker unions for Tea Party targeting
The Hill reports that Sen. Mitch McConnell argues that it was the IRS union that set the tone for the extra scrutiny agents gave the Tea Party and other conservative groups. IRS agents were taking cues from union leaders…
Cash Accumulated Through 'Mandatory Dues Checkoffs' Gives Maryland Union Bosses 'Special Influence Over State Government'
In a commentary published this Monday (see the link below), Washington Post writer Charles Lane observes that an “appalling” scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center offers Marylanders a lesson that “experience elsewhere has already taught many times”: Good governance…
'I Think We're Very Happy to Have the Jobs Back; 300 Jobs Is Better Than Zero Jobs'
It seems that, even in the America of 2013, a country in which consumers are substantially more apt to be health conscious, culinarily “sophisticated,” or both, than they were four or five decades ago, workers can still be profitably employed…
Union Bosses try to stomp on new Right To Work law
From the Muskegon Chronicle’s Steve Gunn: If they can extend their contracts for another two or three years, all their members will…
'I Was Concerned That If They Pushed a Little Harder, My Head Would Be Crushed'
Organized Labor in Philadelphia “has a long history of intimidation, harassment, vandalism, violence — and impunity,” reports Jillian K. Melchior of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity a few paragraphs into a three-part investigation appearing in National Review…
Teacher Union Boss -They “were ready to kill”
The boss of the Chicago Teacher's Union talked about killing rich people and her audience got a big chuckle: The Chicago Teachers Union is not just about looking out for its members’ interests. The union wants to fundamentally changeAmerica, too. That shift occurred when the radical Karen Lewis was elected as its president two years ago. She’s best known for mocking U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s lisp and for taking on – and defeating – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the district’s first teachers’ strike in a generation. CTU leaders have been on a victory lap of sorts since the September strike, with union activists seeing themselves as protectors of union power during a time of membership decline and education reform at the state and local level. They’ve also taken on the role of social activities, fighting for causes like the Occupy movement and gay marriage, which have nothing to do with education. Some union leaders have called for violence and other radical tactics to achieve social goals.