The teachers who (at the behest of United Teachers of Los Angeles union officials) kept hundreds of thousands of children out of school for more than a week reaped little benefit from the strike.
Oklahoma state Rep.-elect Toni Hasenbeck is a seventh grade teacher and 2018 candidate who publicly disagreed with union chiefs on key issues like taxes and charter schools. She won in November by a 1,600-vote margin. Credit: Toni Hasenbeck campaign photo…
Teamsters Local 25 members Daniel Redmond (L) and Robert Cafarelli (C) enter the federal court in Boston, Massachusettes, U.S., July 31, 2017. REUTERS/Nate Raymond ‘Legitimate Union Goals’ Defense Pays Off For Big Labor Lawyers At a federal trial concluding August…
The Massachusetts AFL-CIO hierarchy admits that the extortionate threats and violence allegedly perpetrated by Boston Teamsters kingpin Mark Harrington (pictured) and his cohorts are “deeply problematic.” Nevertheless, union lawyers insist, such crimes must not be prosecuted under the federal Hobbs…
A federal indictment issued last fall charges Boston Teamster bosses and militants with perpetrating an extortion scheme against a popular cable television show. Soon after the indictment came down it became clear that Ken Brissette (pictured), Big Labor Boston Mayor…
Chicago Buckling Under the Weight of Government-Union-Boss Abuses (source: National Right to Work December 2015 Newsletter) A little over a century after it was memorialized by poet Carl Sandburg as the “City of the Big Shoulders,” Chicago is struggling…
Last week multiple media outlets reported for the first time about ugly “protests” allegedly staged by Teamster Local 25 militants in Beantown early this summer when an episode of the popular cooking show Top Chef was filmed in Milton, a…
Looks like more people are waking up to the reality that the Freedom from Union Violence Act needs to be passed now. Weekly Standard: Last week provided a good reminder that…
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…