Chicago’s Fran Eaton calls the effects of forced unionism as she sees it: Just when that house begins to teeter is when the bullies really get mean and desperate. We’re seeing that now at the federal level. Unions want to…
Another day, another SEIU (Service Employees International Union) scandal.
A high-ranking Midwest officer of the Service Employees International Union [SEIU], who had been serving as trustee of a financially troubled local, has resigned after being accused of billing the labor organization for $9,000 in personal expenses. The Chicago-based…
From the Wall Street Journal: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was preparing to issue an executive order prior to his arrest last week [December 9, 2008] that would have allowed union organizing of home-care workers that could have benefited a…
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has released a new video. According to the Foundation’s release: The Fox affiliate in Chicago investigated disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s corrupt relationship with the powerful Service Employees International Union (SEIU). We’ve…
The website Pro Publica that offers “Journalism in the Public Interest” peeks behind the curtain and reveals a long co-dependent relationship between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
It’s not often the New York Times opens its eyes and gives its readers a headline like this — “Union Linked to Corruption Scandal.”…
The governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, has been arrested, and it’s no surprise that union activists appear to be involved in the scandal. On page 69 of the criminal complaint against the Governor, government pleadings mention discussions with an “SEIU…
The controversial Card Check Scam Bill is causing a “quandary” for Barack Obama, according to his hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune. Calling the bill one of the “thorniest issues his administration will face,” Obama is being squeezed between his union…