According to the Detroit News, the Department of Labor announced $100 million worth of taxpayer-funded grants have been handed out and Big Labor unions are now flush with cash. In Missouri, the United Auto Workers received a $3.2 million grant,…
The National Right to Work Committee (NRTWC) released its first Obama Personnel Alert of 2010 exposing the ongoing failure of President Obama’s ethics pledge and executive order as it relates to ethics and transparency in his administration. According to…
Beware politicians touting “green jobs.” That has become the new code word for “union-only” jobs. Look no further that Maryland Sens. Mikulski and Cardin touting new “Green Job Training in Maryland.” In fact, these taxpayer grants are going to the SEIU…
The United Teachers Union of Los Angeles has filed suit over the establishment of a charter school campus designed to relief classroom overcrowding at a local high school that was the basis of the movie Stand and Deliver. Union officials…
The Washington Examiner reports on how Virginia’s Right to Work law allows states to implement reforms that offer better educational opportunities for children: An inability to remove bad teachers from the classroom has stymied education reform in Maryland and the…
In New Hampshire, the Obama Administration attempted to force a union-only construction contract requirement, known as a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), on a federal construction project. The PLA would have forced workers to pay into union pensions, as well as…
A California state worker hopes to recover from a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose…
As California goes, so goes the nation — in this case that would be great! It was exciting to see the Orange County Board of as Supervisors (latimes.com) ban the use of forced unionism, Public Labor Agreements for county construction…
Illinois Gov. Quinn’s and the SEIU’s embarrassing defeat in their effort to unionize home health care workers has emboldened Maryland health care workers who face the same fate, thanks to Gov. Martin O’Malley. A government bargaining order O’Malley signed with…