Big Labor for Coakley -- It's lonely out there!
Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley’s campaign was so dependent on big labor, “it was all we had,” one Democrat political consultant said.
Massachusetts Invaded
The Purple Army of SEIU agitators are heading to Massachusetts to try to elect SEIU water-carrier Martha Coakley to the open Senate seat.
SEIU Jumps In Mass
With their forced unionism agenda threatened, the SEIU has jumped into the Massachusetts Senate race with an attack ad against Republican Scott Brown. The ad buy is a cool $685,000 — straight from the coffers of workers dues money.
$100 Million Handout
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,…
Secretary Solis and Other Top-Level Obama Appointees Gave Themselves Waivers from Obama’s Executive Order on Ethics
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…
Green Jobs are SEIU Jobs
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…
Union Bosses Sue to End Charter School
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…
Right to Work Means Better Education for Kids
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…
Forced Unionism Stopped in New Hampshire -- for Now
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…