Sean Harrigan, a union boss with the United Food and Commercial Workers, is under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission, ProPublica reports. In a nutshell, it appears that financial firms showered nearly $1 million in political cash on the United Food…
Flush with cash taken from workers without their consent, the SEIU is bombarding California’s airwaves with a $1 million television ad campaign supporting new taxes on oil and gas, tobacco and liquor. At the pace at which the SEIU is…
The legal eagles at the National Right to Work Foundation have once again have achieved victory for workers discriminated against by both employers and union bosses: Angela Leitzel works as a field technician for Verizon in Tampa, Florida. Because Florida…
The left-wing website Indy Media notes that the SEIU has undertaken “violent shock and awe tactics.” The accusations of violence come from another union — the National Union of Healthcare Workers — who are seeking to divorce themselves from the SEIU.
Rep. Don Young is a pro-forced unionism Republican who often sings off big labor’s song sheet. He is at it again. The Anchorage Daily News reports Young is denying that the Forced Unionism Card Check Bill will eliminate the secret ballot: One…
Last week Minnesota radio talk show host and occasional guest host for the Rush Limbaugh Show, Jason Lewis discussed forced unionism and worker freedoms with National Right to Work President Mark Mix. The Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has…
Union bosses representing Los Angeles police officers are demanding that editorial writers for the San Diego Union-Tribune be fired because of the newspapers stance on labor issues. The LA Times has the story: The union representing Los Angeles police officers…
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is threatening to move the Card Check Forced Unionism bill to the Senate floor as introduced unless a some other forced unionism scheme is worked out. Frankly, an up-or-down vote on the Harkin bill would be…
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…