Can We Get Specter Back?
Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (PA) was the only member of his party to support a motion to bring the Card Check Scam Bill to the Senate floor. Such a motion requires 60 votes. With Pro-Big Labor Democrats gaining even more…
Card Check Quandary
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…
Pop Quiz
The Wall Street Journal asks its readers to take a pop quiz: Who’s donated the most money to an effort in California to defeat Proposition 8, an initiative on the November 4 ballot that would define marriage as between…
Another $20 Million in Big Labor Political Spending
Add another $20 million in the already ballooning political budget of the union bosses. The “Change to Win labor federation” is “. . . spending more than $20 million — mostly under the radar — to help elect Democrats in…
Teacher Speaks Out
Larry Sand, a classroom teacher in Los Angeles for more than 27 years, is telling fellow Californians that the actions of the union bosses of the California teachers unions are being done without his support or consent. Unfortunately, he…
Chicago Union Garbage Men: Paid to Do Nothing
Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman has found that the city’s unionized sanitation department is riddled with fraud and abuse of taxpayer monies. The Sun Times reports: Laborers and truck drivers whose movements were eyeballed and tracked by undercover investigators were…
VETO
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used his power as governor to veto a proposed $6 million in state funding to a Big Labor institute that trains political operatives. Kevin Korenthal, the Executive Director of the Associated Builders and Contractors of California,…
If You Love Michigan’s Economy . . .
Readers know the difficulty Michigan is having creating jobs and economic prosperity. But defenders of Big Labor like to deny that the regulations and costs the United Auto Workers (UAW) and other big unions have imposed on the state have…
Big Labor's Grip
Like a diamond in the rough, the Waterbury Republican American newspaper in the heart of Big Labor Connecticut is willing to stand up for taxpayers against the political power of union bosses even when the politicians won’t. Their latest editorial…