When the Washington Post calls union officials influence toxic, you know it must be bad: In Montgomery County, the teachers union and its toxic influence MOST CANDIDATES for local office in Montgomery County covet the endorsement of the county teachers…
Straight from the horse’s mouth on why the Becker nomination is so critical. Stewart Auff of the AFL-CIO declares that, “It (sic) we aren’t able to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, we will work with President Obama…
Parts of the Obama stimulus plan are being delayed by union rules and programs. Mickey Kaus reports that the home “weatherization” jobs in the stimulus bill were subjected to Davis-Bacon wage regulations — a favorite of the AFL-CIO…
Perhaps unaware that many rank and file Teamsters have been part of the Tea Party movement, Teamster Boss Jim Hoffa erroneously charged, “The tea-baggers show up and are against Social Security and Medicare; they even want to shut down the…
Mark Mix, the President of the National Right to Work takes on the UAW’s boss Ron Gettelfinger’s recent misinformed op/ed attacking the Right to Work: It’s telling that in union boss Ron Gettelfinger’s screed against Right to Work laws (“King exposed…
The following U.S. Senators co-sponsored a cloture vote to end debate on Big Labor Lawyer: Harry Reid, Roland W. Burris, Tom Harkin, Debbie Stabenow, Dianne Feinstein, Benjamin L. Cardin, Bill Nelson, Al Franken, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, Mark Begich, Byron…
Racing against the clock, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pushed through another Obama Big Labor nominee, Patricia Smith, before Senator-Elect Scott Brown becomes a Senator. Reid won this race, see the Senate votes here. In addition, Reid is prepared to add radical SEIU & AFL-CIO lawyer, Craig Becker to the list of Obama nominees approved before Senator Brown arrives. As the new U.S. Solicitor of Labor, President Obama’s nominee M. Patricia Smith will control the largest civilian pool of government lawyers after the Justice Department. Then New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer appointed Smith Commissioner of the New York State Department of Labor (NYDOL). Having spent her entire working life as a government employee, Smith brings only bureaucratic experience to the table. As NYDOL Commissioner, Smith used her position and federal funds to override a state hiring freeze to hire a politically connected union organizer as a state employee.
Unions have gotten on the “green jobs” porkwagon. The federal government is handing out grants for jobs in the environmental field and unions are monopolizing that space. From Human Events: One of the more startling revelations at the forum…
The Committee was forwarded an e-mail that, in part, read: We have just learned from our contacts in Washington that the HELP committee [U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions] has postponed other scheduled business and will conduct…