Writing for the New York Sun, Diana Furchtgott-Roth has discovered that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) dramatically under funded the pension fund for its rank-and-file members. . . . [T]he SEIU National Industry Pension Plan, a plan for…
FactCheck.org, the non-partisan “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics has declared recent AFL-CIO attack ads against Sen. John McCain as “false.” The ad campaign, financed with mandatory union dues…
The Providence Journal profiles the power of Rhode Island’s union bosses and finds: Rhode Island’s labor unions are losing members faster than they can add them. But organized labor continues to have a powerful voice in state politics, due in…
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) usually knows bad legislation when they see it, and the police and firefighter monopoly unionization bill is no exception: Unions keep losing membership as a share of the national workforce, which explains why organized…
“Half of Colorado’s United Food and Commercial Workers would stop paying union dues if they could,” according to the union’s boss, the Denver Post reports. In a May 1 letter to members, Ernest Duran warns that the right-to-work initiative…
In its infinite wisdom, Congress has decided to fund a $125 million pilot program to create “green jobs,” a training program to teach installation of solar panels, etc. But there is a catch — the money is only given to…
Jennifer Rubin at Contentions Blog is correct in chastising Democrats’ support for the Card Check Scam Bill. She points out that support for the bill “. . . is one more instance in which Democrats have confused the interests…
Washington state politicians are trying to help Big Labor and not day care workers, the Tacoma News Tribune notes. Democrats in the Legislature say they want to help day care workers. But the way they’re going about it has a…
“Big labor and the liberal politicians who benefit from its largess are hopping mad about Department of Labor rules that would — gasp! — require that labor leaders be more accountable to those they represent,” the Iowa Messenger opines.