Elizabeth “Penny” Pinchler didn’t like it when big union organizers from UNITE HERE knocked on her door. They wanted her help unionizing Cintas, the nation’s largest laundry company. “How the heck did someone know I worked at Cintas and get…
Spending over $40 million of forced-union dues to elect Democrats, the AFL-CIO announced Monday that 100,000 union “volunteers” will deploy in battleground states and congressional districts during the four days before the polls close to boost the turnout of likely…
Andrew Stern, the union boss of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been touring the country promoting a new book hyping the “shake-up” of union politics. But in Los Angeles, the former head of the local SEIU is being…
File this one under “hard to believe,” but the Big Labor barons at the AFL-CIO have turned to an international organization with problems of its own to hurt American workers — the United Nations. According to the Associated Press, the…
The largest teachers union in America, the National Education Association (NEA), has thrown itself headfirst into the congressional election with over $1 million in political expenditures against three Republicans: Jon Porter (NV), Heather Wilson (NM) and J.D. Hayworth (AZ). In…
The Wall Street Journal has reported on what Right to Work supporters have been talking about for months — Big Labor has dumped its Republican lackeys. In a short note on their blog, the Washington Wire, the Journal notes that…
The Pittsburgh Plumber Local 27 has said NO to amnesty. On October 10 union officials approved a resolution demanding that their union revenue not be used for promoting amnesty and other activities that promote illegal immigration. The resolution follows a…
The Labor Department informed the AFL-CIO that its financial controls and record-keeping were insufficient and that problems were “beyond technical bookkeeping errors.” Citing the lack of travel policy for AFL-CIO officers, lack of reporting of travel expenses for spouses, improper…
AFL-CIO Boss John Sweeney visited Toledo recently to march with 500 migrant workers rallying for amnesty of illegal aliens. The AFL-CIO Boss brought with him $60,000 in workers’ forced-dues money to give to the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC).