McClatchy Newspapers report that “President Bush’s hopes of securing a comprehensive immigration overhaul have brightened considerably in the new Democratic-controlled Congress, but resistance from organized labor – one of the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituencies – could complicate those efforts.”…
We are not sure what is more outrageous — the fact that the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) will spend in excess of $2 million in workers’ dues in the first few hours of the Democrat-controlled…
John Edwards’ presidential campaign seems to be playing third fiddle behind Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, so he has brought on a Big Labor supporting “pit bull,” David Bonior, as his senior advisor; and is likely to make him his…
“Millions of people living in countries that belong to the United Nations work in abysmal, unsafe and inhumane conditions that most Americans can’t imagine and wouldn’t tolerate. Yet rather than focusing on these problems, the U.N.’s International Labor Office last…
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…