Union bosses like Lonnie Stephenson clearly swayed US Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to protect their apprenticeship fiefdom. Credit: www.ibew.org New Labor Department Head Can Green-Light Union-Free Training Shortly before resigning as U.S. labor secretary this summer amid rising fury over…
Judge: Rule Appears to Conflict With U.S. Code’s ‘Plain Language’ (download the September 2016 NRTWC Newsletter) This summer, federal judges in courts located more than 1,100 miles from one another sharply chastised Obama-appointed U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez for attempting,…
From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: Worker Advocate Urges Labor Secretary: Apply Federal Disclosure Law to German Union…
As the National Right to Work Committee warned in emails to its members and in this video that Solicitor of Labor M. Patricia Smith would approve deputizing union organizers with Obama…
A communist news and propaganda site, World Socialist Web Site, exposed another Big Labor payback by Barack Obama and his new Labor Secretary Thomas…
From BuzzFeed: Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis resigned Wednesday afternoon, three sources told BuzzFeed. Solis was one of the least-visible members of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, rarely appearing on national television or with…
From BuzzFeed: Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis resigned Wednesday afternoon, three sources told BuzzFeed. Solis was one of the least-visible members of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, rarely appearing on national television or with…
An obvious residual effect of President Obama’s re-election was the renewal of his government giveaways to the union bosses.
United States attorney Loretta E. Lynch: Hector Lopez turned the union members’ benefits fund into “a personal piggy bank, lining his pockets with the fruits of their labors.” The former boss of an International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) union local in Long Island City, Queens, was arrested on Tuesday and accused of abusing his position through a host of illegal schemes, including taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from a company he contracted to run the union’s health benefits plan, the New York Times reports: Hector Lopez, the former president of Local 8a-28a, which represents metal polishers, sign painters and other tradespeople, set up an elaborate money-laundering operation involving several companies that funneled secret payments to him, according to a 29-page indictment that was unsealed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. In the most serious kickback scheme, Mr. Lopez, 54, is accused of accepting $740,000 over a seven-year period in exchange for guaranteeing one company the contract to administer the union’s benefits fund. The indictment did not name Mr. Lopez’s alleged accomplices or the names of the companies involved.