The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Jan-Feb 2010 Newsletter Now On-line: In this issue: Right to Work Sues Obama Administration, Demands Info on Big Labor Ties Big Labor Moves to Roll Back Sweeping Foundation Precedent Right…
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.
The Washington Examiner catches the Senate rushing pro-labor agenda items to the floor before Senator-Elect Scott Brown is sworn into the esteemed body: … the Senate is again trying to perform as many favors for Big Labor as it can before newly…
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 came in testimony from Stephen Worth, President & CEO of Worth and Company, a merit shop mechanical contractor out of Pipersville, Pennsylvania, currently employing more than 400 people. Amid testimony of union harassment and exclusion from contracting bids was a startling revelation of union methods to monopolize “green jobs” through illegitimate and discriminatory regulatory definition. “‘Green jobs’ is a phrase being used to describe work that is environmentally friendly, both inside and outside the construction industry,” Worth told the forum. “However, there is no agreed-upon definition. Currently, organized labor is attempting to define ‘green jobs’ as positions held by workers that receive special green training through union-only apprenticeship programs.”
Project Labor Agreements (PLA’s) are government-sponsored kickbacks to Big Labor bosses that drive up the cost of publicly-funded construction projects by as much as 25% to the taxpayers. PLA’s limit competitive bidding for project work to construction companies that have…
With California on the brink of bankruptcy, you would think that elected officials would be looking to save taxpayers money rather than paying more than they have to for the cost of construction. You would be wrong.
As government unions grow more powerful than private sector unions, in part because of their ability to force workers into unions through a “card check” process, the drain on taxpayers continues to grow. California is a shining example.
You can’t help but wonder if Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) reads his local newspapers. With a Senator so far out of touch with his local constituency, the obvious answer is: probably not. Despite vehement opposition from the Las Vegas Review…
Hold on your your wallets if you are a taxpayer in Atlanta. The union bosses are demanding their due. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Big Labor expects big favors from new mayor Kasim Reed. Local union boss Charlie Flemming…