Tied at the Hip
For four years, the Obama Administration has carried big labor’s water and now we are seeing how the union bosses are giving thanks. The Daily Beast…
SEIU Caught Red Handed
Project Veritas has released a new video exposing evidence of a quid pro quo relationship between liberal Senator Robert Menendez and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). “The purpose of this investigation is to demonstrate the clear conflict of interest that exists when an…
Big Labor's Buddies
Big government’s labor union, AFSCME, is using its forced union dues resources to full effect spending nearly $3 million to help their favorite candidates for Senate — Sen. Jon Tester, Rep. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV). AFSCME is…
Big Labor's Buddies
Big government’s labor union, AFSCME, is using its forced union dues resources to full effect spending nearly $3 million to help their favorite candidates for Senate — Sen. Jon Tester, Rep. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV). AFSCME is…
Billions and Counting
The Wall Street Journal reports that big labor “spends about four times as much on politics and lobbying as generally thought.” Generally thought? …
Union Bosses Demand "More"
Writing in the Las Vegas Review Journal, Glenn Cook outlines how union endorsements of political candidates mean the candidate has abandoned the taxpayers in exchange for the campaign contributions and Big Labor union…
Union Bosses Demand "More"
Writing in the Las Vegas Review Journal, Glenn Cook outlines how union endorsements of political candidates mean the candidate has abandoned the taxpayers in exchange for the campaign contributions and Big Labor union…
Opening the Forced-Dues Spigots
The embattled government workers’ union, AFSCME, elected its Secretary-Treasurer, Lee Saunders, as its next union boss after a bitter election that focused in part on whether the union should play aggressively in…
NRTW Lawyers Win Big at Supreme Court; SEIU & Big Labor Lose Another Forced Politics Scheme
National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys lead by W. James Young fought to stop SEIU abuses of Dianne Knox and her fellow employees right not to be compelled to "subsidize a [SEIU] political effort designed to restrict their own rights." The U.S. Supreme Court 7-2 Opinion written by Justice Alito sets back another Big Labor easy political money scheme right before the 2012 elections. This decision should lead to new challenges to Big Labor's compulsory actions in the future. Two of the Justices, Breyer and Kagan, who opposed the right of individuals to voluntarily spend their own money on politics in the Citizen United case, both supported the notation that unions could compel people to unwillingly support politics that they oppose. From the Opinion: .... When a State establishes an “agency shop” that ex- acts compulsory union fees as a condition of public employment, “[t]he dissenting employee is forced to support financially an organization with whose principles and demands he may disagree.” Ellis, 466 U. S., at 455. Because a public-sector union takes many positions during collective bargaining that have powerful political and civic consequences, see Tr. of Oral Arg. 48–49, the compulsory fees constitute a form of compelled speech and association that imposes a “significant impingement on First Amendment rights.”