As President-elect Barack Obama considers appointments to major cabinet positions, word from Washington suggests that former Democrat leaders Dick Gephardt and David Bonior are being considered to head the Department of Labor. Gephardt, of course, has long-standing ties to the…
Mark Mix, the President of the National Right to Work Committee, makes the case against a federal bailout of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union: For decades, United Auto Workers (UAW) officials have wielded their monopoly power under federal labor…
The Washington Times lends a voice of opposition to the proposed billion-dollar bailout of the Big Three carmakers and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union.
Despite not yet achieving a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate (Minnesota, Georgia and Alaska election results are still awaiting finality), Big Union activists are pushing hard to get their Card Check Scam Bill enacted into law. The Investor’s Business Daily…
John Lott takes an insightful look at the Card Check Scam: WOULD you like elections without secret ballots? To most Americans, the notion is absurd. But, if Barack Obama becomes president, secret ballots seem destined to end for at…
Will Obama cash Big Labor’s chit?…
Big Labor bosses are ready to ram through their power-grabbing agenda with the help of a new crop of congressional water carriers — and they are not hiding their demands. Just read the headlines: “After Push for Obama, Unions…
From the Washington Post: The Virginia Democratic Party failed to properly disclose a $200,000 donation it received in early September from a labor union, party officials admitted . . . . On Sept. 4, the Laborers’ Political League Education…
Despite his support for Right to Work, John McCain missed a serious opportunity to discuss Barack Obama’s support for elimination of the secret ballot election for workers, according to Shikha Dalmia, writing for Forbes magazine: Perhaps Republicans deserve to…