Teamsters’ Boss Jimmy Hoffa is asking for a federal bailout of union pensions. According to Hoffa: “The failure and weakening of major financial institutions in the last weeks and months has the potential to destroy the foundation of many pension…
“The dirty little secret of Big Labor’s massive support for the Obama campaign is the anticipated end to state right-to-work-laws and secret ballots in unionization campaigns,” writes Mallory Factor. But ending secret ballot rights for workers is just one…
A long-time Washington state union boss has written a book with a startling admission. “Smiling Joe” Miller admits he “broke the law all the time” by passing envelops of cash to lawmakers, converted campaign checks into hard-to trace cash, illegally…
Jon Chesto of the Gatehouse News Service in Massachusetts provides a fascinating peek at the incestuous relationship between the Massachusetts political establishment and local union bosses. As we have seen with members of the House of Representatives and even…
Ivan Osorio asks the question most in the Mainstream Media will not — “What does Big Labor Want?” The answer is more power, more forced union members and, of course, more coerced union dues money. So how will they achieve…
Following Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s GOP nomination for Vice President of the United States, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation released an open letter from Foundation President Mark Mix to her husband, Todd Palin. Quote Mr. Mix: We…
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is “building bridges” to the Republican Party by donating $50,000 to the host committee of the Republican Convention. This is a bridge to nowhere. The SEIU bosses are spending $85 million trying to defeat…
Financial Week takes an insightful look at Big Labor’s big hope and big bet — the effort to end the secret ballot election — despite underestimating the amount they will spend to buy enactment of their scheme: The labor movement’s…
The U.S. District Court has pinned back the ears of the Utah political class, particularly Lieutenant Governor Herbert — slapping down key provisions of their unconstitutional campaign finance regulations. The law was exploited by political opponents to muzzle — even…