The Providence Journal profiles the power of Rhode Island’s union bosses and finds: Rhode Island’s labor unions are losing members faster than they can add them. But organized labor continues to have a powerful voice in state politics, due in…
Congress is poised to passed a “laundry list” of legislation written by Big Labor lobbyists that is “. . . nothing less than a radical rewrite of our nation’s unemployment laws,” says Randel Johnson, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s vice…
Using the forced-union dues scheme allowed by Oregon state law, Big Labor bosses, led by the public workers union, spent thousands of dollars pushing candidates in the state’s primary elections. Their political largess nominated big union puppets throughout the state.
Big Labor has, so far, promised to spend a remarkable $35 million of forced union dues against a Right to Work initiative in Colorado. Much of the money will pour in from out of state. The Denver Post reports…
Writer, author, and attorney, David Limbaugh, recently brought up an issue that needs looking into. As he pointed out in a recent Creators’ Syndicate article: . . . 20 years ago, the Justice Department filed a federal civil racketeering complaint…
After spending millions in Pennsylvania trying to defeat Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democrat primary, SEIU’s political spending spigot is once again targeting Sen. John McCain. A new ad campaign criticizes Sen. McCain for his position on health care. The…
The defeat of Sen. Barack Obama by Hillary Clinton keeps her hope of getting the Democrat nomination alive and she has Big Labor bosses to thank for it. An alphabet soup of labor unions — the American Federation of State,…
The political free spending ways of the union bosses continue unabated. An analysis by USA Today shows that since 2004 (and the enactment of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance laws) independent political group spending has doubled. With $8 out of…
The SEIU (Service Employees International Union) has now spent over $1 million in workers’ dues money in Pennsylvania for Sen. Barack Obama.