Union Cash Flows
The SEIU (Service Employees International Union) has now spent over $1 million in workers’ dues money in Pennsylvania for Sen. Barack Obama.
Big Labor’s Forced-Unionism Trifecta
Kimberley Strassel recently wrote an article laying out Big Labor’s 2008 agenda for readers of the Wall Street Journal’s “Potomac Watch” section. “As Gerald McEntee, the savvy head of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees,…
Spending in Secret
Pennsylvania does not afford its workers Right to Work protection, thus giving union bosses the ability to coerce union dues from employees and spend them almost any way they want. That’s the way the union apparatchik likes it. Philadelphia Local…
Support Union Bosses at Your Own Peril
The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) today released results from a series of surveys in the battleground states of Minnesota, Colorado and Maine conducted by McLaughlin & Associates showing that the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill is hurting its…
Supreme Court Weighs in on Political Payroll Deductions
The United States Supreme Court has stepped into a dispute between the state of Idaho and labor unions over payroll deductions for political activities, reports the Associated Press. The state asked the justices to take the case, which involves an…
Victory
A federal judge has ordered California State Employees Association (CSEA) union officials to offer rebates to up to 28,000 state employees who are not union members. Imposing a “special assessment” in addition to mandatory dues, union officials seized an additional…
Obama's Special Interest Friends
Fact of the Day: The political arm of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and other . . . [special interest groups] . . . have spent more than $7.1 million directly supporting the Illinois Democrat’s bid for the presidential…
Iowa Forced-Dues Democrats Up to Old Tricks
Pro-forced unionism politicians are up to their old tricks in Iowa. Once again, the best interests of Iowa workers and the taxpayers who pay their salaries are taking a backseat to the demands of compulsion-minded Big Labor bosses who financed…
Union Bosses’ Billion Dollar Target -- John McCain
$200 million dollars. That is the latest amount pledged, out of general treasury funds, by AFL-CIO bosses to spend on the 2008 presidential and congressional elections. The focus of much of their ire will be Sen. John McCain. Political director…