MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson witnessed the “outsider” and “reform” candidate for President — Sen. Barack Obama — having dinner with some true insiders: “I was eating dinner at a Washington DC restaurant the other day and I was sitting outside and…
Soldier Field in Chicago has hosted NFC Championship games and heavyweight championship fights, but the AFL-CIO Democrat debate was less of an historic competition and more of a love-festival to the union bosses and activists that filled the stands as…
In an unprecedented move that highlights an incestuous relationship between the Democrat Party and Big Labor, the Democrats have offered their nationwide response to President Bush’s radio address to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
John Fund of the Wall Street Journal weighs in on Democrat leaders’ most recent attempt to “cut spending” and benefit the Big Labor bosses. Highlights include: The new Democratic Congress has finally found a government agency whose budget it…
An AP story reports: A Roman Catholic teacher whose religious beliefs conflict with the political positions of her labor union cannot be forced to pay dues, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost’s ruling broadens the category of…
With Congress spending like drunken sailors, we’re surprised to see House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) offer a small cut in spending — one that, of course, helps the Union Bosses. Robert Novak reports that Obey and company increased…
On June 14, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed a novel Washington State Supreme Court ruling that had discovered a “constitutional right” for union officials to spend dissenting employees’ mandatory dues on political causes they oppose. By ruling, in Davenport…
A private venture company purchase of Chrysler automobile has set off a storm of anger from the Big Labor Bosses and their benefactors in Congress, who are now threatening to regulate private equity funds in the hope it will lead…
Using over a hundred thousand dollars of coerced workers’ dues money, a number of union officials directed contributions to a controversial nonprofit linked to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. His “Civic Fund” received more than $100,000 in contributions including $50,000 that…