CNBC looks at some of the ways the union bosses are spending forced union dues money this Fall: The AFL-CIO says it will spend at least $53 million on 400 races in 26 states. The Service Employees International Union, which…
While union bosses are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in forced union dues money to prop up their candidates, union members don’t seem to have the same interest in politics. The New York Times reports that union bosses…
While union bosses are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in forced union dues money to prop up their candidates, union members don’t seem to have the same interest in politics. The New York Times reports that union bosses…
During the health care debate, the union bosses of the AFl-CIO made bold threats to House Democrats -- vote against ObamaCare and we will sit on our hands during your re-election battle. As Miss Emily Letella on Saturday Night Live used to say, "Nevermind." With many of their congressional water carriers struggling for their political lives, the AFL-CIO backed of their threat putting power before principle. The Hill reports: The AFL-CIO released its first round of mailers in support of endangered Democrats this week. In it, the union sought to bolster Rep. Zack Space’s (D-Ohio) campaign with literature attacking his Republican opponent. Space was the lone Democrat from Ohio’s congressional delegation to vote against the healthcare bill, and his position enraged labor groups. But he’s not the only lawmaker who voted against the legislation to see union support trickle back his way.
The political pit-bulls of the AFL-CIO have unleashed two million pieces of mail attacking Pro-Right to Work Senate candidates Rand Paul and Sharron Angle — all funded with general treasury money which includes forced union dues from millions of workers.
(Source: July 2010 Forced-Unionism Abuses Exposed) Roughly three months after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded, killing 11 workers and instigating the biggest offshore oil spill ever to occur during peacetime, the Obama Administration faces mounting charges that, in order to avoid offending politically powerful union officials, it has obstructed operations to clean up the spill. A wide range of critics are focusing on the White House’s refusal, in the days after oil began spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from the sunken rig, to suspend the 90-year-old Jones Act. The Jones Act requires all shipping between U.S. ports or in U.S. coastal waters to be carried in U.S.-flagged ships that are owned and crewed by U.S. citizens. But presidential administrations can grant blanket waivers of the Jones Act during national emergencies. In recent years, the George W. Bush Administration temporarily suspended the Jones Act to assist recovery efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. However, top bosses of the AFL-CIO-affiliated Seafarers International Union (SIU), with the backing of the entire AFL-CIO hierarchy, oppose a blanket waiver. Rather than cross Big Labor, and thus potentially risk losing some of its massive, forced dues-funded political support, the Obama Administration has required all foreign vessels that wish to participate in the cleanup and believe they may need a waiver to apply for one individually.
Big Labor’s AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has visited the White House over 30 times, appears in Administration web pages, and works with the the President of the Party of European Socialist Poul Nyrup Rassmusen to add new taxes on all…
Big Labor’s AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has visited the White House over 30 times, appears in Administration web pages, and works with the the President of the Party of European Socialist Poul Nyrup Rassmusen to add new taxes on all…
The union for government workers is spending over $1.5 million attacking Republican congressional candidates in Michigan and Nevada. The Michigan ad claims that GOP candidate and former House Member Tim Walberg “skipped out” on a vote to bailout the auto industry.