As public opposition to the so-called Affordable Care Act of 2010, also known as ObamaCare, continues to mount, union officials are loudly decrying the signature legislative achievement of the President they played a critical role in electing in 2008 and…
In the 1990s, Volkswagen (VW) ran an advertising campaign with Fahrvergnügen, a mysterious German word that seemed to have no equivalent in the English language. Maybe, Detlef Wetzel, Germany’s IG Metall Union Chairman…
What do forced-unionism and forced-dues funded political war chests create? Super citizens known as union bosses that get special favors that no other citizen will ever receive, but you are forced to pay for these government gifts to union bosses.
From MediaTrackers.org: Members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB) pay an average of $76.05 towards the salaries and expense reimbursements the union pays its top officers, plus $83.20 to cover the cost of conferences including officer trips to Switzerland…
Labor union officials using forced-dues to fund “push polls” against political targets is not unusual, but against an eighth-grade student’s dad illustrates how far this NEA official is willing to go to intimidate and bully. More often than not, union…
Talking about perversion of individual employees’ rights by state compelled unionism. Hundreds of farm workers in Fresno County, California, have walked away from their jobs at Gerawan Farming as a protest against the United Farm Workers Union. …
The CEO of the oldest brewery in America (and maker of Obama’s “favorite beer”)believes his state — Pennsylvania — should free itself from the shackles of forced unionism. Dick Yuengling said he would like to see lawmakers in Harrisburg approve…
A front-page Wall Street Journal article published at the beginning of this week (see link below) and other news reports are calling public attention to the fact that, after many years of decline, manufacturing employment in the U.S. has modestly…
Politico reports that the union bosses at the AFL-CIO will be spending vast amounts of union dues money to on gubernatorial elections in the coming election cycle: AFL-CIO bosses plan to throw their “political weight most heavily into a half-dozen…