The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union is using forced-workers dues money for a “new video and a five-figure buy of blog ads to accompany its rock themed RV tour” to push for government-run health…
Union workers dues money is already mostly diverted to politics — ad campaigns, lobbyists, consultants — but the apparent next union boss of the AFL-CIO says that unions aren’t doing enough politicking. Richard Trumka, described by Politico.com as “unapologetically old-school…
The Wisconsin legislature has passed legislation that has been signed by pro-big union governor Jim Doyle that would grab 3,200 research assistants in the state university system and unionize them through a card check scheme.
George Will counts the ways the Obama Administration loves big labor: How does the Obama administration love organized labor? Let us count the ways it uses power to repay unions for helping to put it in power. It…
President Obama has been making the rounds pushing for a government health care system by giving speeches and conducting town hall style meetings. But these meetings are more choreographed than most realize. Michele Malkin points out that: Obama’s town…
The Examiner has reported that big labor’s pension plans are underfunded understands that the Forced Unionism Card Check Bill is an effort to force subsidization of these failing plans: Private firms could be required to save underfunded union pension plans even…
After bashing everyone else for decades regarding pension funding, the Washington Examiner has discovered: Almost half of the nation’s 20 largest unions have pension funds that federal law classifies as “endangered” or in “critical” condition due to being underfunded, an Examiner review of…
What do underfunded union pensions and Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) have to with each other? A lot; the Obama Administration and Pelosi’s Congress chose to force construction workers to pay into union pensions to work. That’s right, if you plan…
With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, seven Chicago employees who refused to abandon their jobs during a strike forced a settlement with a local union after union officials levied exorbitant and illegal retaliatory…