Shocking Headline of the Day "White House consults with AFL-CIO head on NLRB picks"
Politico reports that the White House is asking Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO president, to pick its nominees for the National Labor Relations Board.
Union Bosses Spend $1 Million for TV Ad Buy
Big Labor is spending $1 million in forced union dues money on TV ads pushing amnesty, according to CNN: As the U.S. Senate prepares for its first procedural votes on the “Gang of Eight” immigration plan, a top labor…
Trumka Pledges Card Check Bill Passage
Should President Obama be re-elected, his thank you note to the union bosses will come in the form of legislation, according to AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka: AFL-CIO President…
Big Labor Field Force Operates in Ohio, Colorado, and Virginia
[media-credit name=” ” align=”aligncenter” width=”218″][/media-credit]From RedState’s Aaron Gardner: A coalition of unions has coordinated with FieldWorks, a Washington-based consulting firm, to provide ground support for President…
Big Labor Scare Tactics
Union bosses have sent out mailers in Oregon claiming that their votes in the upcoming election will not be secret. “Your voting history is a matter of public…
Top Union Bosses Visited Obama White House 500+ Times…
An investigation into the visitor logs of the White House show that union bosses and lobbyists have visited the White House 500. No surprise there — the Obama Administration has done everything they can to prop up the union bosses and things promise…
New York Union Boss Arrested, Kickbacks Exceed $700K
United States attorney Loretta E. Lynch: Hector Lopez turned the union members’ benefits fund into “a personal piggy bank, lining his pockets with the fruits of their labors.” The former boss of an International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) union local in Long Island City, Queens, was arrested on Tuesday and accused of abusing his position through a host of illegal schemes, including taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from a company he contracted to run the union’s health benefits plan, the New York Times reports: Hector Lopez, the former president of Local 8a-28a, which represents metal polishers, sign painters and other tradespeople, set up an elaborate money-laundering operation involving several companies that funneled secret payments to him, according to a 29-page indictment that was unsealed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. In the most serious kickback scheme, Mr. Lopez, 54, is accused of accepting $740,000 over a seven-year period in exchange for guaranteeing one company the contract to administer the union’s benefits fund. The indictment did not name Mr. Lopez’s alleged accomplices or the names of the companies involved.
Voter Fraud: AFL-CIO Canvasser Booked On 23 Felony Counts
A union-funded front group Voters First Ohio canvasser was arrested August 14 by the Cincinnati Police Department. Timothy Noel Zureick was booked on 22 counts of signing false signatures and one count of election falsification, both fifth-degree felonies. [stream flv=x:/youtu.be/LlbKaPdacLE img=x:/nrtwc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/trumka.png embed=false share=false width=640 height=360 dock=true controlbar=over bandwidth=high…
Union Boss Trumka -- Obama has a "White Guy Problem"
But Forced Union Dues Can Fix That Richard Trumka has found his purpose. He wants to use his forced-union dues treasury to help solve President Obama’s “white guy problem.” Adding insult to…