As former House Rep. Jill Long Thompson takes on sitting Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, it appears that infighting amongst the Big Labor bosses in the state is hampering Long Thompson’s campaign for office. The Associated Press reports that a split…
You could be forgiven for thinking that Big Labor’s primary purpose is politics these days. With the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) well into its plan to spend some $150 million to elect the pet politicians of Big Labor bosses,…
Writing for the New York Sun, Diana Furchtgott-Roth has discovered that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) dramatically under funded the pension fund for its rank-and-file members. . . . [T]he SEIU National Industry Pension Plan, a plan for…
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation just issued the following news release. SEIU’s new rule forces local affiliates to raise PAC money or kick in workers’ forced union dues and pay penalties Washington, DC (July 17, 2008) –…
The announcement of a near half a million dollar ad campaign in Missouri by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for Democrat Jay Nixon’s campaign for Governor adds to the growing total of over $75 million of political spending this…
The Investor’s Business Daily weighs in on the $75 million SEIU spending binge. One thing is clear: The labor union bosses will spend every nickel they have taken from workers to strip them of their right to a secret ballot…
The free spending ways of the union bosses of the SEIU continue as they fill the coffers of an outfit called “Health Care for America Now.” The group is planning on spending $40 million to push for nationalized health care.
Los Angeles County’s Prudential Overall Supply, an industrial launderer, is in the midst of a dispute with Unite Here, a union formed about four years ago. When a big rig caught fire, authorities could not rule out arson by union…
Flush with cash coerced from workers, the AFL-CIO and the SEIU have announced they have “raised” and will spend over $100 million to elect Democrats to Congress and the White House this Fall.