Big Labor's (Volkswagon) Fairy Tale
As union bosses try to tell tall tales to auto workers in Tennessee, Mike Patterson sets them straight with his own version: Once upon a time, in Chattanooga a young girl made her way to…
More Evidence Maine Should Adopt Right To Work; It Works
Amy Volk, a state representatives from Maine, makes an eloquent case why the state should adopt a Right to Work law: For years, an unhealthy alliance between Democratic politicians and labor…
Unions & Cuomo Protect State Workers Found Guilty of Abusing Disabled Patients
Kate Andrews details how New York state labor laws make it impossible to prosecute abusive state workers: The New York Times released a follow-up report, revealing that only 25% of NY state home-workers found guilty of abusing disabled and mentally ill patients…
AFL-CIO Targets Union Dues Money for More Campaign Spending
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…
AFL-CIO Targets MI Gov. Rick Snyder
The AFL-CIO is putting a target on Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and five other Republican governors in the 2014 election, WHTC reports: The union’s Political Director Michael Podhorzer told the audience at a breakfast in Washington, D.C. Tuesday the organization will go after…
Pro-Obamacare Union Czar: Law Will Have 'Tremendous Impact as Workers Have Their Hours Reduced and Their Incomes Reduced'
Like many other top officials of national, state and local unions, Joe Hansen of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW/AFL-CIO) union lavishly spent rank-and-file employees’ forced union dues and fees to lobby for passage of the so-called Affordable Care…
SEIU Goon: If We Don’t Raise Minimum Wage Fast Food Workers Will Contaminate Your Food…
SEIU activists pushing a massive increase in the minimum wage threatened to contaminate your food is you don’t agree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTOX09YNllg&feature=player_embedded…
It's Not Just Detroit; it's Philly, Chicago, New York...
The Washington Examiner finds there are 19 cities with larger government worker to population ratios than Detroit where city workers accounted for the largest employer: Detroit declared bankruptcy due in no small part to $3 billion in unfunded public employee…
Union Monopoly Power Will Bankrupt Illinois
Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of its second study of the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund (CTPF), which reveals many pensioners are on track to collect more than $5 million…