Its not enough to have a National Labor Relations Board using the force of government to move your agenda, now Boss Trumka wants a radical rewrite of America’s labor laws outlawing, among other things, your Right to Work.
AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka’s effort to throw Big Labor completely into the progressive camp has hit a road bump with some AFL-CIO members questioning the wisdom of the effort.
Citing differences with the national AFL-CIO, including their support for ObamaCare and immigration reform, 40,000 Longshoreman have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO. Warner Todd Huston reports, “In an August 29 letter to…
Even multiple taxpayer-funded grants could not keep this forced-dues collective Utopia alive: Union organizers are hungry to add cooks, waiters and busboys to a shrinking roster of union members. The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100 came…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…