Flush with cash taken from workers without their consent, the SEIU is bombarding California’s airwaves with a $1 million television ad campaign supporting new taxes on oil and gas, tobacco and liquor. At the pace at which the SEIU is…
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…
The Business Journal reports that “In two separate incidents this week, workers for the Service Employees International Union have been accused of acts of vandalism toward opposing union supporters.” Take note, these pressure tactics are associated with a mail-in ballot — the…
The phrase of the week has been “life experience” regarding President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination. So today’s National Right to Work Committee alert looks at the real “life experience” of Federal Election Board nominee John Sullivan. (See the video alert…
The left-wing website Indy Media notes that the SEIU has undertaken “violent shock and awe tactics.” The accusations of violence come from another union — the National Union of Healthcare Workers — who are seeking to divorce themselves from the SEIU.
Every time we read a story about the unprecedented amount of spending big labor does in political campaigns we wonder where are all those so-called “campaign reformers” who promised to get big money out of politics. Kris Maher of…
Becker is bad news for individual worker rights and freedom, “no matter how you shake and bake it.” (To paraphrase ACORN’s Wade Rathke, see the Becker Alert for more.) [Added 8/6/2009 Becker Alert with his SF-278 Personal Financial…
The Obama Administration demanded California return stimulus funds if it goes forward with a new contract with the SEIU union, but evidence suggests the SEIU used its influence in Washington to sabotage the agreement.
Despite taking millions of dollars from workers, it appears the SEIU are refusing to pay for the security service that was protecting the union bosses from local SEIU workers.