Big Labor's Big Debt Problem
It won’t be long that the union bosses will be asking for their own federal bailout if the Wall Street Journal is correct: We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama,” declared Andy Stern last month, and the president of…
SEIU Spends and Spends
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…
Underfunded Union Pensions
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…
SEIU Intimidation Tactics
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…
FEC Nominee Involved in Teamsters, DNC Election Scandal
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…
Workers Fear SEIU "Shock and Awe" Campaign
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.
SEIU Gets What it Forced Dues Dollars Paid and Borrowed For
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…
Obama Personnel Alert: Craig Becker (NLRB)
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…
SEIU Sabotaged California Budget Deal
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.