Tidal Wave Coming?
Fred Barnes at the Weekly Standard reads the political tea leaves and sees a Democrat political tidal wave coming. If Barnes is right, payback to the union bosses will be swift: . . . This means the worst case…
Workers' Choice Pays Benefits
Auto workers in Alabama have the choice to join a union while workers in Michigan do not. If more politicians in Michigan would be willing to stand up to the labor union bosses, the auto industry would be in much…
Here is an Idea
First, Big Labor unions in Michigan drive up the cost of making an American automobile to the point where they are not competitive in the marketplace. Then, union bosses demand the taxpayers provide the auto companies with $50 billion…
Billion Dollar Gamble
“The dirty little secret of Big Labor’s massive support for the Obama campaign is the anticipated end to state right-to-work-laws and secret ballots in unionization campaigns,” writes Mallory Factor. But ending secret ballot rights for workers is just one…
Secret Ballots a Must to Protect Rights of Union Workers
Kingley Guy of the Sun-Sentinel newspaper hits the nail on the head when he writes: The right of workers to form a union is vital to American freedom, but the secret ballot is fundamental to it. Yet, Barack Obama and…
Union Bosses Reach for the Brass Ring
Columnist Doug Bandow provides an excellent overview of Big Labor’s agenda which includes, of course, the Card Check Scam bill: At the top of labor’s agenda is the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, which would deny employees the opportunity to…
Employee Free Choice Act "No Such Thing"
The Times Journal newspaper in Wisconsin hits the nail on the head calling the Employee Free Choice Act “no such thing”: It’s called the “Employee Free Choice Act,” but it is no such thing. What the act would effectively do…
Big Labor's Darker Side
Mark Wylie does an admirable job responding to Florida International University’s Bruce Nissen, an advocate of eliminating the secret ballot election for workers to pad the union rolls for union bosses: There is a great reason why the economy in…
Do Massachusetts Union Bosses Approve Boston Economic Development?
Jon Chesto of the Gatehouse News Service in Massachusetts provides a fascinating peek at the incestuous relationship between the Massachusetts political establishment and local union bosses. As we have seen with members of the House of Representatives and even…