Newly elected Wisconsin Congressman Steve Kagen was a beneficiary of Big Labor’s free spending of workers dues money for endorsing government-run health care and other Big Labor agenda items. Now Big Labor has come knocking for support on more issues.
Presidential aspirant John Edwards was on MSNBC’s Hardball program, pitching his support for the “Card-Check” bill, but host Christ Mathews’ questions did more to undermine the bill than Edwards’ answers did to support it. Surprisingly, Mathews, a Democrat who used…
With organized labor looking forward to 2008, Iowa was a major target this year. Their work may pay BIG dividends! They have got the state’s Right to Work law in their gun sights. Incoming Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal…
The People’s Daily World, a publication of the Communist Party of America, reports that AFL-CIO Legislative Director Bill Samuel is happy “to be playing offense for the first time” in his career. That offensive agenda will certainly include efforts to…
The headlines say it all: Labor Movement Dusts Off Agenda as Power Shifts in Congress …New York Times Unions Hope Bill Energizes Organizing …Houston Chronicle Unions Push Pays Off in Wins by Democrats …Wall Street Journal With…
Big Labor’s backstabbing of its Republican supporters was an unwritten story of the 2006 congressional elections. Now Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-NY) has stabbed back. Despite being one of 15 GOP cosponsors of the AFL-CIO’s anti-democracy “card-check” bill, which union officials…
After spending hundreds of millions of workers’ dues money to ensure a Democrat controlled Congress, the AFL-CIO has produced a top five “must do” list of legislative items for Congress to pass. The list includes the “card-check forced unionism” bill…
Elizabeth “Penny” Pinchler didn’t like it when big union organizers from UNITE HERE knocked on her door. They wanted her help unionizing Cintas, the nation’s largest laundry company. “How the heck did someone know I worked at Cintas and get…
Protecting the integrity and validity of the ballot box is the equivalent of imposing a “poll tax” according to Big Labor officials in Washington. The chiefs of the AFL-CIO are leading the fight against legislation that would require proof of…