Fighting Back
It’s not often business-owners are willing to take on the power of the union bosses, especially in New York City, but a small band of hotel owners are saying “enough.” Union organizers in New York have used the Card…
Big Labor Biggest Contributor to Deeds
According to the Washington Post, Democrat candidate for Virginia Governor Creigh Deeds’ biggest group of contributors is forced-dues funded Big Labor: The Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) has been working hard to slice and dice finance reports submitted…
Card Check Supporting Republican Taking Heat in NY Special Election
In the upcoming Special Election in , it’s safe to say two of the three candidates are solidly in the pocket of Big Labor. Just this past Monday night, when asked by a reporter if she supported “Card Check,” Republican…
Wamp -- running -- in wrong direction
Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) is supporting legislation that would seriously undermine and damage his state’s Right to Work law. In a letter to Mr. Wamp, Mark Mix requests that Mr. Wamp remove his name from the legislation: “If (the legislation) becomes…
Epstein on Card Check Forced Unionism
Constitutional scholar Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago has written a book on the Card Check Forced Unionism bill calling the most controversial piece of labor legislation in the last 60 years, the Employee Free Choice Act has “some…
Pomeroy Wants You to Clean up Big Labor’s Pension Mess
Representing a state with a popular Right to Work law that protects a workers’ right to choose whether to join or support a labor union sometimes makes it tough to pay back your pro forced unionism political backers but in…
Government Union Monopoly -- the New Tammany Hall
Fred Siegal and Dan DiSalvo’s intense look at government unions is in the new issue of the Weekly Standard and it is worth a read. The authors point out that the grand bargain between the taxpayers and public workers…
O is for Obfuscation
Lee Wishing’s blood started to boil when he heard President Obama’s speech before the AFL-CIO praising the Card Check Forced Unionism bill and rightfully so: The reason I was angry is that President Obama pulled off a rhetorical sleight of hand.
“Confident” of Card Check Passage
Forced unionism sycophant Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is predicting passage of the Card Check Forced Unionism bill through the Senate before the end of the year. Brown said he was talking to retiring Republican Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) as a…