An Associated Press headline reads: “Leader of UNITE HERE resigns as labor feud grows.” But, that is only part of the story. UNITE HERE is the bank holding company for Amalgamated Bank of New York. The Chairman of…
The Politico’s Ben Smith exposes more attempts by Big Labor Bosses to use clout gained from forced unionism; union pension “trustees” are attacking the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. While ignoring pension fund trustees’ fiduciary…
Union bosses representing Los Angeles police officers are demanding that editorial writers for the San Diego Union-Tribune be fired because of the newspapers stance on labor issues. The LA Times has the story: The union representing Los Angeles police officers…
Steve Malanga compares the effects the economy has had on the private and public sectors in the Wall Street Journal and the comparison is startling. While private companies are forced to cancel bonuses, freeze salaries and sometimes layoff workers,…
Paul Egan, in the Detroit News, reports on more Big Labor union boss corruption. Walter Ralph Mabry, the former Detroit-area head of the carpenters union convicted of corruption charges in 2006, is under federal investigation in connection with an alleged…
Teamsters’ Boss Jimmy Hoffa is asking for a federal bailout of union pensions. According to Hoffa: “The failure and weakening of major financial institutions in the last weeks and months has the potential to destroy the foundation of many pension…