What do underfunded union pensions and Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) have to with each other? A lot; the Obama Administration and Pelosi’s Congress chose to force construction workers to pay into union pensions to work. That’s right, if you plan…
In a recent issue of Human Events, National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix spoke out on the Obama administration’s economic “stimulus” package: Barnstorming the country to sell his economic “stimulus” package, for which U.S. taxpayers will ultimately…
President-elect Obama’s plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in public construction will certainly be funneled through union-only construction projects. Although only 15% of America’s private-public hardhat labor force currently belongs to a union, you can rest…
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used his power as governor to veto a proposed $6 million in state funding to a Big Labor institute that trains political operatives. Kevin Korenthal, the Executive Director of the Associated Builders and Contractors of…
Like a diamond in the rough, the Waterbury Republican American newspaper in the heart of Big Labor Connecticut is willing to stand up for taxpayers against the political power of union bosses even when the politicians won’t. Their latest editorial…
Politicians beholden to Big Labor will stop at nothing to prevent workers from exercising their free choice as to whether to join a union. You can add Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to that list. The mayor has decreed…
In San Diego, California, Big Labor construction unions are demanding that Gaylord Entertainment, a hotel operator, sign a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) that prohibits non-union construction companies from working on the building of a new 1,500 room hotel. Gaylord Entertainment…
The Constitution protects your right to associate and, by logic then, your right to disassociate. But Broome County, New York has decided to punish and discriminate against those exercising this basic right. The Birmingham, New York Press & Sun…