Radical Big Labor lawyer Craig Becker has been renominated to that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by President Obama. The National Right to Work Committee has opposed the Becker from the start and other groups are joining the chorus. The…
The New York Post is reporting that the New York Mets shelled out nearly $52 million for construction of their new baseball stadium to contractors with ties to the Mafia and labor corruption. Of course, the work was part of…
The construction industry is mired in a slump with more layoffs coming thanks to the demands of the union bosses. Brett McMahon notes in the Washington Examiner: The newest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the construction…
A new study conducted by George Mason University’s John M. Olin Institute exposes the existence of construction union slush funds that have expended more than $1 billion in union wages from 2000 to 2007 on a scheme known as “job…
Despite heavy lifting by the Iowa Governor and House Speaker Pay Murphy, who used extraordinary efforts to pass a state “prevailing wage law,” Iowa union bosses suffered a legislative setback when the bill failed to pass the House by a…
Massachusetts labor bosses are used to getting their way, especially from Gov. Deval Patrick. But labor activists are throwing up the red flag at Patrick’s proposed idea to use civilian flaggers on highway work projects instead of state troopers. Massachusetts…