Jim McElhatton of the Washington Times reports that one of the biggest beneficiaries of Labor Department financial disclosure rules is the AFL-CIO. And wouldn’t you have guessed it? The AFL-CIO has its own Associate General Counsel running the Secretary…
Paul Carpenter of the Pennsylvania Morning Call was called out for using the term union goon in describing the murder of a union worker on orders from United Mine Worker bosses. But Mr. Carpenter isn’t backing down, nor should he. Mr,. Carpenter reminds…
Thanks to the efforts of the National Right to Work Foundation, Utah teacher unions no longer have the right to use government resources to collect money for partisan political activities. From the Deseret News: The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on…
If you are wondering why your tax bill continues to climb and the government continues to grow, look no further than the Service Employees International Union, says astute columnist Michael Barone: About one-third of the $787 billion stimulus package passed…
Despite bipartisan abandonment of taxpayers and workers by members of Congress from both parties who are trying to curry favor with police and fireman unions, the Winston-Salem Journal understands what the real issues are: The U.S. Congress shouldn’t be meddling…
The union power grab of local school boards is hitting a snag. Editorial boards, educators and now, perhaps, even the Democrat governor is saying the unions and their cronies in the legislature are going too far, too fast. The Quad-City…
David Elbert of the Des Moines Register says all the pro-Big Labor lifting Iowa Democrats have done for the union bosses is a gift to the Republican Party. First they tried to repeal the Hawkeye State Right to Work Law,…
Iowa’s most influential political observer, David Yepsen, has some advice for Iowa’s Democrat Gov. Chet Culver — veto the union power grab and get yourself reelected. By standing up to some of the labor unions, Gov. Chet Culver may have…
In early January, Governor Jim Gibbons signed an executive order repealing former Governor Bob Miller’s 1994 executive order mandating project labor agreements on Nevada public works construction projects. Reported in the Las Vegas Review Journal. According to representatives of Nevada’s…