Giving Chrysler to UAW is Theft
David Keene looks at the effort by the Obama Administration to hand control of the Chrysler car company to the UAW and concludes its nothing more than theft and graft.
Big Labor is Big Business
The insightful Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner looks at the business side of big labor in his recent column. It’s clear that in many cases big labor is becoming synonymous with big business: Imagine if President George W. Bush used strong-arm tactics to…
The Holland Sentinel : Oppose Card Check Scam
The Holland Sentinel in Michigan knows that the Card Check Scam is bad for workers and the economy: . . . The most important element of the Employee Free Choice Act is its promotion of the “card check” system of…
Michigan: No Longer Can Afford to Stop Right to Work
David Gillis of the Times Herald newspaper in Port Huron, Michigan has looked at the numbers and concludes Michigan can no longer afford to restrict workers’ Right to Work. Why? According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in the 22…
The Grand Rapids Press: Fight Card Check Scam
The Grand Rapids Press is calling for the defeat of the Card Check Scam Bill: Under the Employee Free Choice Act, a majority of employees simply need to sign a card expressing a willingness to join the union. Workers…
Right to Work States Have Lower Unemployment Rates
The latest state unemployment figures, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, show that state Right to Work laws have a significant effect on unemployment rates. In December 2008, states with Right to Work laws had an average unemployment rate…
Detroit's Downturn
With some Democrats and liberal pundits proclaiming that forced unionism at automobile plants in Right to Work states is the solution to what ails the American car industry, it’s critical to understand just how the United Auto Workers’ monopoly union…
UAW: Bottomless Money Pit
Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin takes an in-depth look at the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) free-spending ways. We have seen union bosses spend workers’ dues money in frivolous ways before, but the UAW brass could take the cake for outrageous…
More Union Boss Corruption
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…