Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s biggest single contribution is from … drum roll please … big labor. The American Federation of County and Municipal Employees gave McAuliffe an astounding $870,000. The union bosses would love to roll back Virginia’s Right to Work law…
Guess who is pouring massive amounts of campaign cash into the Virginia elections? That’s right the “emboldened union bosses are “investing” in order to secure “leverage” in the Right to Work state. The Washington Post reports: Organized labor is…
Its an unemployment rate of nearly 13% — the highest rate since 1983 — the state of Michigan desperately needs to reform its economy. Enactment of a Right to Work law would end the brain and job drain that is killing the…
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) says they are “making progress” in their negotiations over the Card Check Forced Unionism bill. We suspect workers who don’t want to be forced into a union are not at the bargaining table.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is threatening to move the Card Check Forced Unionism bill to the Senate floor as introduced unless a some other forced unionism scheme is worked out. Frankly, an up-or-down vote on the Harkin bill would be…
The Augusta Chronicle joins the growing opposition to the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill, S.560, pointing out that Georgia House of Representatives member John Barrow is refusing to protect workers rights.
Sen. Ben Nelson seems to get the Card Check quandary: You might think that statement would come from a Republican, but it’s actually from a Democrat. Reports that there might be a deal near on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), or…
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.
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…