The House of Representatives passed a bill to prevent the National Labor Relations Board from conducting much of its business until a dispute over the president’s recess appointments is resolved. The measure, approved on a 219-209 vote that broke largely…
Just over two months ago, a post on this blog called on New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie to fight to stop Big Labor from cynically profiteering off Hurricane Sandy. Last fall, Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, caused…
Early in the morning on September 8, 2011, overpowered police were unable to prevent bat- and ax handle-wielding International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU/AFL-CIO) toughs from systematically sabotaging a new $200 million grain terminal located at the Port of Longview in…
It is an unfortunate fact that the labor-policy reporting supplied by mainstream media outlets such as the Associated Press frequently echoes Big Labor propaganda. Sometimes this results in “mere” gross distortions, and sometimes, like in an AP story filed yesterday…
After failing for the past three decades to secure monopoly-bargaining privileges at any foreign-owned auto-assembly plant in the U.S., United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union bosses are now claiming they are on the verge of success at the Volkswagen plant in…
The Hill reports Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) introduced legislation that would prevent actions taken by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) since last year from having any effect until the courts sort out whether President Obama’s appointments to that board…
The American Thinker examines how big teachers union have become impediments for needed education reform: American public education may be in crisis, but teachers are fairly happy with their lives, according to a new Gallup poll: The…
It’s been roughly three months since a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that three putative “recess” appointments union-label President Barack Obama had made to the powerful, five-member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in…
In an analysis this week for the Daily Beast (see the link below), economic demographer Joel Kotkin deploys plenty of facts and figures to rebut the notion, still espoused by many journalists, planners and pundits, that “old-style, high-density” cities like…