Vulture Fund
What’s Big Labor up to now? Eliot Spitzer, in his first big business venture since he was shamed out of office by a prostitution scandal, is shopping around a plan to start a vulture fund that would scoop up distressed…
Top 10 Lies
The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) has just released a new Fact Sheet on the “Top 10 Big Labor Lies and Misleading Claims About the Colorado Right to Work Amendment.” Now that it appears likely Coloradans will vote…
In New York, Sucking Up to Union Bosses is a Bipartisan Affair
New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno (R) likes to fancy himself a representative of the taxpayers, but the New York Post knows a phony when they see one: New York’s largest public-sector union, the Civil Service Employees…
Future Congressman Abbate?
Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) is stepping down from Congress due to personal indiscretions and Big Labor is salivating at his possible replacement — New York Assemblyman Peter Abbate. Abbate is “Albany’s steady ally of public employee unions,” according to the…
Union Bosses Moving Away From Hillary Clinton
Despite victories in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton is reeling from the defection of union bosses to the camp of Sen. Barack Obama. As the Associated Press reports: More and more labor unions are lining up…
Proximity and Power
The American magazine asks an interesting question with an obvious answer: Why do the headquarters of state teachers’ unions tend to be so close to state capitol buildings? Authors Jay P. Green and Jonathan Butcher write: If you stand on…
Opposing Forced Unionism
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has filed its opposition to a package of sweeping rule changes proposed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) bureaucracy that would further undermine the right of American workers to…
Big Labor Goes . . . Well . . . Bigger
Carl Horowitz’s recent column covers Big Labor’s recent summit meeting with union officials from a host of other countries. Led by AFL-CIO top boss John Sweeney, American union bosses are joining hands with foreign union officials to “link…
Christmas Gift to Big Labor
This is a man bites dog story. Congress has trouble cutting even the smallest government program, but Big Labor’s allies can cut the watch-dog agency that is designed to investigate union corruption. Robert Bluey details Congress’ efforts to gut…