Despite a federal bailout of billions of dollars, the United Auto Workers (UAW) bosses have decided not to sell their million-dollar country club golf course despite it losing 23 million dollars over the last few years according to news reports.
The implementation of union disclosure rules by the Department of Labor has surely been lacking — but even a whiff of disclosure for workers will surely be eliminated when the Obama Administration takes over. The Wall Street Journal notes:…
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…
From the Wall Street Journal: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was preparing to issue an executive order prior to his arrest last week [December 9, 2008] that would have allowed union organizing of home-care workers that could have benefited a…
Doug Bandow writes, in The American Spectator, about a “new example of Chicago blackmail.”…
The website Pro Publica that offers “Journalism in the Public Interest” peeks behind the curtain and reveals a long co-dependent relationship between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
When Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich approached the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) bosses for a pay-to-play scandal to appoint a U.S. Senator, he wasn’t cold calling. They have a long “mutually beneficial” relationship, one that the Wall Street Journal…
In the latest podcast, Foundation VP Stefan Gleason sits down with Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey to discuss disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s connection to union corruption.
The governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, has been arrested, and it’s no surprise that union activists appear to be involved in the scandal. On page 69 of the criminal complaint against the Governor, government pleadings mention discussions with an “SEIU…