Union Bosses Pushed to End Filibuster
No one should be surprised to hear that the real push behind the effort to end the filibuster in the US Senate was the union bosses. From Katrina Trinko at the…
No one should be surprised to hear that the real push behind the effort to end the filibuster in the US Senate was the union bosses. From Katrina Trinko at the…
The Chicago Tribune reported late last week (see the link below) on efforts by the funeral home operator Service Corporation International (SCI) to secure a preliminary injunction against Teamster union bosses and their fanatical followers in the Windy City region.
Surprise, Surprise, President Obama's new NLRB nominees spent their working years at big labor trying to enact the Card Check Forced Unionism Scheme: One of President Barack Obama’s new National Labor Relations Board nominees dedicated her career at the AFL-CIO to doing away with secret ballots in labor elections—a tactic critics say would make it easier to unionize and expose employees to intimidation. Nancy Schiffer spent nearly three decades as a union attorney in a career that took her from Detroit’s United Auto Workers to associate general counsel at the AFL-CIO, a Democratic power broker that spent $30 million on the 2012 election. Schiffer took the lead in many unionization efforts across the country and has spent the past few years trying to do away with the secret ballot in union elections. “[Card check] is needed to address a severe violation of human rights,” she testified to the House Education and Workforce Committee in 2004.
Yesterday, Detroit, once a magnet for ambitious job seekers across the country, became the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy. As Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes discusses in the commentary linked below, a key factor in the Motor…
The only thing that ObamaCare offers teacher unions is the possible chance to unionize the likely resulting expansion of school medical personnel. But, it destroys benefits that teachers currently enjoy; you know the teachers that the National Education Association (NEA)…
The Fix Was In: Ousted NLRB Member Offered NLRB General Counsel Job A Day After Senate Deal http://t.co/IBkN4VDHxs via @laborunionrpt — Nat'l Right to Work (@Right2Work) July 18, 2013…
With every passing day, it seems, union bosses are decrying more loudly the signal legislative achievement of the President they played a critical role in electing in 2008 and reelecting in 2012. In a commentary for Forbes this week (see…
Politico reports that the White House is asking Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO president, to pick its nominees for the National Labor Relations Board.
Writing on the WorkplaceChoice.org web site (see the link below), Trey Kovacs of the Competive Enterprise Institute discusses two reform measures recently introduced in Congress by U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.). The Freedom from Union Stalking Act (H.R.2472) and the…