As the Washington Post’s Fredrick Kunkle reminded us this past weekend (see the link below), union bosses from across the country poured “money and muscle into electing” Democrat Terry McAuliffe as Virginia’s chief executive this fall. Kunkle left out the…
From MediaTrackers.org: Members of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB) pay an average of $76.05 towards the salaries and expense reimbursements the union pays its top officers, plus $83.20 to cover the cost of conferences including officer trips to Switzerland…
Thousands of farm workers in the Central Valley of California object to unionization under a collective bargaining agreement with the United Farm Workers. But they’re being forced into the agreement anyway. Workers are being denied an opportunity to vote on the issue.
It looks like Big Labor might be getting tax relief from Obamacare, according to a report from kaiserhealthnews.org. “Weeks after denying labor’s request to give union members access to health-law subsidies, the Obama administration is signaling it intends to exempt some…
Union bosses and their apologists whine about “corporate spending” in elections but their forced union dues spigot puts more money in elections than their political rivals.
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the principal federal law regulating employer-employee relations in America’s private sector, purports to uphold the right to “form, join or assist labor organizations” and also “the right to refrain from” forming, joining or assisting…
Yesterday the Wisconsin State Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the constitutionality of the key restrictions on government union bosses’ monopoly-bargaining privileges included in the wide-ranging 2011 budget-reform measure known as Act 10. Roughly 14 months ago, Dane County Circuit Judge…
From an extensive Al Jazeera America article about the National Right to Work’s Unite Here Local 355 v. Martin Mulhall and Mardi Gras Gaming ( a case that could end card-check forced unionism as we know it): Mulhall, said…
It looks like Big Labor might be getting tax relief from Obamacare, according to a report from kaiserhealthnews.org. “Weeks after denying labor bosses’ request to give [special union-controlled insurance plans] subsidies, the Obama administration is signaling it intends to exempt some…