Union Monopoly Power Will Bankrupt Illinois
Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of its second study of the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund (CTPF), which reveals many pensioners are on track to collect more than $5 million…
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SEN. PAUL: A union cloud over Obamacare as broken promises infuriate the president’s base
Sen. Rand Paul looks at the big labor flip flop on ObamaCare is hurting their members. “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be…
Taxpayer-Funded Big Labor: California Government is "our house"
Big Labor is so used to getting everything they want from the state government, they want everyone to know it’s their house, MyGovCost reports: On June 5, some 8,000 government employee union members rallied at the California capitol. “We’re letting them know this…
Big Labor Drove Detroit Over a Cliff
The Investors Business Daily agree that union avarice and greed drove Detroit over a cliff: The fundamental transformation of Detroit is complete, as socialism’s theme park succumbs to government run amok, a reminder that government isn’t the solution to our problems but their…
Stripped of Their Monopoly Privileges, Government Union Chiefs in Wisconsin See Their Empire Shrink
What happens to government union bosses when they lose most of their monopoly privileges? The Badger State is now offering Americans across the country an opportunity to find out. A little over two years ago, Wisconsin legislators approved Act 10,…
Right to Work Gains Momentum in Washington State
Chris Sullivan argues that for Washington State to remain competitive for jobs, it needs a Right to Work law: As Boeing continues to expand its operations in South Carolina and fears the company is looking for an exit…
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…
Chicago Teamster Union Militants Accused of Taunting and Harassing Funeral Home Mourners
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.
Obama NLRB Nominee Fought for Card Check Scam Bill
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.