Last Friday, Standard & Poor announced its latest downgrading of forced-unionism Illinois’s fiscal status. The Prairie State now has an S&P credit level of A-, putting it in a tie with Big Labor-controlled California for 49th in the country. But…
Blogging for National Review Online late last week (see the link below), the Heritage Foundation’s James Sherk furnished an especially outrageous example of how Big Labor often wields its government-granted monopoly bargaining power in ways that hurt employees economically. Big…
From the Local 157 Blog: According to the website of , the exclusive makers of Scabby the Rat [reportedly a non-union company], the floats were originally designed for Chicago unions. Since then, “the rats have multiplied and…
From the Local 157 Blog: According to the website of , the exclusive makers of Scabby the Rat [reportedly a non-union company], the floats were originally designed for Chicago unions. Since then, “the rats have multiplied and…
Taking a lead from Indiana and Michigan, Pennsylvania is taking the preliminary steps to give Keystone State workers the Right to Work: Six GOP lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a proposal to make Pennsylvania, the “Keystone State,” the nation’s 25th right-to-work state. The…
The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and the felony conviction of the person(s) responsible for damages at the Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting in Philadelphia.
Fresh over spending over $1 billion dollars to elect President Obama and his allies on Congress, more than a half dozen unions are listed as benefactors to the inaugural parties. They include the Laborers International Union, the American Federation of Government…
The White House was none to pleased to see their abuse power invalidated by a unanimous federal court. White House spokesman Jay Carney derided the decision as ““It’s one court, one case, one company.” Our response: and there’s only…
Right to Work Foundation attorneys argued purported recess appointments were invalid because Senate was not in recess Washington, DC (January 25, 2013) – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down President Barack…