Mob Dominated Union
A New York District Attorney is on a mission to clean out 50 years of mob influence in the LIUNA union (NY Daily News): Fresh from a record mob takedown, the feds have targeted one of the city’s most important…
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The Bargaining Bailout – We Deliver for You!
While federal workers cannot bargain over pay and benefits, postal worker unions have that power. John Hayward sees the connection between the USPS union bargaining agreements and the need for another postal bailout: Tad DeHaven of the Cato Institute…
Worker Advocate Hails Introduction of National Right to Work Act
Right to Work President applauds legislation that would prevent union officials from extracting union dues from workers as a condition of employment Washington, DC (March 8, 2011) – Responding to Senator Jim DeMint’s introduction of a National Right to Work…
Capitulation Failed
After capitulating to the union bosses, Gov. Mitch Daniels failed to buy peace. Democrats bolted the state despite Daniels efforts to kill a Right to Work bill where they remain. Now the union bosses are rallying to kill…
Fiscal worries, union power-grabs spark new Right-to-Work campaigns
From the Washington Examiner: In 1997, legendary journalist Robert Novak summed up renewed interest in the Right-to-Work issue thusly: “It’s so old-fashioned it’s a brand new idea.” Over a decade later, that observation still rings true. Faced with intractable budget…
Are They Serious?
Big labor threw the kitchen sink in the fight to prevent Republicans from gaining a majority in Congress but there are still two dozen Republican members who seem prepared to carry the water for the union…
Free Spending Union Dues
The New York Daily News reports that “As nearly 5,000 city teachers face the ax, their union shells out millions of dollars on feasting, boozing and partying, the Daily News has learned. Free-spending United Federation of…
Did You Know?
President Obama has jumped into bed with the big labor agitators in Wisconsin but Kimberly Strassel reminds us: Fact: President Obama is the boss of a civil work force that numbers up to two million…
Monoploy Power
Quirks in federal law have given union bosses power provided only to a selective few — the right to a monopoly. Whether you are the labor union for the NFL or for government workers…