Montana in Play?
As big labor tries to grind out 60 votes on the Card Check Forced Unionism bill, it is critical to note that the two Democrat Senators from Montana have yet to stake out an official position. If you live in…
As big labor tries to grind out 60 votes on the Card Check Forced Unionism bill, it is critical to note that the two Democrat Senators from Montana have yet to stake out an official position. If you live in…
We have all heard the rhetoric of “green jobs,” but as we have warned, the term is a slight of hand. It really means government-created union jobs that bring green to the pockets of the union bosses. The …
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), the House Minority Whip, correctly charged that taxpayers are footing the bill for the General Motors, United Autoworkers Union bailout because Michigan refuses to enact a Right to Work law. “I think all of us can look…
The Examiner has reported that big labor’s pension plans are underfunded understands that the Forced Unionism Card Check Bill is an effort to force subsidization of these failing plans: Private firms could be required to save underfunded union pension plans even…
Lawyers representing the the big labor National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over financial ties between Bank of America and the Washington, D.C.-based Service Employees International Union (SEIU) that may be gross…
It won’t be long that the union bosses will be asking for their own federal bailout if the Wall Street Journal is correct: We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama,” declared Andy Stern last month, and the president of…
While big labor’s pension plans for workers are completely underfunded, the union boss pension plans are a different story: Pension plans for union officers remain healthy and well-funded even as rising liabilities threaten to consume the savings of their rank and…
The Sacramento Bee investigative team finds that big labor contributors got deals from the California Retirement Fund while a union boss sat on the board of directors. This all begs the question: why else would companies make hundreds of thousands of contributions…
Mark Silverman is the Editor of the Tennessean. But in a previous career, he was a newspaper reporter in Michigan covering the Big Three, the UAW and their interaction with the politicians in Michigan. Recently, GM demanded that states pay…