Obama’s Big Labor Department announced a $35 million construction project that forces all workers on the project to pay forced union dues or fees and then forces them (through their employer) to contribute to underfunded union administered pension programs. Because…
The North Branch Construction company of Concord, New Hampshire is standing up to the Obama Administration’s determined effort to ensure that ALL construction projects funded by the federal government benefit the union bosses. In what is apparently the first effort…
It’s sad that the president of the United States could be considered anyone’s lackey but in the case of President Obama and Big Labor the shoe fits snuggly. Matthew Continetti in the Los Angeles Times opines: The president has…
Representing a state with a popular Right to Work law that protects a workers’ right to choose whether to join or support a labor union sometimes makes it tough to pay back your pro forced unionism political backers but in…
Everyone knows that the ethically challenged Service Employees International Union (SEIU) union bosses have primed the ACORN pump to the tune of millions of dollars of workers dues money, mostly extracted as a condition of employment but as Gary Beckner points out…
Fred Siegal and Dan DiSalvo’s intense look at government unions is in the new issue of the Weekly Standard and it is worth a read. The authors point out that the grand bargain between the taxpayers and public workers…
The intrepid Michelle Malkin writes about a parental revolt against the SEIU’s attempt to unionize home health care workers. Of course, this power grab was facilitated by the Illinois Gov. and big union tool Pat Quinn: Last month, I noted the appalling…
Manhattan Institute’s Diana Furchtgott-Roth identifies three jobs killer bills, and interestingly Big Labor Bosses are spending forced union dues in support of all three: Congressional Democratic leaders assert that several major pieces of pending legislation will create jobs.
The Warwick Beacon covers the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s efforts to support Jeanette Geary, a nurse in Rhode Island that the unions tried to railroad into paying full union dues without an accounting of how their dues money was being spent. …