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. …
Union bosses are doubling down in Virginia’s Governor race, dropping another $400,000 to try to push Creigh Deeds over the finish line. The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees union, AFSCME, dropped the money bomb recently to…
Despite claims of ignorance from the president about his knowledge of ACORN and their ethical problems, the White House’s own political affairs director has links to the SEIU and ACORN. Patrick Gaspard was a registered lobbyist for the SEIU and…
Lee Wishing’s blood started to boil when he heard President Obama’s speech before the AFL-CIO praising the Card Check Forced Unionism bill and rightfully so: The reason I was angry is that President Obama pulled off a rhetorical sleight of hand.
Forced unionism sycophant Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is predicting passage of the Card Check Forced Unionism bill through the Senate before the end of the year. Brown said he was talking to retiring Republican Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) as a…
New Cato Institute study exposes the high costs of public sector forced-union dues for politics: In May 2008, the city of Vallejo, California declared bankruptcy. Vallejo is an egregious case, but the trends that brought it to financial…
Give ‘em an inch and they will take a mile. With Jefferson County assistance, Kentucky teacher unions have been forcefully taking dues money from teachers who are not members. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’s attorneys have filed…
BigGovernment.com, the investigative website that uncovered corruption at the union funded ACORN group, has connected the dots between efforts to fund groups like ACORN with forced union dues and big labor’s efforts to deny disclosure of such grants to workers.