Big Labor Lackey
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…
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Pomeroy Wants You to Clean up Big Labor’s Pension Mess
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…
SEIU Not Alone
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…
Government Union Monopoly -- the New Tammany Hall
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…
Revolt Against SEIU in Illinois
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…
The New Big Three -- Job Killer Bills, that is
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.
Battling Coercive Unionism – It is worker vs. union bosses!
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. …
More Money for Deeds -- done
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…
The White House-SEIU-ACORN Connection
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…