New Trojan Horse
The New York Times reports that big labor Democrats may have decided to drop the secret ballot provisions from the Card Check Forced Unionism bill. In its place, they would require shorter unionization campaigns. From the Times:…
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(Big) Labor of Love
George Will counts the ways the Obama Administration loves big labor: How does the Obama administration love organized labor? Let us count the ways it uses power to repay unions for helping to put it in power. It…
Why Are States in Bankruptcy?
Gov. Ed Rendell in Pennsylvania has thrown a bone to the state’s public employees union by offering interest free loans so they can pay off their credit cards bill. In fact, the governor is so happy he put taxpayer’s…
HI says Bye to Secret Ballots
Lawmakers not shielded by secret voting allowed union bosses to intimidate them into taking away secret ballot elections from working Hawaiians when the legislature overrode Gov. Linda Lingle’s veto preserving the secret ballot. According to Pacific Business…
SEIU, Obama try to stop Freedom of Speech
From Sweetness & Light: Groups urge NBC to pull health care ad Progressive health care reform groups demanded on Thursday that Washington’s NBC television affiliate refuse to air a 30-minute infomercial funded by a conservative group opposed to creating a…
Obama Meets Bosses
President Obama took time from his schedule to meet a number of union bosses in his effort to enact a government-run health care plan in the United States. Among those in the room included Andrew Stern of the SEIU — the union…
Boeing Heading to Right to Work States?
Boeing has been a huge Washington State employer for decades but the union bosses and their friends in the legislature have the company looking elsewhere. Apparently Boeing is considering moving parts of its production to South Carolina or Texas —…
The Real Threat
We have warned readers for nearly a year that as bad as eliminating secret ballot elections is for workers, the Card Check Forced Unionism bill’s mandatory government arbitration provision is worse for the economy. Shika Dalmia, writing in the …
Oppressive State Government Employers
Proponents of the Card Check Forced Unionism bill can’t seem to keep their stories straight. They claim they must eliminate the use of a secret ballot election to ensure workers can unionize over the objections of their abusive bosses and…