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…
Sean Harrigan, a union boss with the United Food and Commercial Workers, is under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission, ProPublica reports. In a nutshell, it appears that financial firms showered nearly $1 million in political cash on the United Food…
Projo quote of the day: “This was a big mistake by the Obama administration,” said Cochran. “In 77 years, never has not one federal official attended the mayors’ annual meeting.” …
Saul Anuzi gives a short history lesson about the brutal history of big labor in Michigan: The reason that the great American tradition of making cars in my home state has now gone belly up is due in large part to…
Flush with cash taken from workers without their consent, the SEIU is bombarding California’s airwaves with a $1 million television ad campaign supporting new taxes on oil and gas, tobacco and liquor. At the pace at which the SEIU is…
After bashing everyone else for decades regarding pension funding, the Washington Examiner has discovered: Almost half of the nation’s 20 largest unions have pension funds that federal law classifies as “endangered” or in “critical” condition due to being underfunded, an Examiner review of…
The legal eagles at the National Right to Work Foundation have once again have achieved victory for workers discriminated against by both employers and union bosses: Angela Leitzel works as a field technician for Verizon in Tampa, Florida. Because Florida…