When a Teamster union official says “things could blow up” people tend to notice. When Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa made that comment recently one wonders just what he means. According to the Denver Post, Hoffa was talking about the…
Democrat candidates for president continue to pander to Labor Bosses. This time it was the Communications Workers of America and the Building and Construction Trades who held auditions, and they did not go away disappointed. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Gov.
According to The Oregonian, something appears to be fishy at the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757: Two years ago, TriMet [Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon] filed an unfair labor complaint after it couldn’t find out whether a union-run program…
Rep. Randy Kuhl, in upstate New York, has been a forced-unionism supporter going all the way back to his days in the New York Assembly and State Senate. He even went so far as to cosponsor the Card Check Forced…
After Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) conducted his own Card Check organizing campaign, dealers at the Trump Casino in Atlantic City voted to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has filed an unfair…
Syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock understands the Card Check scam: As the Senate considers this anti-democratic legislation, Democrats will fight for union bosses like UNITE’s [Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employee’s] Bruce Raynor. He perfectly expresses Big Labor’s position on…
The Patriot News reports “[a] group of Pennsylvania Turnpike employees has filed suits in federal court against the International Federation of Teamsters locals that represent them, arguing the unions are improperly collecting dues from them.” Pennsylvania does not have…
We have talked about pressure that workers would be under should the Card Check Forced Unionism scam become law. Well, a New Jersey congressman has given us a little glimpse into the forced-unionism utopia of Big Labor. With union activists…
The Hill newspaper details Big Labor’s recent “renaissance” on Capitol Hill. Labor officials acknowledge that 2004 was one debacle after another, giving many political analysts the material they had been waiting for to write obituaries of Big Labor’s political…