House Democrats Ready to Move Card Check Scam Bill
On Fox News, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (a big recipient of Big Labor political money) said: “I don’t know about the first month, but we’re going to pass it early.”…
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No Need for a Mulligan
Despite a federal bailout of billions of dollars, the United Auto Workers (UAW) bosses have decided not to sell their million-dollar country club golf course despite it losing 23 million dollars over the last few years according to news reports.
AZ's Napolotano's Parting Gift to Union Bosses
Arizona’s parting Gov. Janet Napolitano’s executive order granting Arizona’s state worker union bosses the power to negotiate for more taxpayer funds was a blatant payback for the over $1 million Big Labor has contributed to her and the state Democrat…
Music to Workers' Ears
When it comes to protecting workers’ rights, Sen. Jim DeMint continues to reign supreme. His recent press release is a good example: Today [December 12, 2008], U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement regarding the stubborn refusal…
Disclosure Rules to be Hidden
The implementation of union disclosure rules by the Department of Labor has surely been lacking — but even a whiff of disclosure for workers will surely be eliminated when the Obama Administration takes over. The Wall Street Journal notes:…
More Union Boss Corruption
Paul Egan, in the Detroit News, reports on more Big Labor union boss corruption. Walter Ralph Mabry, the former Detroit-area head of the carpenters union convicted of corruption charges in 2006, is under federal investigation in connection with an alleged…
Scandal Stopped Big Labor Payoff
From the Wall Street Journal: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was preparing to issue an executive order prior to his arrest last week [December 9, 2008] that would have allowed union organizing of home-care workers that could have benefited a…
Parting Payoff
In what can only be described as a parting payoff for the Arizona union bosses, Gov. Janet Napolitano — who is leaving the state to fill a position in the Obama Administration — is prepared to sign an executive…
Contract? What Contract?
The Washington Post makes clear that when a teacher’s union in Hawaii inked a contract that provided for more pay in exchange for random drug testing, they chose to take the money and run. Since the teachers’ union approved…