President-elect Obama’s plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in public construction will certainly be funneled through union-only construction projects. Although only 15% of America’s private-public hardhat labor force currently belongs to a union, you can rest…
Former Rep. David Bonior — perhaps the union bosses’ best friend while he served in Congress — is pushing President-elect Obama to pick union activist Mary Beth Maxwell as his Labor Secretary. Maxwell, of course, has a long history of…
It is becoming clear that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is neck deep in the Blagojevich scandal.
In the latest podcast, Foundation VP Stefan Gleason sits down with Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey to discuss disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s connection to union corruption.
The governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, has been arrested, and it’s no surprise that union activists appear to be involved in the scandal. On page 69 of the criminal complaint against the Governor, government pleadings mention discussions with an “SEIU…
Barack Obama’s selection of a longtime labor operative as the White House political director raises troubling questions about his willingness to distance himself from Big Labor’s upcoming power grab. Patrick Gaspard was the leading political operative for the Service…
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has an idea to solve the automobile manufacturers’ crisis. Conyers wants the new administration to elevate United Auto Workers (UAW) Boss Ron Gettelfinger into the position of “auto czar.” Conyers said: Over the…
KGO-TV in San Francisco is reporting that “[a] group of San Francisco sheriff’s deputies is suing their union president, charging he embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars.” Five sheriff deputies are accusing their union president, [David Wong] and other officers…
James Walters and Matthew Simpson respond to the boss of Georgia’s AFL-CIO and his call for passage of the Card Check Scam Bill. Waters and Simpson get right to the point: The centerpiece of the Act is the elimination of…