In its infinite wisdom, Congress has decided to fund a $125 million pilot program to create “green jobs,” a training program to teach installation of solar panels, etc. But there is a catch — the money is only given to…
The American magazine asks an interesting question with an obvious answer: Why do the headquarters of state teachers’ unions tend to be so close to state capitol buildings? Authors Jay P. Green and Jonathan Butcher write: If you stand on…
What an outrage! To justify his vote to eliminate workers’ input in the unionization process, Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) is claiming that his vote to enact the Card Check Scam Bill was the “first step toward modernizing American labor law.”…
When U.S. Immigration uncovered illegal aliens working in a meatpacking plant in Iowa, the United Food and Commercial Workers asked authorities not to raid the plant while it was trying to unionize the workforce — including the illegal aliens.
The Chicago Tribune has uncovered an interesting twist in union organizing — companies and Big Labor unions cutting deals to allow union activists to coerce workers into joining a union, as long as the union bosses don’t publicize their activities.
The Denver Post has taken Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter to task for firing the first shot in the battle between Big Labor and workers, calling his pro-union-bosses giveaway “inane.” Ritter’s weakness also has been exposed in his inability to…
The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has announced the winners of its two annual essay contests on the Right to Work issue, the William B. Ruggles Journalism Scholarship and the Applegate/Jackson/Parks Future Teachers Scholarship. Valerie Bischoff, currently a first-year…
Big Labor has, so far, promised to spend a remarkable $35 million of forced union dues against a Right to Work initiative in Colorado. Much of the money will pour in from out of state. The Denver Post reports…
Big Labor will spend nearly half a billion dollars trying to elect Pro-Big Labor puppets who will pass the Card Check Scam Bill. Don’t just listen to us, listen to AFL-CIO bigwig Stewart Acuff. As reported by David Weigel on…