“Half of Colorado’s United Food and Commercial Workers would stop paying union dues if they could,” according to the union’s boss, the Denver Post reports. In a May 1 letter to members, Ernest Duran warns that the right-to-work initiative…
Colorado union bosses try to justify forced-union dues, and their opposition to a state Right to Work law, by claiming that all employees “benefit” from forced-union representation. But here is a clear case (one of an increasing number) where the…
Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) is stepping down from Congress due to personal indiscretions and Big Labor is salivating at his possible replacement — New York Assemblyman Peter Abbate. Abbate is “Albany’s steady ally of public employee unions,” according to the…
Despite bipartisan abandonment of taxpayers and workers by members of Congress from both parties who are trying to curry favor with police and fireman unions, the Winston-Salem Journal understands what the real issues are: The U.S. Congress shouldn’t be meddling…
Despite victories in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton is reeling from the defection of union bosses to the camp of Sen. Barack Obama. As the Associated Press reports: More and more labor unions are lining up…
The Department of Labor is demanding that union bosses make public more details of the internal finances to protect union workers’ dues money from abuse. The Department has proposed new changes to its disclosure forms. As reported by the Associated…
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.”…