Readers of this blog are familiar with the ongoing efforts by the union bosses to transfer authority over U.S. labor law to United Nation affiliate organizations like the International Labor Organization (ILO). Doug Bandow has written a summary of the…
The passage of H.R. 980, a bill that would would override state laws and make Big Labor bosses monopoly bargaining agents for local and state police, firefighters, county paramedics, and other public safety officers across America, has a bizarre side-effect…
The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council’s “Small Business Survival Index 2007” has ranked South Dakota, Nevada and Wyoming as the best three states in the nation for job creation and small business entrepreneurship. Not surprisingly, all three states have enacted…
“Organized Labor has a long history with extortion and the mob. Federal prosecutors have put most of those mob bosses behind bars, but unions haven’t renounced using blackmail to get what they want. They simply use more sophisticated methods to…
In Wilmington, Delaware, “[t]he financial secretary of the United Auto Workers local 1516 in Middletown has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 12 embezzlement charges. According to prosecutors, Stephen Priest stole over $97,800 from the union that represents…
The AFL-CIO continues to try to undermine American democracy by filing complaints with international organizations like the United Nations. The latest complaint involves a claim that the National Labor Relations Act “has now become a regulatory regimen that enshrines the…
According to the Salt Lake [Utah] Tribune: Dispatch Supervisor Roxann Cheever confirmed Thursday that she circulated an e-mail stating that the city’s public-safety bosses – not just an “overzealous employee,” as a police spokesman previously said – urged…
Readers of this blog are well aware that Federal law essentially protects union-led violence campaigns against prosecution. But when Don Adams, a Philadelphia resident, protested a visit to City Hall by then-President Bill Clinton, the last thing he expected was…
Ralph Nader, the one-man wrecking crew against job creation and freedom, has set his sights on a new target -- Repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.