Rent a Riot
Picketing isn’t what it used to be. National Public Radio [NPR] notes that the 30 people picketing in front of a bank in Washington, DC are not from the Carpenters Union, but, are homeless people being paid $8 an…
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Big Labor Ready to Cash In
The Weekly Standard has noticed how much Big Labor plans to spend in the upcoming national elections and what they intend to buy after they finish: The AFL-CIO is planning to spend $53.4 million on get-out-the-vote efforts during the 2008…
Gen. “Betray Us” Ad Backer Gets New Job
When Moveon.org attacked the patriotism of Gen. David Petraeus calling him “General Betray Us,” Americans were outraged. But the personal attack was effective enough to get its backer, Tom Matzzie, a promotion with the Big Labor-funded group “Democracy Alliance.”…
Playing Politics with the People’s Money
Big Labor Democrats are up to their old tricks. It seems that in their minds, they can think of no better way to celebrate Veterans’ Day, than to “h[o]ld off final passage” of a sure-pass “stand-alone bill containing veterans money…
Big Labor Wants U.N. to Decide U.S. Law
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…
Forced Unionization Would Handcuff Firefighting Efforts
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…
Best for Business
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…
Big Labor Intimidation: Greenmail
“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…
UAW Charged with Embezzlement
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…