Roddy Stinson, a columnist at the San Antonio Express-News has an interesting take on the Texas Attorney General’s efforts to protect the Lone Star State’s Right to Work Law from being undermined by the Michigan-based International Union, Security, Police and…
The Office of Labor and Management Standards (OLMS) is the part of the Department of Labor that protects workers by tracking how union officials spend the dues and fees extracted from members and non-members alike under the auspices for government…
We have seen a lot of underhanded attacks by union officials and their front groups to expand their forced-unionism power, but the United Food and Commercial Workers Union’s (UFCW) effort to embarrass Arizona’s Bashas’ Supermarket might hit a new low.
With $20.1 billion in aggregate annual receipts, Big Labor has become Big Business with a twist. It gets much of its money through force. Approximately 80% of union contracts contain some form of ‘union security’ requirement forcing employees to pay…
The Detroit News has begun posting a multi-part piece on the growing divide between union bosses and union workers. Part 1 of the exposé, “Union Divide,” by Mike Wilkinson and Ron French, contains some interesting facts and figures.
The recent Democrat presidential debate in Chicago left an obvious impression in the mind of one astute political columnist, Al Knight, of the Denver Post — “Democrats Love Unions, and Unions Love Democrats:” The AFL-CIO summer meeting is underway…
The Washington Times published a piece focused on Big Labor’s drive for more power. This issue involves Big Labor’s efforts to gut oversight of worker funds by the Department of Labor: If the OLMS cut in H.R. 3043 is also…
MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson witnessed the “outsider” and “reform” candidate for President — Sen. Barack Obama — having dinner with some true insiders: “I was eating dinner at a Washington DC restaurant the other day and I was sitting outside and…
Soldier Field in Chicago has hosted NFC Championship games and heavyweight championship fights, but the AFL-CIO Democrat debate was less of an historic competition and more of a love-festival to the union bosses and activists that filled the stands as…