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…
In an unprecedented move that highlights an incestuous relationship between the Democrat Party and Big Labor, the Democrats have offered their nationwide response to President Bush’s radio address to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
The Washington Post had an interesting article the other day. Seems the Carpenters Union can’t find enough real members who care sufficiently about the issue of low wages to man their picket sites. Instead, they are paying people that…
There was a time when the House of Representatives at least paid lip service to the idea of federalism, fiscal responsibility and state’s rights, but, it appears those days are over. The House, overriding state laws, has passed a bill…