According to the Associated Press, two “national maritime union bosses accused of spending organizational funds on personal luxuries, including a bachelor party, have been convicted of corruption charges.” Michael and Robert McKay were found guilty Friday of racketeering conspiracy and…
McClatchy Newspapers report that “President Bush’s hopes of securing a comprehensive immigration overhaul have brightened considerably in the new Democratic-controlled Congress, but resistance from organized labor – one of the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituencies – could complicate those efforts.”…
With the legislature convening next week, Iowans are preparing for a frontal assault on its worker protections afforded by the state’s Right to Work Law. Governor-elect Chet Culver has vowed to sign into law any forced-unionism legislation that reaches his…
Under what organizational structure does the President work for the Business Manager? That question came to mind when reading an article citing comments in a letter by Mark Congi, former President of Laborers Local 91 in Niagara Falls, to U.S.
Connecticut state law bans public unions from organizing strikes or similar work stoppages that could interrupt normal functioning. But when two Stamford police union officials were questioned about a statistically improbable absentee pattern over a nine day period during ongoing…
We are not sure what is more outrageous — the fact that the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) will spend in excess of $2 million in workers’ dues in the first few hours of the Democrat-controlled…
Newly elected Wisconsin Congressman Steve Kagen was a beneficiary of Big Labor’s free spending of workers dues money for endorsing government-run health care and other Big Labor agenda items. Now Big Labor has come knocking for support on more issues.
Presidential aspirant John Edwards was on MSNBC’s Hardball program, pitching his support for the “Card-Check” bill, but host Christ Mathews’ questions did more to undermine the bill than Edwards’ answers did to support it. Surprisingly, Mathews, a Democrat who used…
New Jersey residents pay the most property tax in the country. The average yearly property tax bill tops $7,000 a year. Even New Jersey Democrat Gov. Jon Corzine supports reforming the tax system but his proposals have been stymied by…