New NILRR Studies
The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) has just released two new studies that make for interesting reading. In Compulsory Unionism in Everything But Name . . . , NILRR connects the dots between an 11 year old…
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What’s Big Labor Up To?
It appears that, once again, Big Labor Bosses are playing fast and loose with union member’s pension funds. In a criminal racketeering suit against Michael and Robert McKay, respectively, president and treasurer-secretary of the American Maritime Officers union, the Justice…
Undermining Iowa’s Right to Work
With organized labor looking forward to 2008, Iowa was a major target this year. Their work may pay BIG dividends! They have got the state’s Right to Work law in their gun sights. Incoming Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal…
Union Bigwig Adds New Meaning to the Term "Hand-in-the-Till"
A 186-page, 44 count indictment was handed down in November on Brian McLaughlin for alleged crimes he committed during his tenure as president of the New York City Central Labor Council, and a Queens, NY assemblyman. According to the New…
Union Boss Rigs Own Election
There is a trial going on in Houston, Texas that brings to mind just how vulnerable union supervised voting systems are to manipulation; and might go a long way in explaining why some union officials seem to be elected for…
Nurses Union Funds Embezzled
In late November, John T. Daley was indicted for embezzling more than $1.2 million in an alleged fraud scam he ran while acting as Chief Financial Officer of the New York State Nurses Association. “This case spotlights the vulnerability of…
Just How Accurate Are Those LM-2s and LM-3s?
In mid-November, according to the St. Louis Business Journal, Mary Love, former president of the American Federation of Governmental Employees (AFGE) union Local 96, was convicted “of two felony counts of falsifying government forms and three felony counts of theft…
United Nations to United States: Unionize Airport Screeners
“Millions of people living in countries that belong to the United Nations work in abysmal, unsafe and inhumane conditions that most Americans can’t imagine and wouldn’t tolerate. Yet rather than focusing on these problems, the U.N.’s International Labor Office last…
Colorado: Big Labor Sets Ambitious Goals
After Big Labor allies consolidated control of the legislative and executive branches of government in Colorado for the first time in a generation — with the help of forced-union dues — union officials expect to cash in. Mitch Ackerman, the…