The headlines say it all: Labor Movement Dusts Off Agenda as Power Shifts in Congress …New York Times Unions Hope Bill Energizes Organizing …Houston Chronicle Unions Push Pays Off in Wins by Democrats …Wall Street Journal With…
Big Labor’s backstabbing of its Republican supporters was an unwritten story of the 2006 congressional elections. Now Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-NY) has stabbed back. Despite being one of 15 GOP cosponsors of the AFL-CIO’s anti-democracy “card-check” bill, which union officials…
After spending hundreds of millions of workers’ dues money to ensure a Democrat controlled Congress, the AFL-CIO has produced a top five “must do” list of legislative items for Congress to pass. The list includes the “card-check forced unionism” bill…
A general manager of a New York construction firm has asked a federal judge to dissolve an 800,000 member union because several supporters of the local in New York allegedly waged a three-year “campaign of terror” against him, according to…
According to the U. S. Department of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards, Cheryl Martin, Michael Martin, and Leroy Holmes were sentenced last month for their roles in an embezzlement scheme which defrauded the Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) of approximately $4.6…
As the campaign season comes to a close, Big Labor is throwing everything it has into the political process. Unfortunately, much of what it has is money collected from workers as a condition of employment. On one day last week,…
Even in the American territory of Guam, the Right to Work is a winning issue. Guam’s five major business groups endorsed the gubernatorial team of incumbent Gov. Felix Camacho and his running mate Sen. Mike Cruz. “What tipped the scale”…
Elizabeth “Penny” Pinchler didn’t like it when big union organizers from UNITE HERE knocked on her door. They wanted her help unionizing Cintas, the nation’s largest laundry company. “How the heck did someone know I worked at Cintas and get…
Spending over $40 million of forced-union dues to elect Democrats, the AFL-CIO announced Monday that 100,000 union “volunteers” will deploy in battleground states and congressional districts during the four days before the polls close to boost the turnout of likely…