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…
Andrew Stern, the union boss of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been touring the country promoting a new book hyping the “shake-up” of union politics. But in Los Angeles, the former head of the local SEIU is being…
File this one under “hard to believe,” but the Big Labor barons at the AFL-CIO have turned to an international organization with problems of its own to hurt American workers — the United Nations. According to the Associated Press, the…
The largest teachers union in America, the National Education Association (NEA), has thrown itself headfirst into the congressional election with over $1 million in political expenditures against three Republicans: Jon Porter (NV), Heather Wilson (NM) and J.D. Hayworth (AZ). In…
The New York Times (registration required) reports that Brian M. McLaughlin, the Boss of the country’s largest municipal labor council, is expected to surrender on federal corruption charges. Mr. McLaughlin, 54, the president of the New York City Central Labor…