The problems with the nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board are laid out in the Washington Times. The former AFL-CIO and SEIU lawyer will be a push button advocate of forced unionism, and as his history…
Big labor has their wish list of legislative and administrative items and its growing by the minute. The latest demand is to change the law to make it easier to force thousands of airline workers to pay union dues and…
Lee Wishing’s blood started to boil when he heard President Obama’s speech before the AFL-CIO praising the Card Check Forced Unionism bill and rightfully so: The reason I was angry is that President Obama pulled off a rhetorical sleight of hand.
From the Wall Street Journal: The AFL-CIO crowned a new king yesterday at the labor federation’s convention in Pittsburgh. Now some Democrats are rushing to pay the union’s new president, Rich Trumka, tribute by reviving Big Labor’s top legislative…
Meet Naomi Walker, the Associate Deputy Secretary of Labor. Under strict ethics rules enacted by the Obama Administration, Miss Walker would be prohibited from contacting her former employer the AFL-CIO. But no longer. The administration has issued a waiver so Miss Walker…
Millions of American buy stocks and mutual funds in their IRA’s but if the bosses at the AFL-CIO have their way, less money will go toward your retirement and more will be diverted to the government. That’s because big labor…
If one of Big Labor’s selling points to attract new union members is union “Cadillac” health insurance coverage, why would union officials spend millions to promote ObamaCare? No doubt, with the plans passage, teachers and other public employees will quickly…
While declaring Americans who are attending congressional town hall meetings to voice objections to a government-run health care system as “mob,” the AFL-CIO and the SEIU have decided to enter the fray. According to a union spokesman, the SEIU will…
Union workers dues money is already mostly diverted to politics — ad campaigns, lobbyists, consultants — but the apparent next union boss of the AFL-CIO says that unions aren’t doing enough politicking. Richard Trumka, described by Politico.com as “unapologetically old-school…