Dan Walters is a veteran and often astute observer of California politics and he recognizes some of the budget problems California suffers under comes from the power of big labor unions have in the state, especially the public employee unions:…
Union bosses are doubling down in Virginia’s Governor race, dropping another $400,000 to try to push Creigh Deeds over the finish line. The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees union, AFSCME, dropped the money bomb recently to…
Obama’s Big Labor Lawyer choice for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) received a ringing endorsement from ACORN founder and Chief Organizer S. Wade Rathke. Rathke wrote: Here’s a big win no matter how you shake and bake it: Craig…
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union is using forced-workers dues money for a “new video and a five-figure buy of blog ads to accompany its rock themed RV tour” to push for government-run health…
President Obama took time from his schedule to meet a number of union bosses in his effort to enact a government-run health care plan in the United States. Among those in the room included Andrew Stern of the SEIU — the union…
Barack Obama recently nominated force-union-dues financed Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to be the next Health & Human Services Secretary. Gov. Sebelius reported only 14 contributors in her October 28,…
Once again, the lawyers at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation are on the frontlines fighting for workers’ rights. With the help of the Foundation, three Centre Area Transportation Authority (CATA) employees filed a federal suit challenging two…
Arizona’s parting Gov. Janet Napolitano’s executive order granting Arizona’s state worker union bosses the power to negotiate for more taxpayer funds was a blatant payback for the over $1 million Big Labor has contributed to her and the state Democrat…
When Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich approached the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) bosses for a pay-to-play scandal to appoint a U.S. Senator, he wasn’t cold calling. They have a long “mutually beneficial” relationship, one that the Wall Street Journal…