Union bosses like Lonnie Stephenson clearly swayed US Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to protect their apprenticeship fiefdom. Credit: www.ibew.org New Labor Department Head Can Green-Light Union-Free Training Shortly before resigning as U.S. labor secretary this summer amid rising fury over…
Until he was arrested and indicted this summer, Brooklyn carpenters union boss Salvatore Tagiliaferro benefited greatly from federal and state government policies that often make it extraordinarily difficult, in practice, to get training in the building trades without first joining…
Hawkeye State Municipalities Threatened by Federal Bureaucrats For years, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) bureaucrats have exploited a vague provision in the 1964 Urban Mass Transportation Act (UMTA) to bully municipalities across America. Time and again, DOL functionaries have invoked…
Does U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta really think reducing union bosses’ monopoly power over transit workers is bad for the workers? Photo: Copyright Getty Images For years, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) bureaucrats have exploited a vague provision in the…