In this year’s elections, Bob Casey (D-Pa.) (pictured with former President Barack Obama) and a number of other Big Labor senators will have to answer for their votes to perpetuate federally imposed force unionism. CREDIT MEDIA.PENNLIVE.COM National Right to Work…
New York Teamsters, who had for decades been forced as a job condition to pay into a union-controlled pension fund, were pressured at meetings into approving immediate steep cuts in their pension benefits. CREDIT: RICK CARLIN/ALBANY (N.Y.) TIMES UNION Teamster…
President Can Stop Infrastructure Bill From Bilking Taxpayers By the time this month’s Newsletter edition reaches its readers, the U.S. Congress may well have already received a plan from the Trump Administration calling for the expenditure of a trillion…
In all, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers union President Newton Jones and his wife, brother and son raked in roughly $1.6 million in forced dues-funded IBB salaries and “reimbursements” last year alone. Meanwhile, rank-and-file jobs are disappearing. Image: IBB In…
When Walter Overstreet was working, union trustees who had access to his pension fund’s books never indicated to him he should have any reason to doubt he could safely retire. Now he and his wife face a huge cut in…
Virulent Right to Work foe Richard Griffin will stay on as the top lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board until November 2017. Image: boilermakers.org Thumbing their noses at Right to Work supporters and independent-minded employees, and at their allies…
Government union bosses in Illinois wield such extensive monopoly privileges that it’s all but impossible for elected officials like Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to rein in exorbitant public employee compensation costs. That’s the key reason why Emanuel and other Prairie…
Even in Right to Work states, where Big Labor lacks compulsory-dues privileges, government union officials often wield inordinate power in the policy-making process. And taxpayers, students and other people who depend on public services, and independent-minded employees whose interests don’t…