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…
At the beginning of her Kentucky Senate quest when she was trying to gain some foothold, Alison Lundergan Grimes publicly endorsed forcing hardworking Kentuckians to pay for her political campaign or lose their job. That is what her opposition to Right to Work…
“Time and again, federal prosecutors have amassed extensive evidence that Big Labor bosses have orchestrated, authorized, and/or ratified violence, vandalism and threats for the purpose of securing forced-dues contract clauses or other union demands."