Two Kansas state agencies were working on behalf of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to identify potential new union members among the state’s in-home health care workers. The Kansas City Star reports that “the state’s Department of Aging…
The Hill says that Senator Specter worked “for hours” on a deal with pro-forced unionism Senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on a deal to get his support for the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill. We wonder whether…
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…
Big Labor Bosses have spent like drunken sailors trying to increase the support for forced unionism in Congress and the state legislatures, even borrowing millions against buildings that forced dues have paid for several times over. Yet, their drive for…
For Big Labor’s most notorious organizing partner, ACORN, the “chickens have come home to roost” thanks to a couple young people exposing ACORN (see BigGovernment.com for more). In case you only watch MSNBC for your news, you may not have…
The Legal Services Corp., a congressionally chartered, taxpayer-funded entity, has hired a law firm to ensure its workers are not forced to endure an intimidating card check organizing campaign. Big labor water carrier Sen. Tom Harkin didn’t take to…
While some wish to believe that Card Check Forced Unionism, aka EFCA, is dead, Human Events’ John Gizzi reports that the White House disagrees: Six days after outgoing AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told a press breakfast in Washington…
300 big labor activists will descend upon Capitol Hill to push their agenda of forced unionism, the Wall Street Journal notes. They are targeting members of Congress from Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana and other key states. This should be a…
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), the Senate’s chief proponent of the Card Check Forced Unionism Scheme claimed that he had the 60 votes needed to pass his legislation through the Senate but Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-MA) illness put the brakes…