Union Dons Back ‘Ghost’ Workers Over Real Ones
Mr. Cotten charges that, in addition to Mr. Santoya, he identified roughly 10 other “ghost workers” on the Local 1402 payroll.
Union Bosses 'Prefer That the Individual Employee Has No Independent Rights'
As eminent labor-law scholar Clyde Summers recognized, union officials “want unchallenged control over all aspects of the [workplace] contract, including its grievance procedure and arbitration which they created.” Image: University of Pennsylvania Law School Late last month, a group of…
Union Dons Favor 'Ghost' Workers Over Real Ones?
According to whistleblower Evan Cotten, top bosses of the ILA Local 1402 union took no noticeable action regarding his complaints about paychecks going out to fake employees for months. Finally, he went to the media. Image: WFLA-TV (NBC) — Tampa,…
Will Congress Halt Union-Only Public Works?
So-called “project labor agreements,” or PLAs, effectively force nonunion companies wishing to participate in public works to impose union monopoly bargaining on their current employees and hire new workers through union boss-controlled hiring halls. (CREDIT: WWW.LABORISSUESSOLUTIONS.COM) Obama Edict Still Stacking…
'Tensions Have Been Rising' Between Teachers and Union Officials
Early this year, dozens of Annapolis High School (AHS) teachers pleaded in writing to the hierarchy of the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County union (TAAAC/NEA) not to push through a contract that cuts their compensation. But their pleas were…
Bitter Missouri Union Bosses Smear Independent-Minded Employees
Pennsylvania law professor Clyde Summers admitted that, under labor statutes empowering union officials to negotiate terms of employment for nonmembers as well as members, workers who don’t want a union are often “made worse off” than they were before. But…
Union Monopolists Undermine New York Transportation Security
As a consequence of a public-safety workforce that is “hamstrung by [Big Labor] work rules,” security practices at the nation’s “highest-value terrorist target,” the World Trade Center complex, have long been and remain today “profoundly deficient at every level, in…
New Jersey Transit Union Kingpins Ready to Hold Big Apple Hostage
If government union bosses in New Jersey follow through on their threat to launch a transit strike this weekend, it’s estimated that 65,000 daily rail commuters to and from New York City will be left without a dependable way to…
'Apparently, Public Officials Must Sacrifice Their First Amendment Rights at the Altar of Union Interests'
Largely as a consequence of California statutes granting government union officials extensive monopoly privileges over public servants, cities and towns located across the Golden State find themselves in dire financial straits today, even though tax revenues have rebounded smartly since…