In all, IBB 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. (credit: INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF BOILERMAKERS) Retired Boilermaker’s…
Surrounded by Pennsylvania mining employees, President Trump signs his deregulatory “Promoting Energy Independence” Executive Order. Mining-sector jobs have rebounded rapidly during his administration’s early months. (PHOTO JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Employment Surges as Obama ‘Killer’ Regulations Are Lifted In May 2008,…
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…
Union Dons Authorized to Download Workers’ Personal Information Employers’ personnel files hold lots of private information about employees, including their Social Security numbers and those of their next of kin. If identity thieves gain access to employees’ names along…
Rand Paul Introduces National Right to Work Act to End Forced Union Dues for Workers National Right to Work President applauds legislation that would prevent union officials from extracting union dues from workers as a condition of employment Washington,…
Several employees and the owner of D5 Iron Works, a union-free, Illinois-based construction company, charge that they were viciously assaulted at a northwestern Indiana church construction site in January 2016. According to police records, witnesses identified Iron Workers Local 395…
Program Has Proven to Be Effective in All Political Climates In the months leading up to November’s general elections, top union bosses and their political strategists predicted again and again that their electioneering machine would ultimately install a Big Labor…
Efforts to Punish Forced-Dues Foes at the Polls Fail Miserably Among the many rebukes Big Labor bosses received from fed-up voters on November 8, the most bitter of all may have been the results of a number of relatively low-profile,…