Hawkeye State Municipalities Threatened by Federal Bureaucrats For years, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) bureaucrats have exploited a vague provision in the 1964 Urban Mass Transportation Act (UMTA) to bully municipalities across America. Time and again, DOL functionaries have invoked…
William Emanuel testifies before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions during his nominations hearing to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, on July 13, 2017. (Since the printing of this newsletter article, both Trump NLRB…
When Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi arrived on the set in Milton, Mass., Teamster tough John Fidler allegedly reached into her vehicle and threatened, “I’ll smash your pretty little face.” (After this article went to the printer, these four union…
David Shulkin, the VA secretary, is well aware that far too many VA employee hours are “being spent away from clinical duties and other duties” due to union “official time.” But his power to stop it is minimal. Nearly 350…
U.S. Appeals Court okays workplace racism if it is done in conjunction with union activity. The Steelworkers Union (AFL-CIO) union defended defended Anthony Runion, the fired employee, who yelled to African-American replacement workers, “Hey, did…
Hefty Paychecks Distributed to ‘Employees’ Who Didn’t Earn Them For half a century, Evan Cotten has worked as a longshore clerk on the docks of Port Tampa Bay in Florida. And he is a longtime dues-paying union member. Last…
Rejected again, Big Labor’s attempt to squash freedom and prosperity in Wisconsin by using the court system to void Right To Work. U.S.Court of Appeals said union bosses failed to provide “any compelling reason” for the appeal. Wisconsin…
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin held a press conference explaining the new enthusiasm in Kentucky and about Kentucky after he signed into law Kentucky’s Right To Work Bill. In the first quarter of 2017, Kentucky has seen…