The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is “building bridges” to the Republican Party by donating $50,000 to the host committee of the Republican Convention. This is a bridge to nowhere. The SEIU bosses are spending $85 million trying to defeat…
With Washington State quickly developing a reputation as a big labor fiefdom, SEIU boss Andy Stern has set his sights on the Evergreen State in his effort to limit the state’s investment in private equity companies. The Wall Street…
It is no surprise that union officials have been given amazing access to the podium at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The forced-dues dollars that have flooded into support and sponsor the Convention should buy something. Among those who…
As former House Rep. Jill Long Thompson takes on sitting Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, it appears that infighting amongst the Big Labor bosses in the state is hampering Long Thompson’s campaign for office. The Associated Press reports that a split…
You could be forgiven for thinking that Big Labor’s primary purpose is politics these days. With the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) well into its plan to spend some $150 million to elect the pet politicians of Big Labor bosses,…
Writing for the New York Sun, Diana Furchtgott-Roth has discovered that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) dramatically under funded the pension fund for its rank-and-file members. . . . [T]he SEIU National Industry Pension Plan, a plan for…
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation just issued the following news release. SEIU’s new rule forces local affiliates to raise PAC money or kick in workers’ forced union dues and pay penalties Washington, DC (July 17, 2008) –…
The announcement of a near half a million dollar ad campaign in Missouri by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for Democrat Jay Nixon’s campaign for Governor adds to the growing total of over $75 million of political spending this…
The Investor’s Business Daily weighs in on the $75 million SEIU spending binge. One thing is clear: The labor union bosses will spend every nickel they have taken from workers to strip them of their right to a secret ballot…