Big Labor Lackey
It’s sad that the president of the United States could be considered anyone’s lackey but in the case of President Obama and Big Labor the shoe fits snuggly. Matthew Continetti in the Los Angeles Times opines: The president has…
More on the ObamaCare Big Labor Bailout Provision
The Washington Examiner looks at the $10 billion big labor health care handout: Union bosses who have mismanaged benefits for their own members are poised to receive a $10 billion bailout from U.S. taxpayers in the form of a “reinsurance…
$10 Billion Big Labor Payoff
The health care bill contains a hidden provision that pads the coffers of the United Autoworkers Worker’s retiree health-care plan.
(Big) Labor of Love
George Will counts the ways the Obama Administration loves big labor: How does the Obama administration love organized labor? Let us count the ways it uses power to repay unions for helping to put it in power. It…
Obama Meets Bosses
President Obama took time from his schedule to meet a number of union bosses in his effort to enact a government-run health care plan in the United States. Among those in the room included Andrew Stern of the SEIU — the union…
UAW Bailout
We expect big labor bosses will seek a bailout for their underfunded pension funds, but the UAW is seeking another bailout of sorts. As owners of a lavish golf club in Michigan the UAW is asking the township where the course is…
Forced Unionism: Job One! Or is that Reason One
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), the House Minority Whip, correctly charged that taxpayers are footing the bill for the General Motors, United Autoworkers Union bailout because Michigan refuses to enact a Right to Work law. “I think all of us can look…
How Union Politics Drives Auto Industry
Mark Silverman is the Editor of the Tennessean. But in a previous career, he was a newspaper reporter in Michigan covering the Big Three, the UAW and their interaction with the politicians in Michigan. Recently, GM demanded that states pay…
Brutal Lesson
Saul Anuzi gives a short history lesson about the brutal history of big labor in Michigan: The reason that the great American tradition of making cars in my home state has now gone belly up is due in large part to…