Blogging for National Review Online late last week (see the link below), the Heritage Foundation’s James Sherk furnished an especially outrageous example of how Big Labor often wields its government-granted monopoly bargaining power in ways that hurt employees economically. Big…
Workers in the grocery stores in New York City and surrounding areas are forced to pay union dues and fees to keep their jobs. It appears this revenue is not enough for the union officials…
Tired of not seeing where his forced union dues go and disgusted with the the U.S. Department of Labor’s decision to help union bosses conceal their extravagant benefit packages, UFCW member Chris Mosquera has filed suit challenging the Secretary…
The Daily Show exposes hypocrisy in a union corporate campaign in Nevada. Big Labor uses non-union temporary workers all across the country to create a the facade of outrage by workers. In reality, these faces of labor are hired by…
California Union Bosses, Marijuana Dealers Embark on Joint Effort (Source: June 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) From 1999 through 2009, the U.S. population increased by nearly 28 million. And, as dietary scolds often remind us, the average American is eating more all the time. Since 1996, purveyors of "medical" marijuana have generally been able to ply their trade in California without worrying about the cops. But now forced dues-hungry UFCW union bosses are hot on their trail! Credit: Monkey Muck blog Nevertheless, the number of U.S. grocery workers under union monopoly-bargaining control fell sharply over the past decade -- from 666,000 to 531,000, or 20%, according to the respected, Washington, D.C.-based Bureau of National Affairs. How could the empire of grocery (overwhelmingly, United Food and Commercial Workers, or UFCW)