Posted on Sep 07, 2023 by LaborPains.org Team
Do unions make a discernible difference in preventing workplace injuries? A majority of Americans believe so. According to a poll by the Employment Law Alliance, 63% of respondents listed workplace safety as a major factor driving support for unionization. Real-world data tells a different story. In 2018, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine released […]
Posted on Oct 18, 2021 by LaborPains.org Team
Today — in conjunction with the Tennessee General Assembly’s special session on the forthcoming Ford auto plant — the Center for Union Facts (CUF) is launching a public education campaign to keep United Auto Workers’ corruption out of Tennessee. The campaign includes five digital billboards, a full-page ad in the Tennessean, and a letter writing campaign. The billboards feature two different messages. The first message calls […]
Posted on Jan 14, 2020 by LaborPains.org Team
Today, the Center for Union Facts launched its #MeTooSEIU campaign to hold the Service Employees International Union and its political allies accountable for sexual harassment allegations against union leaders. The national education campaign highlights sworn testimony, legal documents, and interviews from current and former SEIU employees that describe a culture “plagued by sexual misconduct scandals.” […]
Posted on Apr 17, 2019 by LaborPains.org Team
On Monday, the Center for Union Facts launched a new project www.PublicUnionFacts.com. The first of its kind, the website compiles 20 years of data on public-sector union political spending in one place. The site includes over 385,000 political contributions from nearly 5,000 labor unions. Unlike most private unions, public-sector unions are not currently required to file financial […]
Posted on Nov 08, 2018 by LaborPains.org Team
This week, the Center for Union Facts launched its “Who Even Cares About Janus?” billboard campaign in Atlantic City. The campaign coincides with the New Jersey Education Association’s annual convention (Nov. 8-9) and the convention of the New Jersey League of Municipalities (Nov. 13-15). Teachers headed into town for the conventions will pass three billboards […]
Posted on Nov 13, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team
The Center for Union Facts recently filed a complaint with the IRS about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a worker center based in south Florida that represents primarily migrant tomato pickers. CIW is known for launching harassment campaigns against restaurants and supermarkets, seeking to extract “bonuses” from the companies for those workers (even though these […]
Posted on Dec 14, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
After months of combing LM-2 disclosure forms—the annual union financial reports required by the Labor Department—the Center for Union Facts (CUF) has found that labor unions sent nearly $530 million to Democrats and liberal special-interest groups from 2012 to 2015 for political advocacy purposes. 99 percent of Big Labor’s $530 million advocacy budget—funded primarily by […]
Posted on Sep 08, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
In most union workplaces, democracy is a thing of the past. The Heritage Foundation’s James Sherk recently found that labor unions represent eight million employees, only 478,000 of whom—a dismal six percent—ever voted for the union currently “representing” their interests. That’s right: 94 percent of dues-paying union members never even voted in favor of their union representation. (This is […]
