Posted on Mar 30, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team
According to a new report, government employees spent nearly 3.5 million hours conducting union business in 2014—a 20 percent jump since 2008. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) found that the average rate for these services was $41.34 per hour, costing taxpayers $162.5 million in total. The Federal Government’s labor management relations program has grown into a […]
Posted on Jan 27, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team
This week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its annual report on union membership. It’s more bad news for Big Labor, which has seen a half-century decline in its membership rolls. In 2016, only 14.6 million employees were union members—a drop to about 10 percent of the workforce. There are 240,000 fewer union employees now than […]
Posted on Mar 21, 2014 by LaborPains.org Team
Remember Karen Lewis? She is the radical President of the Chicago Teachers Union, American Federation of Teachers Local 1, which made national headlines in 2012 for going on citywide strike. (Our thoughts on that action aren’t subtle: You don’t block the schoolhouse door to stop reform of one of America’s lowest-performing school districts.) Lewis is […]
Posted on Feb 01, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
By John Raudabaugh, Former NLRB Board Member The Noel Canning decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has the potential for far-reaching consequences in many areas of the law. The balance of powers between the executive and legislative branches have been recalibrated based on the court’s opinion that President Obama’s recess appointments to the […]
Posted on Jan 11, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
It’s no mystery that labor union leaders are paid well. But a closer look at the numbers are still astounding. The Washington Times has the full report today, compiled from information available at UnionFacts.com. The article, which features our managing director, J. Justin Wilson, details how union leadership spends millions of member dues on themselves. There […]
Posted on Dec 10, 2012 by Center for Union Facts
After taking a few days to digest what is happening in Michigan, labor is still nauseous. Labor and its allies are hoping to keep their anger about the inevitable right-to-work law in the limelight with a visit from President Obama today. Over the weekend, some newspapers began to write the obituaries for unions in Michigan while those favoring forced […]
Posted on Nov 29, 2012 by Center for Union Facts
Unions like to play up the fantasy that they stand for “the little guy.” But that illusion quickly fades when labor leaders have to deal with those little people, and especially if those people are members of the union. The latest exhibit is Mariam Noujaim, an Egyptian immigrant and member of the 95,000-member SEIU Local […]
Posted on Nov 13, 2012 by Center for Union Facts
Unions like to portray themselves as the ones who fight back and balance out the equation between employees and management. But realistically, they are the yin to the company’s yang: employees and employers are interdependent, and one cannot exist without the other. This lesson is most clear today at Hostess, where 627 employees lost their job […]
