Posted on Mar 21, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
A replacement worker at the Toledo Blade says his car was torched by union thugs. Successful organizing of gaming dealers in Atlantic City has union bosses eyeing Las Vegas, where the Mirage is looking to get away from a card check agreement. The Teamsters are putting up a roadblock to Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell’s plan […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Angered by Mayor Richard Daley’s veto of the economically moronic “Big Box Living Wage,” unions are back to prove Chicago is their kind of town. Now one business group is saying union bosses tried to use their members’ money as a battle ax to intimidate Chicago’s City Council. The Chicago Sun-Times picks up the story […]
Posted on by Jon Berry
Across the country, state and local governments are revealing entitlement promises to current and retired employees that can’t possibly be upheld without monster tax hikes. Typically, these inflated pensions and benefit packages were handed over by lawmakers under pressure from public employee unions in exchange for keeping said lawmakers in office. This week’s news brings […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
The Senate will hold hearings on the bill only Orwell could love, the “Employee Free Choice Act” on March 27. As NAM’s Carter Wood notes, “By coincidence, next week is also a big week for union members to descend on the nation’s capital. By coincidence.” For a brief look at the issue, click here.
Posted on Mar 20, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Union bosses seem to have forgotten the rule that you “never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” But editorial page writers from across the country continue to reject Big Labor’s lobbying gambit to take away the right to a personal, private ballot vote when employees are deciding whether to join […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
The EmployerReport.com blog is all over more humiliating news from the ranks of UFCW leadership. And these are the guys who want to represent millions more Americans.
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
An interesting string of stories points to the continuing use of member dues money for lobbying. The Bureau of National Affairs Daily Labor Report notes (subscription required): The House Ethics Committee has approved the first privately sponsored trip taken by a lawmaker under new rules adopted in January when it approved a trip paid for […]
Posted on Mar 19, 2007 by J. Justin Wilson
From several months ago, this video is still classic: “Is a local union crossing the line with recruiting for picketers at area homeless shelters?” So asked a DC-area television station a few months ago when it discovered that the United Brotherhood of Carpenters is paying (non-unionized) homeless people low wages to picket businesses in the stead of unionized construction workers.
