Posted on Apr 16, 2007 by Jon Berry
From John Engler, former Michigan governor and current president of the National Association of Manufacturers: “The Employee Free Choice Act would be more aptly-named the Employee No Choice Act” Phoning it in? “Baltimore Teachers Union organizing ‘virtual’ rally” Conflicts of interest a-go-go: School board trustee in California is renting to the local teachers union and […]
Posted on Apr 13, 2007 by Jon Berry
Context is often the first victim of activism — a truism I’ve picked up from this blog. One of our goals at the Center for Union Facts is to put the context back into any debate where isolated facts are held out with no regard for the larger picture. Case in point: the report released […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
The answer to that question, clearly, is Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao. She told a construction conference in Maine that the union-led Employee Free Choice Act was anything but, saying: It effectively takes away a worker’s right to vote in a private-ballot election. Under the card check process, it is possible that nearly half the […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Labor leaders complain about problems with secret ballot procedures. Apparently they would know better than anyone. According to allegations from the Department of Labor, UFCW leaders have been wrecking the ballot system within their own union leadership elections: The DOL charged substantial and numerous LMRDA violations, including: no secret balloting; ballot distribution and collection by […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Losing membership in the private sector, union bosses are increasingly seeking to organize care providers who are reimbursed by state funds — that way, labor leaders can pressure their political allies into recognizing the union and forking over more taxpayer money. The union drives have happened with childcare and health care providers everywhere from New […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Those wascally wabbits. The anarchists and Commies at the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) have been vying for re-born relevance with a multi-year, multi-state organizing drive against Starbucks. Now Newsbusters eyes The Washington Post for giving the IWW some publicity without mentioning the word “radical.”
Posted on Apr 12, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Thank God for the Internet, where there’s as much vitriol as there is stupidity. Media Matters — no fan of ours, to be sure — is a cornerstone of the anti-corporate set’s message machine. That’s fine. But sometimes they let their passion outpace their prose. This week, Media Matters’ Colorado outpost took aim at a […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
EmployerReport’s blog has it.
