Posted on Jun 18, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
This week will pretty much be all EFCA, all the time. The special interest bill to deprive employees of a secret ballot vote when they decide to unionize is rearing its ugly head in the Senate. John Fund at the Wall Street Journal‘s Opinion Journal is on the trail: Unions have a right to participate […]
Posted on Jun 16, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
We regularly discuss the anti-corporate campaigns employed by modern labor leaders. Now PR Week is taking note of the phenomenon and the challenge it prevents to employers. The publication notes: Accounting for much of the success unions have had of late in organizing workers has been the savvy use of so-called “corporate campaigns,” where an […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
The Department of Labor is trying to crack down on union bosses who aren’t turning in their legally required financial disclosures. This isn’t a simple case of someone missing the time to file their taxes — this is about telling millions of union members how their money is being spent. At the Center for Union […]
Posted on Jun 15, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
So it looks like union bosses and their political allies are trying to get the Soviet-liciously misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act” to a vote in the Senate next week (come to think of it, we may well do something to alert the public). But for now, check out a great piece in The New York […]
Posted on by Jon Berry
The Philadelphia Bulletin‘s Bradley Vasoli spoke to us earlier this week and turned his findings into a solid article on the wave of Center for Union Facts publicity going on in Newark, New Jersey. Just this week, CUF launched a new round of advertisements on billboards, city buses, and a mobile billboard to publicize how […]
Posted on Jun 14, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Hot off the AP presses: States may force public sector labor unions to get consent from workers before using their fees for political activities, the Supreme Court said Thursday. The court unanimously upheld a Washington state law that applied to public employees who choose not to join the union that represents them in contract talks […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
The New York Times‘ top labor reporter, Steve Greenhouse, has an interesting feature on the new working life of Brian McLaughlin, who “has become the rarest of species — an indicted union leader who has gone back to work alongside the rank and file. He works each day next to members of his own union, […]
