Posted on Dec 17, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
This morning, the New York Post was kind enough to run an article from the Center for Union Facts on the un-coy courtship between Big Labor and Democratic presidential candidates. The whole thing is worth a read, but it’s most important to remember that in this mating dance it will actually be working Americans who […]
Posted on Dec 14, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
We’ve outlined before the way that unions require their own employees to go through a secret ballot election when their public position is that we should do away with private votes. The latest example comes from The Employer Report, which writes: Apparently, Joe Hansen and his cronies at the UFCW have even more egg on […]
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Stories from the Washington Post and Associated Press remind us this morning that union officials have finally found government they don’t want to enlarge — at least when it’s controlled by someone they didn’t help elect. Union officials have been attacking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Department of Labor Office of Labor-Management Standards […]
Posted on Dec 13, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
From Rep. Buck McKeon, ranking Republican Member of the House Education and Labor Committee following today’s absurdity on Capitol Hill: “It’s telling that this committee’s final scheduled action before adjourning the first session of the 110th Congress was a politically-motivated attack on the authority of the National Labor Relations Board. Today’s spectacle was the culmination […]
Posted on by J. Justin Wilson
Watching the unions complain about the Department of Labor reporting requirements reminds me of watching OJ try to put on the bloody gloves. They go through all sorts of contortions—twisting and turning to great effect—ultimately arguing that categorizing their electric bill as “overhead” and their photocopiers as “administrative” is some sort of Herculean task. (Never […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
Interesting: … all the marching and rallying in the world is unlikely to convince the Hollywood moguls that a TV or movie writer has the same interests as a security guard at Arden. However, it will reinforce their belief that this strike is about the union, not the workers.
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
It was bound to happen: international labor groups defamed U.S. employers as they enjoyed their time at the AFL-CIO’s let’s-bash-America shindig this week. To wit, the labor group UNI regurgitated American labor’s bogus claim that tens of thousands of employees are fired during secret ballot organizing elections: Last year 30,000 workers were sacked for seeking […]
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From our mailbag: As a retired union employee from a large manufacturing facility, (Western Electric, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and finally OFS) I retired in April, 2005. As I walked out of the door for the last time, I assumed I was leaving with benefits and pension for life. Short lived both. In 2006 bargaining, the […]
