Posted on Mar 04, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Obama tells union bosses that the Employee Free Choice Act will pass. Paul Kersey at the Mackinac Center says that taxpayers are paying union dues and fees. SEIU UHW is filing a lawsuit in California against Sal Roselli and other former officers of UHW. Some of the charges include: the theft of UHW property; the […]
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Today the Center for Union Facts (CUF) released an analysis of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) data which refutes union claims of widespread employer intimidation and lagging union win rates in organizing elections. In the first-half of 2008, labor unions won 66% of NLRB secret ballot elections, the highest win-rate in decades. This figure counters […]
Posted on Mar 03, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
EFCA could be introduced as early as next Monday. h/t: Shopfloor Ben Smith at Politico continues to cover the latest from the UNITE HERE civil war. Bruce Raynor makes a statement on the proposed disaffiliation vote at UNITE HERE. More Ford workers are accepting the new concessions. GM works out some of the details in […]
Posted on Mar 02, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
A wave of editorials against EFCA came out this weekend. If you haven’t checked our list of anti-EFCA editorials lately, do so! We’re up to 95 now. Unions are against a spending cap in California. The UNITE HERE dispute finds obstacles in the union’s own constitution: Ironically, Raynor and Wilhelm are hamstrung by a constitution […]
Posted on Mar 01, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Lets play Guess Who Said It: “Another cause of long-term unemployment is unionization.” No, it wasn’t the Chamber of Commerce. No, it wasn’t Chicago Law Professor Richard Epstein. No, it wasn’t CATO. It was Obama’s Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers writing in the “Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.” When I twittered that quote […]
