Posted on Aug 06, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
I suppose it’s a coincidence that Academy Award winning writer Budd Schulberg passed away on the same day that ten New York City union leaders were arrested on 29 counts of corruption, racketeering, bribery, fraud, and perjury. But it’s an odd coincidence. Schulberg wrote the Academy Award winning screenplay for On The Waterfront after researching […]
Posted on Aug 05, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Seventy-six years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the National Labor Board, which would ultimately become the bastion of unwavering labor jurisprudence we now know as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). A little known fact about the NLRB is that by adding “relations” to its name, the NLRB thought they could fool unions […]
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The paymasters at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) must be getting impatient in turning a profit on their multi-million dollar raid of UNITE-HERE. Yesterday Stern’s Workers United, a new division of the SEIU, filed a complaint against Aramark for putting its employees union dues in an escrow account, pending guidance from the National Labor […]
Posted on Aug 04, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Remember when then-candidate Obama won the endorsement of the Teamsters after privately promising to end federally oversight of the corruption-plagued union? I wonder if that’s still on the agenda after yesterday’s revelation that the independent review board determined that Chicagoland Local 726 has been engaged in all sorts of “financial malfeasance.” Specifically, CBS 2 in […]
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In 2006, the Service Employees International Union encouraged its members at the California Pacific Medical Center to refuse to take overtime. And now, according to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the SEIU broke a 1974 statute requiring 10 days notice of striking a non-profit hospital. That’s news, but it’s not what caught my […]
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The Associated Builders and Contractors have a new ad out against EFCA. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5leiCBZWME[/youtube] In case you didn’t get the title, watch the video after the jump.
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Well, it’s official (almost). Congressman Joe Sestak is set to officially announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Arlen Specter’s Senate seat. But with Specter racing towards an EFCA compromise and with the backing of just about every Democrat in Pennsylvania, Sestak’s chances look grim. Nevertheless, the Washington Post points out that labor unions […]
