Posted on Feb 29, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
For the past seven years, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)—stocked with rubber stamps for Big Labor—has run roughshod over employee rights and private companies in their dealings with labor unions. To pick just the most egregious example, the recent “ambush election” rule included a provision requiring that employees’ personal contact information be given to […]
Posted on Feb 24, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
For the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), collective bargaining is just the beginning. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago’s premier teachers union collects more than $25 million a year in member dues from roughly 28,000 teachers and administrators. How it spends the money goes far beyond run-of-the-mill pay and benefit negotiations with employers. Eight CTU employees, including CTU President […]
Posted on Feb 19, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
In 2012, the labor stronghold of Michigan passed a right-to-work law, allowing non-members of both public and private unions to refrain from funding unions they don’t want to support. It was a massive development, bringing substantial employee rights to the home state of the United Auto Workers shortly after it seemed like momentum for curbing […]
Posted on Feb 17, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
One pressing issue in the Democratic presidential primary is campaign finance and its impact on policy, with Senator Bernie Sanders pressing his rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on her record taking money from various business groups. This caused one Clinton surrogate, former Democratic National Committee chair and Vermont Governor Howard Dean, to speak […]
Posted on Feb 16, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
About a month ago, we covered Jeffco United, a union-backed nonprofit organization which led the movement to recall three conservative board members in Colorado’s Jefferson County. While the group claimed to be unaffiliated with any particular labor union, it was soon revealed that $283,500 or 99 percent of its funding came from unions—the National Education Association (NEA) in Washington, D.C. doled out $150,000. […]
Posted on Feb 08, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
Washington State campaign finance laws are very rigorous in their reporting requirements, and last week, Service Employees International Union Local 775NW (SEIU 775) found out the hard way. The state attorney general (a Democrat, incidentally) had sued SEIU 775 for improper reporting of transfers between the union and its political action committee (SEIU 775 PAC), and […]
Posted on Feb 02, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
An interesting item crossed the wires: Politico reports that the Teamsters Union’s court-appointed Independent Review Board (IRB) filed a subpoena for some Uber transportation account records. Court records show that the IRB believes that a Teamsters headquarters employee (who makes six figures in total compensation, according to DOL filings) was using the union’s credit card […]
