Archive: Aug 2016

• Construction Unions Build Barriers to Affordable Housing

  Posted on Aug 29, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  Governor Jerry Brown of California recently pledged to spend $400 million on low-income housing subsidies, as part of a plan to scrap local restrictions that make it difficult to build more housing in California—a primary driver of the state’s skyrocketing housing costs. (California is seeing a mass exodus of residents to neighboring states for that same reason.) Under Gov. Brown’s proposal, housing […]

• No Surprise Here: Union Bosses are “Out of Touch”

  Posted on Aug 24, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  Union bosses talk a big game when it comes to helping their employees. But the American people beg to differ. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, only 20 percent of likely U.S. voters believe that labor leaders “do a good job representing union members.” Almost 60 percent claim that most union bosses are “out of touch” with most of their members. […]

• National Employee Freedom Week Gains Traction

  Posted on Aug 19, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  This week is National Employee Freedom Week (NEFW), an annual grassroots campaign of more than 85 organizations (including the Center for Union Facts) educating constituents about their rights to leave their union or stop paying the portion of their dues that funds union political activities. The coalition is also promoting a new policy called “Worker’s […]

• Johnny Doc, Where’s the Brotherly Love?

  Posted on Aug 09, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  One of America’s most powerful union bosses has some serious legal problems. John J. “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, the business manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 98, is currently under federal and state investigation. Why? Dougherty’s own finances, as well as the union’s donations to political campaigns and “allegations of a pattern of intimidation.” When it comes […]

• Union Bosses Flex Muscle in Philadelphia—Literally

  Posted on Aug 05, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  With the 2016 election heating up, union bosses are busy promoting their agenda. And the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was a perfect opportunity to flex some muscle. Take John Dougherty, the business manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 98. As The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: “For Dougherty, it was more like contact, as he hugged guests, […]