Posted on Oct 25, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team
Uh-oh, SEIU. In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has a sex-related problem of its own. Executive Vice President Scott Courtney, who had led the union’s job-killing Fight for $15 minimum wage campaign, recently resigned from his post after complaints surfaced about his relationships with female staffers. BuzzFeed’s […]
Posted on Oct 19, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team
Right-to-work legislation, which prohibits union membership as a condition of employment, is taking the country by storm. Earlier this year, Missouri became the 28th state to pass a right-to-work law. And not only are states embracing workplace freedom, but counties are too. In Delaware’s Sussex County, for example, local officials have put right-to-work on the […]
Posted on Oct 10, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team
The month of September brought a long list of union misdeeds. Here’s the Labor Department’s worst of the worst: On September 25th, 2017, in the Franklin County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas, Michael Mathis, former Treasurer of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) Division 34 (located in Columbus, Ohio), pled guilty to one count of theft in […]
Posted on Oct 04, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team
Over on the West Coast, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS for short) is showing us how not to handle a board election. For background, CalPERS recently changed its board election procedures, violating the California constitutional requirement that voting be kept private. How? Voters who use mailed-in paper ballots, the most popular voting method, […]
