Posted on Mar 24, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
This week, the Department of Labor completed a labor favor that has been years in the making. The Department finalized and issued its “persuader rule,” a policy that requires employers to disclose indirect assistance they received in crafting a campaign to recommend that employees not unionize. (Prior precedent had required employers to report only consultants […]
Posted on May 02, 2014 by LaborPains.org Team
From the moment President Obama was elected, labor unions have demanded what former AFSCME boss Gerald McEntee memorably called “payback” for putting millions of dollars behind his election efforts. This week, “payback” came in the form of a new director of the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), David Weil. Weil is a former […]
Posted on Apr 23, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
The Obama Administration has made no secret of its efforts to stall the decline in union memberships not by reforming unions but by curtailing employee and management rights. The Department of Labor alone has reduced union transparency by abolishing certain reporting requirements and cut the number of investigations into union financial impropriety. Former Secretary of […]
Posted on Apr 19, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee recently began its hearings on Thomas Perez’s nomination to be Secretary of Labor. Many are asking questions about Perez’s record, but our Executive Director writes in POLITICO that Senators should be very interested in his and the Labor Department’s agenda: The Senate’s HELP Committee should have no […]
Posted on Mar 15, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
Unions lost a key ally in the Obama Administration when Hilda Solis resigned earlier this year as Secretary of Labor. However, the President appears poised to pick a backer of a key Big Labor policy as her successor. Thomas Perez, currently an Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department, is rumored to be the pick. […]
Posted on Feb 05, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
Yesterday, we found that even a clearly pro-union acting secretary at the Department of Labor (DOL) wasn’t enough to make some members of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) happy. Today, in the alternate universe where the New York Times editors reside, President Obama, too, has not been pro-union enough. The editors write: What has been missing for years is a […]
Posted on Feb 04, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
With the departure of Hilda Solis from the Department of Labor (DOL), Seth Harris is–at least temporarily–at the helm as acting secretary. But not everyone is happy about that. Harris is a law professor who served as Director of Labor & Employment Law Programs at New York University prior to this stint at the DOL. […]
Posted on Jan 25, 2013 by Center for Union Facts
With the news that labor unions have shrunk to their lowest level in decades, many media outlets looked to the Center for Union Facts to weigh in. Reuters: U.S. union membership falls to lowest percentage in 76 years The activist group Center for Union Facts, which is critical of the labor movement, said unions have […]
