Category Archive: Union Spending (page 4)

• Union Bosses Talk Wage Inequality, Rake in Six-Figure Salaries

  Posted on Jul 29, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  Six of America’s most powerful union bosses appeared at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, decrying income inequality and advocating for reckless minimum-wage hikes. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka urged voters to “stand up to Wall Street” and “build a new era of shared prosperity.” Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), praised the “[fight] for […]

• SEIU Faces Largest Decertification Vote in History

  Posted on Jul 22, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  A group of Minnesota home health care workers have embarked on a campaign to decertify the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Minnesota that currently represents them. Launching their decertification effort on Monday, they seek to extricate roughly 27,000 home health care professionals across the state from the SEIU. If successful, it would be the largest decertification vote in history. […]

• In-N-Out Learns a Lesson on Taking the “High Road”

  Posted on Jul 15, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  If you’ve ever been to an In-N-Out, you’ll know that the company’s distinct style consists of two colors: Red and white. From the employee uniforms to the paper to-go bags all the way down to the bathroom tiles, everything is similar. No longer. This month, an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board ruled that […]

• Boisterous Teachers Union Silences Conservative Members

  Posted on Jul 08, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  The National Education Association (NEA) is not one to keep its anti-reform agenda quiet. That was made clear at the union’s annual labor conference this week, where Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton—who received an early endorsement from the NEA—was recruited to speak. When Clinton praised charter schools—saying that “when schools get it right, whether they are traditional public […]

• EXPOSED: Local Teachers Union Protects Abusive Teacher

  Posted on Jun 21, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  What does it take to fire a really bad teacher? Apparently, a lot. A Project Veritas video revealed two union officials with the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT)—a New York affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers—brainstorming ways to protect an abusive teacher played by an undercover journalist. The planted (white) teacher, who hypothetically struck a minority […]

• NYC Union Boss Arrested on Fraud Charges

  Posted on Jun 13, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  Union bosses just can’t say no to luxury. Take Norman Seabrook, the longtime president of the New York City Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association (COBA) who was recently arrested on fraud charges. His crime? Seabrook allegedly steered $20 million in union money to a hedge fund called Platinum Partners in return for tens of thousands of dollars in […]

• Desperate Unions Resort to…Inflatable Rats?

  Posted on Jun 08, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  In America’s largest cities, developers are turning to nonunion labor for residential, commercial, and institutional construction projects. Sounds harmless, right? Big Labor doesn’t think so. “It’s putting profits before people,” claims Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. (Meanwhile, New York construction unions are notorious for paying black employees less than their […]

• SEIU Goes Rogue, Confronts Climate Change

  Posted on Jun 01, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team

  “[L]eaving oil, nautral gas, and other fossil fuels in the ground kills jobs, drives up energy costs, and threatens to strangle our economy.”—Laborers’ International Union (LIUNA) President Terry O’Sullivan   “We know first-hand that our fights for economic, racial, and immigrant justice are inextricably linked to the fight for environmental justice.”—Service Employees International Union (SEIU) […]