Reader: Who Are Unions Really Representing?
From our mailbag: As a retired union employee from a large manufacturing facility, (Western Electric, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and finally…
Mail Bag: Carpenters Trouble
From a reader:The Carpenter’s Union in Chicago has no elections for Business Agents. The only elections they hold are for…
A Reader Writes …
Frequent Labor Pains reader Silence Dogood of The Union News blog writes us:I noticed your wake-up call to the private…
“Have Congressmen Miller and Kennedy and their fellow supporters not read about Labor’s corporate campaigns?”
We recently told you about a speech by former National Labor Relations Board member John Raudabaugh, who warned a Federalist…
Unionized Teachers Paid Not to Work Need Respect Too
Like the jobs bank for idle Big Three autoworkers, the “rubber rooms” in New York City house unionized teachers who…
SEIU Sticking It To Washington’s Taxpayers
This morning’s Seattle Times has a must-see report on a deal between officials from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)…