UFCW Locals Keep Bylaws Out of Members' Hands
Among the more memorable examples of unions’ anti-transparency antics is the UFCW’s 2002 lawsuit to keep its constitution hidden from…
SEIU-Backed Worker Center Targets Postmates
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is in the midst of a corporate campaign against Chipotle. Last year, New York…
SEIU Bigwigs Ask Where the New Members Are
Since 2012, the Service Employees International Union has been following an approach to stalling the decline of union membership in…
Union Hack Does Union Bidding at NLRB
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel’s office gave a boost to the SEIU’s $15 million-plus effort to unionize…
OUR Walmart: Still UFCW in “Worker Center” Costume
Annually, labor union federations and private-sector unions must publish an annual report to the Department of Labor (known as the…
Beware SEIU, Especially Bearing “Polls”
Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported on a “poll” by Hart Research purporting to show widespread labor law violations…
SEIU Draws on Exhausted “Strike” Playbook for Card Check and News Hits
Today, proto-union “worker centers” set up by the SEIU will stage demonstrations in up to 30 cities in support of…
Astroturfing a Worker Center 101
We’ve suspected that “worker centers” leading the walkouts of fast food restaurants and big-box retailers are union front groups, and…
CUF Lifts the Veil on Pseudo-Union Worker Centers
Our Executive Director Richard Berman recently wrote opinion pieces for the Providence Journal and Deseret News profiling misleading union front…
Labor and the “Union” Name: Is a Rebrand Really the Answer?
Labor unions have a big problem: Americans don’t like them as much as they used to. Luckily for the union…