By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 29th at 08:00 AM  | 

Brian Hayes, Esq. Member National Labor Relations Board 1099 14th St. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20570-0001 Dear Member Hayes: Our nation stands at the precipice of disaster, its future generations are indebted due to the overindulgent spending of politicians from both political parties. Our unemployment is untenably high, our welfare roles expanded beyond reason, both with no signs of easing. Meanwhile, our nation’s job creators are | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 28th at 10:45 AM  | 

On Thursday, when Obama’s union appointees at the job-destroying National Labor Relations Board issued their latest edict that America’s employers must post notices advising employees about their rights to unionize, apparently the post wherein the NLRB’s “skirting Congress was referenced bothered the non-unionized* staff at Media Matters. Interestingly, MMFers didn’t seem to take issue with the fact that the NLRB is destroying jobs and hurting | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 27th at 11:30 AM  | 

This is good. National Labor Relations Board Chairman Wilma B. Liebman, who has served on the Board for nearly 14 years and under three presidents, will leave the agency at the completion of her third term at midnight today, August 27. The White House has designated Member Mark Gaston Pearce to be Board Chairman upon Chairman Liebman’s departure. Chairman Liebman was first appointed to the | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 26th at 10:30 PM  | 

On the news that the job-destroying National Labor Relations Board is mandating employers in all 50 states to post notices advising employees of their rights to unionize (and destroy more jobs), South Carolina’s Governor Nikki Haley posted the following response on her Facebook page: Right next to that sign that is being mandated by Barack Obama’s union cheerleaders at the NLRB, I encourage all S.C. | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 25th at 09:30 PM  | 

When the National Association of Manufacturers polled around 1,000 of its members in July about the National Labor Relations Board’s case to shut down Boeing’s South Carolina plant, costing up to 5,000 potential jobs, the clear majority indicated the union-backed case likely will, or has already, had a negative effect on America’s job creation. As reported by the Wall Street Journal: Some 60% said the government’s | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 20th at 02:00 PM  | 

After two weeks of striking, it appears that the red shirts at the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) are heading back to work without a contract in hand. According to the CWA’s website: Members of CWA and IBEW at Verizon Communications will return to work on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at which time the contract will be back in | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 20th at 09:00 AM  | 

Over a year ago, the president of the United Auto Workers, Bob King, announced a campaign to ‘shame’ foreign automakers with plants here in the U.S. into allowing his union to unionize them–the details of which would be released at a later point in time. Earlier this year, when King finally released his new manifesto on what he expected the automakers to agree to, it was met | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 19th at 10:30 AM  | 

As of Thursday morning, there have been 202 incidents of sabotage since 45,000 Communications Workers of American (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) members went out on strike to preserve their Cadillac health plans. Of course, that was Thursday morning and, since the strike has been going on for about 10 days, the number of incidents caused by union unknown vandals will have | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 18th at 07:30 PM  | 

Back in the day, before Darth Vader saw the light at the end of the movie and when strikes were more prevalent than they are today, there was a time when union bosses conditioned their members for the eventuality that negotiations could break down and union members might be on strike—for a long, long time. Now, with the CWA and IBEW’s 45,000 members on strike | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 16th at 09:30 PM  | 

This is a developing story as police are still investigating the shooting of a non-union business owner, John King, by what appears to be a union assailant. With around 25 employees, John King owns one of the largest non-union electrical contracting businesses in the Toledo, Ohio area. As a non-union contractor, his business happens to be doing well at a time when unions in the | Read More »