Since the union appointees at the National Labor Relations Board have taken control, there has been a common complaint emerge from those NLRB watchers in the labor relations community that the Obama NLRB has taken a decidedly pro-union/anti-employer position. Unions and their apologists, however, dispute this. Well, if one questions whether or not the Obama NLRB is biased, one need only to look at the | Read More »
In New Jersey, where the last Democrat governor (while he was a US Senator) had a girlfriend who just happened to be the head of New Jersey’s largest government union, where the property taxes are the highest in the nation, and where the state faces a $10+ billion budget gap and the real debt may be as high as $176 billion, government union bosses have | Read More »
Unions have rules. Union members who break those rules can be placed on trial by their union and, if found guilty, can be expelled or suspended from the union. They can also be fined, as Nathaniel Musser has learned the expensive way. Musser, a former member of the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters, according to his lawyer, could not find work through his union. So, as union | Read More »
[This is an update to Friday's post.] On Friday, attention was drawn to a radio ad and new website that popped up by a group calling itself “Californians Against Identity Theft.” While its backers were not immediately identified (nothing on the website indicates who is behind the site), it didn’t take long to discover that, lo and behold, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of | Read More »
Let’s start with this screenshot of a new website launched by a yet-unidentified group that is calling itself “Californians Against Identity Theft.” Apparently, the sole purpose of this group is to scare Californians away from signing petitions to put ballot measures on California’s November 2011 and 2012 ballots. According to Capitol Alert, whoever is behind the scary site (and a radio ad) doesn’t appear to | Read More »
Last year, when Larry Scanlon, the Director of Political Operations for one of the nation’s largest government unions, the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), stated “the more members coming in, the more dues coming in, the more money we have for politics,” it was symbolic of a system corrupted by union bosses who enrich themselves at the expense of America’s taxpayers. | Read More »
A few days ago, it was noted how union tensions were escalating in the port town of Longview, Washington as members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have been protesting the opening of a $200 million grain terminal without using ILWU labor for its roughly 50 jobs. On July 11th, around 100 ILWU protesters were arrested when they tore down a chain link fence and, a | Read More »
On its main page this weekend, the Obama campaign website, barackobama.com, is featuring a video of the President calling for a bi-partisan approach to spending and taxing our way into bankruptcy. What is so disingenuous about the President’s call for bi-partisanship is the fact that the Community Organizer in Chief’s website is littered with activities to help angry government union bosses and their Marxist allies turn | Read More »
Assuming she has outside advisers advising her, Barack Obama’s Money Maven, Penny Pritzker, is exactly the type of individual Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will likely be targeting when the Department of Labor pushes through its new rules targeting “anti-union” employers In fact, it is rather odd that Ms. Pritzker’s anti-unionism hasn’t had a light shined on it by the union appointees at the National Labor Relations Board. Perhaps | Read More »
It it is worth noting that Clay Leon is the Financial Secretary/Business Manager of IBEW, Local 130 in Lousiana. According to the IBEW’s reports with the Department of Labor, Mr. Leon’s members pay Mr. Leon and his fellow union bosses between $30 and $38 per month in regular union dues and between 2% and 4% in working dues. [Yes, members actually pay more dues when | Read More »
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