By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 20th at 12:00 PM  | 

To say that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union is a militant union would be something of an understatement. Following the deadly 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike (of which the ILWU still commemorates ‘Bloody Thursday‘), the longshoremen’s union (originally part of the International Longshoremen’s Association) has controlled the West Coast ports for nearly 80 years and its militancy continues to this day. In Washington state the ILWU | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 19th at 06:00 PM  | 

This week, on Monday and Tuesday, an “open meeting” occurred at President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board over the NLRB’s proposal to move toward ambush elections. Though largely a waste of time, since the union appointees running the NLRB have little intent to listen to the practical side of labor relations and will do the unions’ bidding, there is a simple solution to resolving this | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 17th at 11:00 AM  | 

Across the nation, states, counties, and municipalities are facing a fiscal calamity. Even before the 2008 economic meltdown, many states were facing a sea of red ink due to over-promising, poor fiscal planning, and too much political influence from government union bosses. Now, as politicians of both parties grapple with the mess created by years of passing the buck, they are faced with taxpayers revolting | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 15th at 11:30 AM  | 

As unbelievable as this may sound, a union boss with New Jersey’s Police Benevolent Association (a union that represents police in Monmouth County, NJ) is pressing charges within the union against one of his own union members for violating his membership loyalty oath to the union–for doing his job as a New Jersey state legislator. According to the Asbury Park Press, Republican NJ Assemblyman David | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 13th at 08:00 PM  | 

If you thought the union extremists at the National Labor Relations Board were a little…er…extreme, wait until you get a load of this latest example of an agency run amok. Every week the NLRB publishes a summary of NLRB decisions. In the Board’s latest weekly summary, there was one decision summary that seemed rather unique since it stated: The Board granted the Acting General Counsel’s | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 13th at 02:30 PM  | 

With nearly $1 million per month in union dues up for grabs, it’s a winner-takes-all contest of which union gets its hands into the pockets of nearly 25,000 flight attendants.  As a result, the Machinists’ union that (along with President Obama’s NLRB) is charging Boeing with labor law violations is alleging that another union, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) also violated the law when | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 12th at 11:15 PM  | 

As late as Monday, the Teamster-represented funeral directors, embalmers and livery drivers from four Chicago-area nursing home were prepared to walk out on strike on Tuesday over an impasse in negotiations with Service Corporation International. However, when vandals struck three out of four of the funeral homes that were to have been targeted by the strike, the Teamsters hastily postponed walking out on the dead. | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 11th at 06:00 PM  | 

Perhaps it’s because the union extremists at the National Labor Relations Board have 40% less work than their predecessors in 2001, yet have nearly $67 million more in their budget, that they now have money to blow on an August conference in Washington, D.C…Or, perhaps it’s because they seem immune from Congressional oversight. Regardless the reason, in August, the National Labor Relations Board is apparently holding | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 11th at 07:30 AM  | 

What’s the purpose of buying a Democrat if they just don’t deliver the goods? That’s been union bosses’ ham-fisted message to Democrats for a couple of months now: If Democrats don’t start delivering on what union bosses expect, union bosses will pull their funds. Well, it appears that union bosses are making good on their threats–or, like sending a dead fish, they’re putting the message | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 8th at 07:00 PM  | 

Attention job creators (and those who do not want a union in their work lives): If you are concerned about the Obama administration’s latest assault on America’s job creators, as well as union bosses putting more of a stranglehold on the economy through President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board, you may wish to attend the NLRB’s “open meeting” on July 18th and 19th in Washington, DC. | Read More »