SEIU Demonstrates Its Lack of Civility With ‘Civil Disobedience’
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 11th at 07:30 AM |
You’ve certainly seen enough video footage of the unruly union mobs in Madison, WI for the last two months. Well, the SEIU has taken its mob show on the road and, like the pioneers of old, headed West. For the last week, SEIU protesters have been demonstrating at the Washington State Capitol–a state largely controlled by Democrats. Late Thursday, however, the SEIU took its protests | Read More »
Latest GOPTrust Ad: Big Labor Has Become Like Frankenstein’s Monster
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 10th at 08:30 PM |
If you missed GOPTrust’s last hard-hitting ad, you can view it here. This, however, is their latest and it’s good.
Unions & Racism: An Age-Old, Institutional Problem Continues Unabated
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 10th at 03:00 PM |
It is rather ironic that, last week, union bosses used the anniversary Rev. Martin Luther King’s assassination to try to drum up support for the union cause. You see, even after all these years, racism and discrimination within the walls of the House of Labor is still very real. As noted by UnionFacts.com, since 2000, there have been over 4,200 complaints filed against unions for racial discrimination | Read More »
Appeals Court Approves of Union Fining Member for Reporting Safety Violation
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 10th at 08:00 AM |
It should come as no shock that unions have rules. They are usually a codified set of rules and union members are expected to abide by those rules. Almost always, a union’s rules are spelled out in the union’s constitution. If a member violates a union rule, a union has the legal right to place that member on trial (a union trial). If the member | Read More »
A Union Calls a Twitter Strike: Will Anyone Notice (or Care)?
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 9th at 09:00 AM |
In the mid to late-1960s, before the advent of the internet and blogging (before the founders of Google, Facebook and Twitter were even born), there used to be a show on television called Gilligan’s Island. For those of you old enough to remember it (or to catch the reruns), you may remember the episode about a Japanese sailor who, not knowing that WWII had ended | Read More »
Fuzzy Math & Fear Tactics: Claims of NLRB Cuts Leading to Big Backlog Don’t Add Up
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 8th at 06:30 PM |
Despite the fact that the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board is doing less work than it did 10 years ago and spending $66 million more per year (2010 budget), union extremists are over-the-top concerned that a budgetary roll back to 2003 levels would cripple the agency and create a massive backlog in cases. According to an independent analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, the | Read More »
Ohio Unions to Mandate More Money From Members to Fund SB5 Campaign Fight?
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 7th at 07:15 PM |
For the last two months, we’ve heard from government unions about their so-called ‘right’ to collective bargaining. Union bosses have downplayed the fact that they’re willing to sacrifice members’ interests for union dues. In Ohio, where SB5 was recently signed into law last week, union bosses are now so desperate to keep their dues revenue stream flowing that they are now considering charging their members assessments | Read More »
CWA Members Seeing Red After Union Bosses Blow Dues Money on Themselves
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 7th at 08:00 AM |
There’s an internal war going on in one of the Communications Workers of America’s largest locals, New York City’s Local 1101. Accusations of poor, absentee leadership has caused a group of rank and file stewards and chief stewards to start a campaign to reform the local. Now, the issues have involved the CWA International in Washington, which has placed a monitor over the local due | Read More »
California’s Gov. Jerry Brown Plies GOP With Wine & Urges SEIU to Buy Lunch
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 6th at 01:30 PM |
Oh, this is funny. Well, funny, except to the few sane Californians and businesses who have not moved out yet. The once-golden state of California has devolved so much in its budgetary talks that its recycled governor, Jerry Brown has taken to plying Republican legislators with wine and food. In a telephone town hall with SEIU and state workers, Moonbeam Governor Brown divulged his secret | Read More »
E-Mails Confirm AFSCME Boss Pulled Fleeing WI Democrats’ Puppet Strings
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 5th at 03:00 PM |
Most people watching the Wisconsin fracas over the last couple of months remember when, to avoid their legislative duties, Wisconsin State Democrats fled the state. While only the blind or infirm would not have seen the fleebagggers as being sops for their union bosses that they are, today’s news re-affirms it. Not only did Wisconsin’s Democrat fleebaggers coordinate their activities with their union bosses, according | Read More »