By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 24th at 05:00 PM  | 

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the United Auto Workers’ Bob King thinks he’s just the union boss to make a go of it. With negotiations about to start with the Big Three American auto companies (two of which are UAW-owned), King is ramping up his rhetoric against the CEO of the only automaker that taxpayers did not bail out (Ford’s Mulally), while plotting | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 24th at 12:00 PM  | 

We know that the SEIU wants to convert millions of illegal aliens into U.S. citizens. We know the SEIU’s goal is to turn those illegal aliens-turned-U.S. citizens into a “progressive voters.” We know that the SEIU’s membership consists of illegal aliens from whom they collect union dues because they say so—freely. We know that the SEIU does not want enforcement of immigration laws, be it in | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 24th at 04:30 AM  | 

San Francisco—On Monday, February 16, a bomb blew up at Park Police Station, killing a police sergeant and wounding several others. Sergeant McDonnell caught the full force of the flying shrapnel, which consisted of heavy metal staples and lead bullets. As other officers tried rendering aid to the fallen sergeant, they could see that he sustained a severed neck artery wound and severe wounds to his eyes and neck. He | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 22nd at 01:00 AM  | 

For the last several years, outside of union bosses themselves, there has been no greater proponent behind the hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act—the failed bill that effectively would have killed secret-ballot elections on unionization in the workplace—than California Democrat Congressman George Miller. In fact, going all the way back to 2003, Miller has introduced the job-killing legislation in the 108th, 109th and 110th Congress’, where | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 21st at 12:30 AM  | 

On Friday, unions scored a temporary victory to maintain their ability to collect union dues from Wisconsin public employees when Judge Maryann Sumi (the same judge who refused to order striking teachers back to work in February) issued a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the implementation of Wisconsin’s new law governing public-sector unions. Via the Wall Street Journal: Judge Maryann Sumi said a lawsuit filed by | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 20th at 10:00 PM  | 

Sunday’s breaking business story is the announcement that unionized AT&T will be buying union-free T-Mobile for $39 billion. With 42,000 mostly union-free employees, German-owned T-Mobile has long been a target of the red-shirted Communications Workers of America. Now, as the mostly unionized AT&T Mobility has agreed to allow the CWA to unionize its employees without secret-ballot elections (via neutrality and card-check), the red-shirted union bosses are seeing | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 20th at 10:00 AM  | 

We probably won’t hear AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka comparing Arianna Huffington to Hitler; nor will we likely see Joey “BFD” Biden weigh in on the merits of collective bargaining in this case either. However, ever since Arianna Huffington suckered convinced AOL to give her gobs of money ($315 million), a cushy new job, and some prestige for her rags-to-riches rise to the top of the blogoshpere, she’s had a | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 18th at 04:30 PM  | 

Many people are aware of the Band of Mothers and the exemplary work they do on behalf of our troops. In sum, they are, first and foremost, mothers. They are also mothers who happen to be activists with an easy-to-understand mission: To support America’s warriors. The Band of Mothers conducts postcard campaigns, they write letters, they rally, and they show up in support of our | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 18th at 02:30 PM  | 

Imagine being at a dinner event and having your plate served with (plastic) cockroaches scattered over the food. Envision going to a hospital with a loved one only to be confronted with the hint that the hospital food is infested with bugs, flies, mold, and rat droppings. Pretty disgusting, right? Well, imagine how disgusting it is that these tacticss are due to a union’s efforts to | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 18th at 10:30 AM  | 

In Wisconsin last week, it was the police and firefighters unions threatening local business* with boycotts should they not support the union efforts to turn back the clock on their so-called collective bargaining rights. Now, like a pack of wolves, the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) has jumped into the age-old racket of shaking-down businesses. WEAC has sent an e-mail to hundreds of businesses belonging | Read More »