By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 27th at 07:30 PM  | 

They’ve been agitating for a complete redistribution of wealth and power for more than 100 years.  Now, they’re getting pretty darn close to accomplishing it. Following the AFL-CIO’s August attempt to fire Michael Dell at Dell Computers, the Teamsters have gone gunning for the founder of FedEx, Chairman Fred Smith. From the Teamsters’ press release: At FedEx Corporation’s [NYSE: FDX] annual meeting today the Teamsters’ | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 27th at 04:15 PM  | 

AFL-CIO Boss Richard Trumka, the same guy who pled the Fifth Amendment  before Congress is doing all he can to carry the Democrats’ water for the mid-term elections, including (but not limited to) demonizing Tea Party activists. Last Friday, Trumka lobbed some rhetorical grenades at Tea Party activists using terms such as confused, cynical, deeply dishonest, and incoherent. Trumka and Working America Executive Director Karen | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 27th at 02:45 PM  | 

Aesop, meet Obama. Just days before Socialist Saturday (see #hashtags below), a series of union-related events are beginning to become large enough of an embarrassment to the Obama administration that they may be hard for the media to ignore any longer. With the abrupt departure of SEIU über-boss Andy Stern, the rejection (and subsequent departure) of his hand-chosen successor, Anna Burger, the President’s friends at | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 26th at 08:00 PM  | 

We’ll just lay the facts [emphasis added] out for you. Then, you can decide if you believe in coincidences: Fact One: In 2008, a group of  citizens in Harris County, Texas saw what appeared to be a massive attack on the integrity of the election process: When Catherine Engelbrecht and her friends sat down and started talking politics several years ago, they soon agreed that talking | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 26th at 01:08 AM  | 

Countdown to Nov. 2nd: 37 days. Perhaps it is from spending too many years in Chicago; or, perhaps, it is his SEIU/ACORN training.  In either case, our President has a fondness for “The Chicago Way,” even going so far as once having used the line: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” In November, many freedom-loving Americans (and their candidates) will | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 23rd at 11:30 PM  | 

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has knocked the once-mighty United Food & Commercial Workers union out of union boycott of Arizona over SB1070. It might be the fact that Brewer doesn’t cower to union thug-like tactics, or it could be the fact that she punches back twice as hard. Either way, the UFCW is throwing in the towel on its Boycott Arizona campaign. The grocery workers | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 23rd at 04:30 PM  | 

Have all the unions in the country gone to pot?  It certainly seems so. As California’s unions work to target the budding pot industry out on the Left Coast, it appears the UAW’s workers in Detroit are getting in on some of the ganga action. Unfortunately, some miscreant members of the Union of Ailing Workplaces United Auto Workers who work [cough, cough] at Chrysler’s the | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 23rd at 12:19 AM  | 

There are certain defining moments in some politicians’ careers that take them from the status of politician to a real leader.  In Arizona, the fight over SB1070 is Governor Jan Brewer’s defining moment. In the fight over SB1070, Jan Brewer has stood up to Barack Obama, his Washington (and Chicago) entourage, as well as the “hand inside Barack Obama’s puppet,” the Service Employees International Union. | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 22nd at 12:00 AM  | 

You know that old adage about throwing stones and living in glass houses, right?  Well, when it comes to hypocritical moments, today’s union bosses sometimes just outdo themselves in ways that leave you just shaking your head in astonishment. Take, for example, the United Food & Commercial Workers union (UFCW).  Even if you’ve never heard of the UFCW, you’re probably familiar with their work.  You | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 20th at 06:06 PM  | 

While many of us were in Austin for the RedState Gathering over the weekend, Andrew Breitbart was up in Chicago having some fun at some hate-filled, OFA lefties’ expense. According to Andrew Marcus over at Big Government: On Saturday, September 18th, Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart headlined an event entitled “Right Nation 2010,” held just outside of Chicago, Illinois. As you will see in our | Read More »