Remember that piece we posted the other day about the 400lb union boss who stole $300k to blow on hookers and gambling? Well, on Saturday, the New York Post had a great piece on union corruption that started with this: Remember why unions were formed in the first place — to protect workers from being taken advantage of? Nowadays, the rank-and-file mostly need protection from | Read More »
Maybe Andy Stern’s sudden resignation from the Service Employees International Union wasn’t so sudden after all?… SIGA Technologies, Inc. (SIGA 6.76, -0.04, -0.59%) , a company specializing in the development of pharmaceutical agents to combat bio-warfare pathogens, announced today that Andy Stern, labor leader and prominent advocate for reform, joined SIGA’s board of directors. Mr. Stern is the former president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), | Read More »
If you haven’t caught this yet, you may want to sit down for a moment. After you’re done reading this, you should go to NoLameDuckTax.com. Now here’s why: The Obama Administration may be plotting to foist “Cap & Tax” on hard-working Americans (and their employers) after the mid-term elections, but before the new Congress gets sworn in [via Politico]: The plan is to conference the | Read More »
If you saw the movie 300, you essentially know the computer-generated and highly-stylized story of the Battle of Thermopylae. However, it is the real story of the Battle of Thermopylae that is far more inspiring. It has been argued that, were it not for this battle and, ultimately, the defeat of the hordes of the Persian Empire at Salamis and, later, at Marathon, the nation-states | Read More »
Sometimes, cannibals get into fights over the same piece of meat. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is launching a sweeping campaign to convince St. Louis Carpenters Local 57 to stop performing electrical work that undercuts union standards of quality, safety and wages. Billboards have been mounted in several locations, and the message can be seen and heard in radio and print ads this week. | Read More »
Courtesy of the New York Daily News comes this gross little story of union corruption: A roly-poly ripoff artist with a taste for hookers and gambling pleaded guilty Wednesday to squandering nearly $300,000 in looted union funds. [snip] The 400-pound married father of a young son cavorted with prostitutes in Manhattan, the Bronx and a notorious Queens motel offering specially themed rooms and short-stay rates. | Read More »
This is all you really need to know… Hundreds of recent federal rulings in disputes between unions and employers could be reopened after the Supreme Court said on Thursday that it was illegal for the National Labor Relations Board to decide the cases with only two sitting members. But for those of you that like to read the weighter legal stuff, here’s the SCOTUS decision | Read More »
Elections have consequences. In 28 states across the U.S., unionized workers can be forced to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment. If workers refuse to pay the union, the union can order them to be fired from their jobs. However, since 1947, the so-called Taft-Hartley Amendments to the National Labor Relations Act (passed over Pres. Harry Truman’s veto) enabled state legislatures | Read More »
You know when time are bad for socialists Democrats when one of their own becomes a capitalist lobbyist for a corporation fighting the SEIU*… Former House Dem leader Gephardt hired as lobbyist by firm battling SEIU Former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) has been hired to lobby for a major food-services company that has faced criticism from a powerful union. Gephardt and Tom O’Donnell, | Read More »
With the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board doing labor’s bidding these days, one would think union bosses and their Democrat minions would forget about pushing the job-destroying and hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act. But apparently that is not the case. As the Union of Ailing Workplaces United Auto Workers (UAW) meets in Detroit this week to install a new king (Bob King, that is), they | Read More »
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