By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 22nd at 06:21 PM  | 

Geez!  The never-ending story of fallen-from-grace governor Rod Blagojevich seems to be…well…never-ending. You may recall, Blago was the Illinois governor who allegedly was trying to sell the Senate seat of president-elect Obama in 2008. Well, lo and behold, Blago’s defense attorneys subpoenaed the President today and, according to this, there could some blowback on retiring SEIU boss Andy Stern. Today in United States v. Rod | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 22nd at 01:23 PM  | 

Let’s see if you can find the flaw in this story: UFCW strikers go on strike over management greed. Members of the United Food & Commercial Workers, Local 1167 have been on strike for nearly a week. With earnings of $19.55 an hour, they will have wasted $782 in wages as of tomorrow. The UFCW workers are out on strike over wages–they want a $0.10 | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 22nd at 10:35 AM  | 

Despite the unilateral recess appointment of SEIU radical Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board last month, the President is continuing to push the Becker issue by nominating Becker again for a full board seat: The White House Office of the Press Secretary _________________________________________ For Immediate Release                            April 21, 2010 Presidential Nominations | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 21st at 08:08 PM  | 

Big Government has the update on last year’s alleged* beating of a conservative activist by SEIU thugs: Last night in court the SEIU thugs seen pummeling Kenneth Gladney in the video pleaded not guilty. Kenneth’s brother Keith sent the information: We just found out that all the SEIU members plead not guilty to the charges and so we are going to trial. Thank you, Keith | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 21st at 07:31 PM  | 

On Monday, we posted on the threat to Anna Burger’s throne at the SEIU.  Although Andy Stern has, in fact, endorsed Burger, in a letter penned by four of nine executive vice presidents to the SEIU executive board, the EVPs urged the backing of a fifth EVP, Mary Kay Henry. In response, the Queen of Labor has penned her own letter (via Politico), asking for the | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 20th at 03:29 PM  | 

A weekly update sent out to the readers of LaborUnionReport.com: This week, to give break to the weightier milieu of the union agenda we wanted to lighten things up a bit by bringing back our ever-popular Labor Shorts and share some of the usual (and not-so-usual) shenanigans of today’s union bosses: First things first: The NLRB Scorecard: With the new, union-controlled National Labor Relations Board | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 19th at 05:35 PM  | 

Now, here’s something you don’t see every day. Tomorrow, President Obama’s Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis will be greeted by her own unionized employees picketing her. DOL Workers Picket G20 Labor Minister’s Meeting Where Across the street from the Dept of Labor; 200 Constitution Avenue NW Map Click here for map When Apr 20   starts at 12:00 pm Frustrated Department of Labor employees will conduct | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 19th at 04:19 PM  | 

A couple of weeks ago, we posted on the giant-sucking sound that the UAW has become to America’s tax payers. Well, the Truth About Cars blog has even more dire forewarnings than were previously reported on: GM needs help from the government in areas that have nothing to do with the Volt as well. A recent GAO report exposing GM’s $27b in unfunded pension liabilities presents | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 19th at 01:15 PM  | 

On financial reform, Americans are about to be duped into the Left’s agenda through cajoling and collusion just in time for the mid-term elections. Over a year ago, amidst the worst economic crisis in 70 years, newly-inaugurated populist President Barack Obama summoned Wall Street bankers to the White House to chastise them about the high salaries on Wall Street. Given that this meeting was before | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 18th at 09:34 PM  | 

It’s been a fight that has been raging for five years or more: Should workers have the right to decide whether or not to become unionized through a secret-ballot vote, or through signing a union card in front of their peers in a process known as card-check? Unions have spend an estimated $1.4 billion on getting politicians elected in 2006 and 2008 who have pledged | Read More »