By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 8th at 12:51 PM  | 

America has become used to Democrat politicians pandering to “buy” union support, but more often than not, the term buying support is a loosely fitting phrase to mean pledging allegiance to a union or promising their souls to the demi-gods of Big Labor.  Typically, the expected favors curried in exhange for union support include promises of putting more money into union treasuries public employees’ salaries through hiring more union members public | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 7th at 02:22 AM  | 

Last year, the mainstream media (un-affectionately known as the MSM) and a number of pundits on the left were caught completely off guard when posters of President Obama began appearing mysteriously in Los Angeles and Atlanta.  It was a brief story, but it made a big splash around the internet. Well, seemingly unrelated to the “joker poster story” is a Gallup poll released last week that revealed that over | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 5th at 10:10 AM  | 

This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly unemployment report.  Surprisingly, the official unemployment rate dropped from 10.0% to 9.7%. However, several of the Commissioner’s statements give pause to immediate jumps of joy: The unemployment rate declined from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January. Nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged (-20,000) and on net has shown little movement over the last 3 months. In | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 4th at 09:46 PM  | 

As a follow-up to our previous post, the soon-to-be unemployed United Auto Workers members at the former GM/Toyota NUMMI partnership in California are seriously questioning how the UAW is unfairly targeting Toyota, instead of GM. Since Government General Motors is now partially owned by the UAW, these members are questioning the UAW’s conflict of interest, as well as its desire to withhold union dues from their | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 4th at 07:17 PM  | 

As a follow-up to last night’s post, SEIU attorney Craig Becker’s confirmation is organized labor’s “highest priority.” Earlier today, the Senate HELP Committee voted along party lines (13-10) to approve the SEIU’s President Obama’s nominee to the National Labor Relations Board.  As the NAM’s Carter Wood notes: Ranking Member Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) detailed his opposition to the anti-employer views of Becker, an SEIU associate | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 3rd at 07:06 PM  | 

Great Scott! * ** Things in Washington seem to be changing by the hour! Ever since Scott Brown won the Massachusetts special election last month, Harry Reid and his Democrat cohorts have been gaming the system, trying to rush through Big Labor’s President Obama’s controversial nominations like Patricia Smith (as the Department of Labor’s solicitor) and Craig Becker before Brown could be seated. Now, Scott plans to try | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 3rd at 04:44 PM  | 

As Big Labor’s nominee to the National Labor Relations Board, Craig Becker, has his Senate hearing this week, Stewart Acuff, the AFL-CIO’s main point person in pushing the delusionally-dubbed (and recently doomed) Employee Free FORCED Choice Act shared the Big Labor backdoor strategy on Huffington Post. It [sic] we aren’t able to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, we will work with President Obama and Vice | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 2nd at 10:56 PM  | 

In following the hearing of the Senate Democrats’ attempt to rush SEIU Associate General Counsel Craig Becker onto the National Labor Relations Board before Scott Brown gets seated to the Senate, it is interesting to read that Mr. Becker, despite years of writing for compulsory unionism, working and advocating for a union that believes in compulsory unionism now says he can be “fair and impartial”: Labor | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 1st at 06:11 PM  | 

For those who don’t know the National Right to Work Foundation, the NRTW is an organization of tireless individuals (including attorneys) who advocate for workers who become victims of union abuse–most notably when unions violate workers’ rights regarding forced union dues. The NRTW posted this hilarious video last week that we thought we’d share with you… [Brought to you in SEIU-purple borders.] —————————– “I bring reason | Read More »

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 31st at 01:24 PM  | 

Following the near-certain death of the union bosses’ hallucinogenically-named (and growingly unpopular)Employee Free Choice Act, the Democrats in the Senate are looking to throw their union cronies a bone by getting SEIU and AFL-CIO attorney Craig Becker seated to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) quickly, perhaps as soon as this week. As the rules and the policies set forth through the NLRB affect nearly every private-sector | Read More »