Is Ron Bloom a blooming Maoist? It seems that the late Mao Zedong has become something of an idol in the Obama Administration. First, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn tells an audience one of her two favorite political philosophers is China’s late Communist leader and mass murderer Mao Zedong. Now, we come to learn that President Obama’s Manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom may also be | Read More »
Imagine a Supreme Court Justice being confirmed without a hearing. Well, in labor relations, the National Labor Relations Board is like the Supreme Court when it comes to hearing issues affecting the relationships between employers, employees and unions. In two days, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (ironically called HELP) will be voting to confirm union radical Craig Becker’s nomination to the National | Read More »
It’s noteworthy when one of America’s most ardent and well-known union supporters employed by the federal government gets picketed and accused of hypocrisy by her own union staff. And that is exactly what happened to former union attorney and current National Labor Relations Board Chairman Wilma Liebman last Wednesday. On Wednesday, NLRB Chairman Liebman spoke at San Francisco’s posh Hotel Kabuki on developments in labor | Read More »
On Wednesday, a critical vote is taking place in a United States Senate subcommitte that affects nearly every working American regardless whether they own a business, or work for one. SOME BACKGROUND… The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) affects nearly every employer and employee in the private sector (except airlines and railroads, which are covered by the Railway Labor Act). Unions would like to change | Read More »
[Cross-posted on LaborUnionReport.com's blog] Vol. 1, Issue 4 It’s Friday and our socks are soaked as Mother Nature drops an early winter Nor’easter on the Eastern third of the U.S. (yep, even some snow flurries in October!). Nevertheless, we persevere in order to provide you with our fourth installment of LaborUnionReport’s Labor Shorts, where we expose another week’s worth of shenanigans from today’s union bosses. | Read More »
It has long been argued that the King-Maker is more powerful than the King, as America is just beginning to learn. Indeed, the Union Label Blog has even questioned whether the SEIU’s Lavender-Lapeled Lord of Labor Andy Stern is, in fact, the hand in President Barack Obama’s puppet, citing a LA Times article that reported: When the president met privately with the health industry leaders | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick Union bosses have the federal government all sewn up. They’ve got a lock on the White House, they’ve got a lock on the Senate, as well as the House of Representatives. So, what’s the problem? Immediately following the election, the President-Elect appointed the AFL-CIO’s Ellen Moran to be White House Communications Director (she has since moved on to the census-controlling | Read More »
We found this on Breitbart earlier and crossposted it here. The Purple People Eater Union, otherwise known as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) wants the 2010 census to count everyone who happens to be in America, whether they are here legally or not. From the Purple Beast’s website: It is in peoples’ best interest to be counted because the US Census is how our | Read More »
If you thought individual rights are under seige today, here’s something you may not know: Union bosses and Democrats (which has become the de facto Labor Party in the U.S. today) have a plan that will further cause your individual rights to deteriorate, increase unemployment, as well as help establish one-party rule for years to come. It’s a hallucinogencially-named bill called the Employee Free Choice Act (or EFCA). For over | Read More »
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