Crickets Chirp As White House Spams & Sends Out Union Press Releases

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 12th at 09:00 AM  | 

Last week, many Americans watched President Obama stand in front of of his teleprompters and Congress and sell—no, demand—a still unwritten bill dubbed the American Jobs Act. While the President certainly gives an entertaining teleprompted speech, his demands were reminiscent of a third-world barter between a goat herder and a villager: In exchange for two goats (temporary tax cuts), you can give your daughter and her dowry (nearly | Read More »

The AFL-CIO, Communism & Right-to-Work in Missouri

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 29th at 08:00 AM  | 

There was a time when Communism was anathema to the U.S. labor movement. However, that ship has long since sailed. In fact, the tide shifted significantly in 1995 when John Sweeney, Richard Trumka and Linda Chavez-Thompson ousted Lane Kirkland and took over the AFL-CIO. Following their ascension to the leadership of America’s only (until 2005) federation of unions, the AFL-CIO dropped its ban of Communist Party members | Read More »

One Year’s Worth Of Union Dues Could Support 265,447 U.S. Workers For A Year

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 19th at 02:00 PM  | 

Union bosses have been engaging in class warfare for so long now that it’s become standard for the media to echo the meme without challenge. An example of such mainstream Marxism is in today’s Bloomberg piece entitled ‘Runaway CEO Pay’ Could Support 102,000 U.S. Jobs, AFL-CIO Says. Bloomberg’s piece relies heavily on the AFL-CIO’s Executive Pay Watch, which was set up years ago to conduct a | Read More »

Arianna, the Progressive Pariah: HuffPo Blogger Files $105 Million Class Action Suit

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 13th at 08:00 AM  | 

It seems Arianna Huffington has something in common with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: They’ve both incurred the wrath of the Left. You may remember barely a month ago when, following Arianna Huffington’s $315 million sale of her website to AOL, a group of unpaid artists demanded their “fair share” of the pie. Arianna refused to negotiate—wouldn’t budge, in fact—so, the artists went on strike. Shortly | Read More »

By the Dozens: Unions Stage Not-So-Massive “We Are One” Rallies

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 5th at 01:29 PM  | 

What do you do if you spend tens of thousands to plan hundreds of rallies on the same day and you get ignored? Did you see the thousands of union protesters yesterday? Surely you saw the several million workers that CWA President Larry Cohen said “were going to stop business as usual at work or after work to join vigils, community rallies or marches at | Read More »

Clinton’s 21st Century Statecraft a Success! AFL-CIO Applauds New Egyptian Unions

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 31st at 05:30 PM  | 

Yesterday’s post on the American Left’s role in leading regime change in the Middle East began as some research into the union role in toppling the government of Tunisia and to confirm a suspicion that there may be a link to the uprisings in Egypt. After all, aren’t we supposed to believe that all “peoples’ uprisings” are spontaneous and, you know, organic? Wait. What’s that | Read More »

AFL-CIO Rips Manchin’s DADT & DREAM Act Evasion: You’re No Robert Byrd!

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 21st at 01:00 PM  | 

Former West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin has only been Senator since November 2nd. However, he’s causing a stir among some of his staunchest supporters. When union bosses can’t keep their anger contained behind closed doors, you know that they are more than a little peeved that Joe Manchin skipped out on the DADT and DREAM Act votes over the weekend. Now, they’ve come out and openly | Read More »

Winners & Losers: AFL-CIO Abandons Obama on ‘NAFTA-Style’ Trade Deal

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 10th at 09:30 AM  | 

What a week! When it was mentioned on Monday that this would be interesting to watch with popcorn in hand, who could have imagined just how interesting it would get? Between Monday and today, the President of the United States has been called a sellout and ‘mentally disturbed,’ as well as essentially told to go reproduce himself (in a not-fit-for-print sort of way), all by | Read More »

Latte-Drinking Democrats: Did We Pick the Wrong Horse?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 9th at 11:00 AM  | 

Moving away for a moment from the question of will they or won’t they increase taxes, there is a conflagration of epic proportions going on right now on the Left. The Democratic base of assorted Marxist special interest groups are going bonkers (not that they weren’t already) over Barack Obama’s breaking his campaign promise to redistribute wealth tax the rich. At the same time, over | Read More »

A House Divided: Andy Stern’s Ex Slams UAW’s King Over South Korean Sell Out

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 6th at 06:00 AM  | 

Incredibly, there are people who are further to the left than former-SEIU boss Andy Stern. One of them happens to be Vladimir Lenin his ex-girlfriend, Jane Hamsher (former Hollywood producer and current proprietor of the ultra-left blog Firedoglake). Purportedly, Jane dumped Andy when he backed down from the public option in ObamaCare. Some months later, after Andy left the union movement and got a job as a | Read More »