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 »
There’s making an argument, then there’s making stuff up. A couple of weeks ago, Andrew Breitbart offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who could provide evidence that the “n” word was shouted by a Tea Party protester at the health care protest in Washington. So far, the Left has not provided any evidence and Breitbart has kept his money. On Thursday, AFL-CIO top boss Richard | Read More »
If you work in the private sector (except for airlines and railroads) the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) is a little known agency that can have a huge impact on your work life. Given that the goal of union bosses is to turn millions of Americans into dues-paying union members, what happens at the NLRB is of consequence to you, whether you’re an employee or | Read More »
As we’ve been forewarning for nearly a week, demonstrating his penchant for appeasing union allies, President Obama made a recess appointment earlier this afternoon of SEIU insider attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. The US Chamber’s Randal Johnson said of the appointment: “This recess appointment disregards the Senate’s bipartisan rejection of Craig Becker’s nomination to the NLRB,” Chamber Vice President Randel Johnson | Read More »
After more than a quarter century of observation, both from the inside then in opposition to the practices of today’s unions, there are a couple of terms that are being thrown out here for consumption: The Politics of Victimization and Martyrdom*. While both sides (the Right and the Left) have used the tactics described below to varying degrees, it has been the Left that has | Read More »
Labor Shorts: Exposing Union Bosses One Skid Mark at a Time… The latest (and largest) pile of labor news from around the country, given to you in short form from LaborUnionReport.com: Cat may become Obamacare road kill… Heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar said Thursday that the health care legislation being considered by Congress would increase its health care costs by more than $100 million in the first | Read More »
The union astroturfers went to Washington on Tuesday in their purple shirts, their red shirts and their brown yellow shirts. They were out in full force to make “citizens’ arrests” of attendees at an insurance industry conference. The timing appears to have been prearranged with the White House as unions and their front group HCAN coordinated their protest with President Obama’s demonization of the insurance | Read More »
Reportedly, there are 32 rules that you must know in order to survive zombie attacks. Right now, union zombies are mustering their money and their forces to make sure that Harry Reid stays in Washington to keep feeding them. Nevada, home of Senate majority leader Harry Reid, is one of six states deemed by the union zombies at the AFL-CIO to be “firewall” states. What | Read More »
If you live in California, New York, Illinois, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania, you may want to read this, then turn on your TIVO and bolt your door. Here’s why: Your state has become a “must-hold” state for the bosses at the AFL-CIO, which means you will be inundated with ads, home visits, robocalls, and ‘fly-ins’ from all sorts of Democrat dignitaries (likely to include the | Read More »
As the AFL-CIO Executive Council meets in Orlando this week, the Workforce Fairness Institute put this great video out. For more on the job-destroying and hallucinogenically-named Employee Free FORCED Choice Act, go here. ————————— “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 Follow LaborUnionReport on Twitter. For more news and | Read More »
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