Strange Bedfellows: Unions Protesting For The Right To Target Private Residences Get Tea Party Approval

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 28th at 05:00 PM  | 

Union thugs protesting outside the homes of their targets has become a weapon more and more unions have added to their already-large arsenal. Now that the State of Georgia may become the first state to outlaw the offensive tactic, oddly enough, unions are getting support from an unlikely source–the Tea Party Patriots. Last year, when 45,000 union members struck telephone carrier Verizon, IBEW union radicals | Read More »

Congressman & Obama Ally Accepts Social Justice Award From Communist Party Affiliate

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 13th at 04:30 PM  | 

“Rudy Lazano and I worked closely together to try and build a relationship between Latino and African American activists and union types. We called ourselves progressives.” Congressman Danny K Davis, Feb. 26, 2012. A longtime ally of President Barack Obama, Congressman Danny K. Davis [D-IL] was in Chicago recently accepting the Social Justice Award from People’s World, a Communist-based website. The editorial mission is partisan | Read More »

Verizon Strikers Using Children, Harassing & Menacing Replacement Workers [Updated]

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 9th at 11:00 PM  | 

It’s only been a few days since 45,000 CWA and IBEW members walked off their jobs at Verizon, however, incidents of harassment, sabotage, and illegal picketing have already begun to pile up. On Tuesday, Verizon obtained an injunction in Pennsylvania and filed for one in Delaware “to prevent ‘illegal’ and ‘reprehensible’ strike activities such as keeping managers out of buildings.” In one deplorable incident, a | Read More »

Verizon Offers $50,000 Reward After Sabotage On Day Two Of Militant Union Strike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 8th at 10:30 PM  | 

It’s been less than 24 hours since the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) called 45,000 of their respective members out on strike against Verizon and, already, there are reports of sabotage of Verizon equipment, as well as illegal picketing. According to a Verizon press release on Monday, there has been: Ten incidents of fiber-optic lines being deliberately cut | Read More »

Axis of Evil?* NJ Government Unions Unite Against Chris Christie and Taxpayers

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 2nd at 07:30 AM  | 

In New Jersey, where the last Democrat governor (while he was a US Senator) had a girlfriend who just happened to be the head of New Jersey’s largest government union, where the property taxes are the highest in the nation, and where the state faces a $10+ billion budget gap and the real debt may be as high as $176 billion, government union bosses have | 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 »

CWA Members Seeing Red After Union Bosses Blow Dues Money on Themselves

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 7th at 08:00 AM  | 

There’s an internal war going on in one of the Communications Workers of America’s largest locals, New York City’s Local 1101.  Accusations of poor, absentee leadership has caused a group of rank and file stewards and chief stewards to start a campaign to reform the local. Now, the issues have involved the CWA International in Washington, which has placed a monitor over the local due | Read More »

Union Thugs: This Time It’s Personal…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 24th at 03:00 AM  | 

Union thugs, this is for you: Yesterday, you physically attacked a friend, without provocation and without justification. Not just my friend, but a friend to many—thousands and thousands across America. Since leaving your ranks 17 years ago, CWA, I knew you then to be ineffectual and depraved but, by attacking a friend to so many, you have now sunk to the bowels of hell for | Read More »

A Union Boss in Charge of Procurements? What could possibly go wrong?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 31st at 07:30 AM  | 

If you’re anything like me, until today, you probably had very little idea what the Government Printing Office is all about. And, because there are more important things in life than keeping track of every little-known governmental agency and the administration’s various political appointees, you might have missed the White House press release letting us know that President Obama just made a whole bunch of | Read More »

Labor Shorts: Obamacare to cost Cat $100 million in first year & other union-related news.

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 19th at 04:45 PM  | 

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 »