Obama’s Labor Secretary Sends Labor Day Message to Notorious SEIU: “You are now…part of the solution.”

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 1st at 12:30 PM  | 

Barack Obama’s Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, has never shied away from her affinity for union bosses. Though she has never been a union member herself (nor has she ever worked in the private sector), her love of unions, apparently, comes from her parents’ membership in unions. Unlike most political opportunists who have fought and climbed their way to the top of the political ladder | Read More »

California’s Jerry Brown Shows Some Sanity With Card-Check Veto

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  June 29th at 02:30 PM  | 

It’s bad enough when the federal government forced a man-made drought in order to save a fresh-water sardine, costing farmers and farm workers their livelihoods.  However, when the lunatic Left in California’s legislature passed SB104–an Orwellian bill to effectively strip California’s migrant farm workers of their right to a secret-ballot election–it seemed almost a fait accompli that liberal governor Jerry Brown (who granted farm workers  the | Read More »

California Moving to Strip Secret Ballots from Farm Workers, Fine Employers

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 28th at 10:00 AM  | 

With the hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act “basically dead” for now, union bosses are still finding ways to try to fill their coffers with new members any way they can. At the state level, since agricultural workers are excluded from the National Labor Relations Act, the United Farm Workers is using the farm worker exemption to its advantage—and counting on newly-elected Democrat Governor Jerry Brown | Read More »

Rep. John Kline & the Secret Ballot Protection Act

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 10th at 03:30 PM  | 

Congressman John Kline [R-MN] has been one of the House of Representatives’ most vocal opponents of SEIU’s labor board appointee, Craig Becker, as well as a vocal defender of workers’ right to choose by secret-ballot whether or not to become unionized. In that role, he has stood strong against union bosses as they have worked to strip workers right to a secret-ballot through passage of | Read More »

Arizona’s Arpaio Faces Off Against AFL-CIO’s Alinskyite Acuff

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 12th at 12:33 AM  | 

An interesting exchange occurred on Fox News between Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the AFL-CIO’s Stewart Acuff over the AFL-CIO’s call to end federal funding for training Arizona law enforcement agencies. Acuff has been and continues to be the mouthpiece for the AFL-CIO (a federation of 56 national unions) on a variety of issues, from the nationalization of health care to the job-destroying | Read More »

No-Vote Unionization: Union bosses and Dems want it resurrected…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  June 15th at 12:39 PM  | 

With the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board doing labor’s bidding these days, one would think union bosses and their Democrat minions would forget about pushing the job-destroying and hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act. But apparently that is not the case. As the Union of Ailing Workplaces United Auto Workers (UAW) meets in Detroit this week to install a new king (Bob King, that is), they | Read More »

SEIU’s New Burger Queen? Internal Documents Expose Plan to Unionize Fast-Food Industry

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  May 14th at 03:20 PM  | 

If you’d like to see how a union plans to exploit and target workers if the hallucinogencially-named Employee Free Choice Act (aka “card-check”) is passed, read this post. Last weekend, we reported on what appeared to be a new union battle that the SEIU was going to wage by invading the UFCW’s turf and attempting to unionize grocery workers.  The foundation of this was an interview | Read More »

The Employee Free Choice Act: ‘When there’s no more room in hell…’

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 29th at 12:08 AM  | 

The hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act is a bill that, like George Romero’s flesh-eating zombies, just refuses to die. As the DC rumor-mill has it, EFCA proponents realize that taking away the secret-ballot isn’t too popular and is hurting their hopes for EFCA’s passage.  However, the other main component of the job-destroying bill is equally dangerous for employers and their employees: Binding arbitration. What is | Read More »

Collective Sacrifice: Why would unions want to destroy millions of jobs?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 26th at 10:55 PM  | 

For the past five years, our efforts have been to awaken the American people to the devastating consequences of a job-destroying bill misleadingly named the Employee Free Choice Act (or EFCA, for short). As the bill that just won’t quite die a deserved ignominious death, unions and their Democrat pols know that 2010 might be the last time they have an even slim chance for bringing it | Read More »

Shock! Not all unions like card-check

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 18th at 09:34 PM  | 

It’s been a fight that has been raging for five years or more: Should workers have the right to decide whether or not to become unionized through a secret-ballot vote, or through signing a union card in front of their peers in a process known as card-check? Unions have spend an estimated $1.4 billion on getting politicians elected in 2006 and 2008 who have pledged | Read More »