Lessons in Alinsky: An AFL-CIO Conference Teaches Targeting & Manipulating Workers

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 5th at 08:30 AM  | 

This past weekend, the AFL-CIO played host to “more than 800 young people” at a conference in Minneapolis in an effort energize young activists to go forth and multiply the members by targeting America’s youth. As noted last week, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis attended the organizing “summit” and the labor secretary used some of her 30-minute speech to call for passage of the AFL-CIO’s | Read More »

Rated ‘M’ (for Mature Audiences only): The Teamsters, the Tart & a Pocketful of Meth

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 4th at 09:13 AM  | 

This sordid story is rated ‘M’ (for mature audiences only): A longtime Teamsters union member who drives a vehicle on the “Lost” television production here pleaded guilty last week to a felony drug possession offense as well as to a misdemeanor charge of soliciting sex from an undercover police officer. Unfortunately, it only gets better worse from there… Reynold Kamekona, 53, was arrested the evening of | Read More »