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 »

From Hope to Hopelessness: Obama’s Economy Has 88 Million “Not In Labor Force”

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 7th at 08:30 AM  | 

It was less than a year ago that Barack Obama’s senior adviser, David Plouffe said: After 2½ years in office, President Obama now “owns” the economy as an issue, according to top adviser David Plouffe, who added he was confident that voters understand that recovering from a devastating recession Mr. Obama inherited takes time. “Of course he does,” Mr. Plouffe told NBC’s “Today” show host Matt | Read More »

Obama’s Labor Department Looks To Take The ‘Family’ Out of Family Farms

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 29th at 07:00 PM  | 

Let’s establish this right out of the gate so as not to confuse issues: It is wrong when corporations use child labor. Forgetting the law for a moment, whether it is here in the U.S. or overseas, children are children, and corporations should not exploit children. Got it? With that said, this is not about corporations, this is about families and farms. More specifically, family | Read More »

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 »

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis To Headline AFL-CIO Union Organizing ‘Summit’…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 27th at 11:00 AM  | 

In yet another example the Obama Administration’s pandering to its union cronies while thumbing its nose at the other 88% of America that is union free, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will be headlining (at taxpayer expense) to an AFL-CIO “summit” later this week in Minneapolis. The subject of the conference? How to target and unionize young people (and others). Targeting younger workers has been part | Read More »

Obama’s Labor Department Blasted in Public Comments Over Dangerous ‘Persuader’ Proposal

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 26th at 11:00 AM  | 

Last week, the public comment period closed on the Obama Labor Department’s proposed regulatory change to alter a 1959 law that would make employers and their service providers (attorneys and various consultants) file financial disclosure statements and make personal information public, all in order to give union bosses hit lists of individuals and companies to target. Prior to the closing of the public comment period, | Read More »

The Unintended Consequences of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’ Witch Hunt

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 11th at 07:30 PM  | 

In less than two weeks, on September 21st, the public comment period will be closing on a Department of Labor scheme to have employers report the amount of money paid to outside vendors (namely, attorneys, PR firms, website developers, video firms, polling firms and just about every type of communications and human resource consultant) as newly-minted “persuaders.” Once the public comment closes, and because too few | Read More »

Labor Secretary parrots Pelosi: Unemployment benefits = economic stimulus

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 4th at 04:16 PM  | 

Birds of a feather flocking together? You’d almost think they’re singing the same song written by the same speech song writer. In an aol.com puff opinion piece, President Obama’s Labor Secretary Hilda Solis dropped an illogical statement about unemployment benefits: There is no better stimulus than unemployment benefits, as this money quickly flows from those who need help into local economies. .. Say what?!?  How | Read More »

Obama’s Secretary of Labor & Union Bosses Want You Tongue Tied

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  May 13th at 01:52 AM  | 

With 9.9% of America’s workers unemployed, and the United States facing Greece-like deficits, you would think that America’s leaders would focus on helping the private sector create jobs, instead of proposing rules to make it easier for unions to help cripple companies. President Obama and his union cronies wants you and your company unionized, period. As a result, Washington’s union assault on America’s job creators | Read More »

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Politicizes Office, Calls for Congress to Act on Job-Destroying EFCA

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 01:40 PM  | 

President Obama’s Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis just issued a press release this morning regarding the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Annual Union Membership Report.  While a press release from a government bureaucrat (regardless of party) wouldn’t ordinarily draw our attention, the blatant political homage paid to Solis’ old union cronies as well as the nakedly partisan call for the hallucinogencially-named Employee Free FORCED Choice Act (EFCA) is astonishing.  | Read More »