Teamsters’ Vegas Convention Calls for CEO Prosecutions & Union Pension Bailout

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 4th at 08:00 PM  | 

Despite the bribery scandals, the dancers, and the jokes about the millions of their members’ dues that Teamster bosses spent in Las Vegas last week at the union’s 28th international convention, delegates did accomplish one thing of note: The delegates passed a resolution that, among other things, calls for a “financial rescue package for struggling union pensions” (also known as the $165 billion union pension bailout). Following last | Read More »

Criminalizing Conversation: Unions using the Department of Labor to chill employer speech

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 10th at 07:00 AM  | 

This may be a bit wonky, but if you are a union-free, private-sector employer with two or more employees, there’s something sinister coming down the pike from Washington that you’ll probably want to know about. Any day now, the union-controlled Department of Labor will be issuing new rules interpreting a little-known 1959 law called the Landrum-Griffin Act (officially, the Labor-Management Reporting & Disclosure Act). A | Read More »