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 »

The Union Tax: How Unions Kill Jobs

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 5th at 10:00 AM  | 

The Labor Day holiday is always a time for union bosses and the media to reflect on the role that unions play in society. Not surprisingly, with a mere 11.9% of America’s workers unionized today (6.9% in the private sector), between the unionized media and press releases issued by union communications departments, the majority of stories about Labor Day center on what used to be or | Read More »