Big news yesterday: The former queen of labor, SEIU’s Anna Burger is ‘retiring’ after being rejected a few months ago as Andy Stern’s hand-picked successor. Though we predicted this in May, her departure did seem to take longer than expected. [It could be she had to take the time to help Mary Kay Henry understand the intricate spiderweb of SEIU finances, lawsuits, and intrigues.] Public | Read More »
Dan Benishek is a Republican candidate in Michigan. He is fighting to unseat a union-lackey that just happens to have an R after his name. This same lackey helped give the SEIU control of 40,000 home health care workers, with many of them not knowing that a political side deal was cut. The SEIU rakes in $6 million a year in dues from these workers, | Read More »
On the day that President Barack Obama signed the nationalization of America’s health care into law, Service Employees International Union’s then-president Andy Stern shot a gushing video to his membership thanking the SEIU membership for “changing America forever.” Since that day, Andy Stern has ‘retired’ from the SEIU, taken a position on the Board of Directors of SIGA Technologies, as well as still sits at | Read More »
Maybe Andy Stern’s sudden resignation from the Service Employees International Union wasn’t so sudden after all?… SIGA Technologies, Inc. (SIGA 6.76, -0.04, -0.59%) , a company specializing in the development of pharmaceutical agents to combat bio-warfare pathogens, announced today that Andy Stern, labor leader and prominent advocate for reform, joined SIGA’s board of directors. Mr. Stern is the former president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), | Read More »
You know when time are bad for socialists Democrats when one of their own becomes a capitalist lobbyist for a corporation fighting the SEIU*… Former House Dem leader Gephardt hired as lobbyist by firm battling SEIU Former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) has been hired to lobby for a major food-services company that has faced criticism from a powerful union. Gephardt and Tom O’Donnell, | Read More »
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is already reaping the rewards of having its Associate General Counsel Craig Becker sitting on the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). On June 3rd, the union-controlled NLRB issued a 2-1 decision denying a request for review (a form of appeal) by St. Barnabas Hospital regarding the unionization of its resident physicians. The two board members were former-Teamster attorney | Read More »
As the AFL-CIO targets America’s youth this week, it’s long been known that America’s institutions of higher learning have been hijacked by the left. While the common belief is that America’s colleges and universities have succumbed to ideologues, the sad irony is that the “ideologues” may also be closet capitalists without their even realizing it. A friend forwarded Liberty Chick’s post on Big Journalism and, | Read More »
Union bosses suffered a seeming setback on Tuesday as Arkansas voters rejected the union attempt to make an example out of Blanche Lincoln. But the setback is not all that it seems. The Black Sheep Survives the Slaughterhouse From the beginning, Tuesday’s Arkansas Showdown was really more about the national Democratic Party and who owns it than it was about Blanche Lincoln. Blanche Lincoln was | Read More »
Earlier this week, we pointed out SEIU-attorney-turned-NLRB-member Craig Becker’s seeming violation of his ethics pledge by ruling on a case involving the SEIU, in breach of the two year moratorium. A mere five days later, in another case (ironically involving the SEIU again), Becker takes the chance to address his critics with thumb planted firmly on nose. Becker states that the reason he is (and, | Read More »
Last week, we called attention to the SEIU’s new “travel hotline” advising travelers in seemingly racist undertones. Now, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly takes the purple people eater to task: Given the SEIU’s recent racial play in the Arkansas runoff, it appears there is a troubling pattern emerging out of the house that Andy Stern built. __________________ “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language | Read More »
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