Union Bosses Applaud Obama’s Unconstitutional Appointments to Union-Controlled NLRB

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 4th at 11:30 PM  | 

On Wednesday afternoon, the current President of the United States did what may be described as an unconstitutional end run around the United States Senate by “recess appointing” three nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (as well as to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) even though the Senate is not in recess. Notwithstanding the CFPB appointment, Obama’s seating of the three NLRB appointees—two of whom are | Read More »

Teamsters’ Push For Shorter Hours May Leave Drivers Very Short On Pay

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 5th at 12:00 PM  | 

It is axiomatic—a given, if you will—that unions do not like workers to work overtime. Sure, they’ll do it, but if unions had their druthers, the work week would be limited to 40 hours—in some cases unions prefer 35 hours. The reasoning is simple, the fewer hours worked, the more employees an employer must employ and, in a workplace where unions can require dues, the | Read More »

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 »

Ticking Time Bomb: Ongoing Labor Dispute Shows the Problem With Union Pensions

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 17th at 11:35 AM  | 

In Orange, CT, there have been two arrests over the last few weeks (the most recent on Saturday afternoon) in front of Dichello Distributors, where there is an ongoing labor battle between Teamsters, Local 443 and the company. The issue is over the company’s desire to exit the Teamsters’ grossly underfunded multi-employer pension plan, as well as asking union members to pay 10% of their | Read More »

By the Dozens: Unions Stage Not-So-Massive “We Are One” Rallies

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 5th at 01:29 PM  | 

What do you do if you spend tens of thousands to plan hundreds of rallies on the same day and you get ignored? Did you see the thousands of union protesters yesterday? Surely you saw the several million workers that CWA President Larry Cohen said “were going to stop business as usual at work or after work to join vigils, community rallies or marches at | Read More »

Move Over, Chris Christie: Wisconsin’s Walker Gives Public-Sector Unions Some Tough Love

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 12th at 10:00 AM  | 

He’s been in office for less than two months, but it’s become clear that newly-elected Governor Scott Walker plans on cleaning up Wisconsin’s fiscal house and public-sector unions are not too happy. Wisconsin, according to the Sunshine Review… …[F]aces an estimated $58 million shortfall in its Medicaid budget, according to a new memo released this week by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. This comes after the | Read More »

Toxic Toys, a Dead Giraffe & the Teamsters

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 22nd at 02:15 PM  | 

So, what really killed Tweet the Giraffe? The Teamsters are ramping up their campaign aimed at taking down Toys R Us.  The union famous for its horses’ head logo and thuggish tactics is teaming up with “environmental justice organizations, consumer advocates, public health professionals, parents, children’s health activists” to use the Holiday Season to attack giant retailer Toys R Us and Babies R Us for allegedly | 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 »

The OneNation March: November’s Choices Are Clearer Than Ever

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 3rd at 01:56 AM  | 

The choices in November and beyond have never, ever been clearer… They came, they preached Marx, they trashed D.C., disrespected WWII vets (yes, those are SEIU signs), attacked Tea Parties as ‘insidious’ and ‘villainous,’ and they showed the rest of America what vile contempt they have for the Land of the Free.  By all accounts, it was a success. For they were finally able to | Read More »

Teamsters Attempt to Oust FedEx Founder & Chairman Fred Smith from Co.

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 27th at 07:30 PM  | 

They’ve been agitating for a complete redistribution of wealth and power for more than 100 years.  Now, they’re getting pretty darn close to accomplishing it. Following the AFL-CIO’s August attempt to fire Michael Dell at Dell Computers, the Teamsters have gone gunning for the founder of FedEx, Chairman Fred Smith. From the Teamsters’ press release: At FedEx Corporation’s [NYSE: FDX] annual meeting today the Teamsters’ | Read More »