According to The Hill, unions and their Democrats in Congress are apoplectic over the fact that Brian Hayes, the lone Republican on Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board, has (allegedly) threatened to resign in protest over the union appointees at the NLRB deciding on Wednesday (Nov. 30th) to force ambush elections on companies and their employees. Due to a Supreme Court decision, where the high court ruled | Read More »
Their employer has nearly $1 billion in the bank, owns a golf resort, and is a major shareholder of not one but two U.S. auto companies. Given that, one would think their employer wouldn’t treat its employees like the very corporations their bosses often do battle with. However, since 2009, the union workers have been subjected to cut backs and are now facing even more layoffs. | Read More »
Pot, meet Kettle. While it occupied Wisconsin’s state capitol, the union that represents many of Wisconsin’s public school teachers, WEAC, demonized governor Scott Walker’s government union reform as an attack on collective bargaining. Yet, when WEAC found itself no longer able to forcibly collect union dues without state help, with its forced funding being diminished, WEAC decided to lay off 40%of its staff. Now, in | Read More »
You know that old adage about throwing stones and living in glass houses, right? Well, when it comes to hypocritical moments, today’s union bosses sometimes just outdo themselves in ways that leave you just shaking your head in astonishment. Take, for example, the United Food & Commercial Workers union (UFCW). Even if you’ve never heard of the UFCW, you’re probably familiar with their work. You | Read More »
It’s truly fascinating and not the least bit ironic when union bosses treat their own workers as bad or worse than the employers they attack. As union bosses clamor for enactment of so-called “card check,” (otherwise known as Employee Free Choice Act), it seems that when confronted with union issues among their own employees, they act every bit as barbaric as the robber barons of | Read More »
Promoted from diaries by Bill S. You know the old saying about religion and politics? Well, sometimes the twain do meet… Never mind that today’s unions rake in roughly thirteen billion dollars a year from workers (the majority of whom are forced to pay the union or be fired from their jobs); and never mind the history of violence and union corruption; and never mind the desire | Read More »
With unions, they just go together like hand and glove: Strikes and unions, that is. A unionized workforce negotiates with management. Management gives the union workers a lousy offer and the union workers strike. It happens more often than most union bosses would care to admit. And they really would rather you not know about this. The United Food & Commercial Workers is a 1.3 million-member | Read More »
“An injury to one is an injury to all…?” “United we bargain, divided we beg…?” “Solidarity…?” Apparently, none of those age-old union adages apply in today’s collectivist union movement. Collectivist unions are supposed to be of single mind, single body. A sort of “all for one, one for all,” “you go, we go” selfless and self-sacrifing collection of union brothers and sisters. Afterall, that is what a | Read More »
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