Obama’s NLRB Nominees Get Support From The Usual Suspects…And A Few Unlikely Ones Too

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | May 29th at 03:30 PM |

The Obama Administration, Senate Democrats and their union handlers must be concerned about the Supreme Court’s hearing the issue of Obama’s “recess” appointments at the National Labor Relations Board.

Frankly, based on the amount of disingenuous hyperbole being generated by left-wing union bosses and their cohorts, it appears Obama & Co. may have a loser on their hands after a second appeals court struck down Obama’s “recess” appointments at the NLRB.

Left Blames NLRB Delays For Teamster Rep Losing Home Without Asking: Where Was His Union?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | May 23rd at 08:30 PM |

As opposed to helping their own union representative keep his home, union bosses and their lapdogs on the Left are more inclined to make someone like Marcus Hedger into a poster child to push their political puppets into action.

Meet the Partisan Union Behind The Partisan Internal Revenue Service

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | May 16th at 10:30 PM |

On Thursday, despite the escalating scandal, Barack Obama told reporters that he did not see the need for a special prosecutor, saying “probes by Congress and the Justice Department should be able to figure out who was responsible for improperly targeting tea party groups when they applied for tax-exempt status.”

While that may appease reporters from CNN and the mainstream media for the moment, one must wonder why there shouldn’t be a special prosecutor to look into the wrongdoings of an agency with such vast powers over the American populace. Unless, of course, there is a smoking gun that people within the administration don’t want discovered.

Union Bosses Should Imagine A World Without Obama’s NLRB

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 6th at 11:00 AM |

“If the workers surrender control over working relations to legislative and administrative agents, they put their industrial liberty at the disposal of state agents.”
Samuel Gompers,
President of the American Federation of Labor, 1915

A Camel’s Straw: Harry Kelber, ‘Radical’ Labor Activist, Dies At 98

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 5th at 12:30 AM |

RedState may seem like an odd place to write about the death of a union activist. However, the recent passing of Harry Kelber, a long-time labor activist, struck a personal chord with me.

You see, it was 20 years ago that Harry Kelber became one more straw that broke the camel’s back and, ultimately, helped change the course of my life.

Calculating The ‘Prevailing Wage’ Costs Of A Bad Immigration Compromise

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 1st at 05:30 PM |

On Friday, AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka and U.S. Chamber head Thomas Donahue reached a “compromise” that would allow up to 200,000 immigrant workers (the numbers dependent on the industry) work visas, so long as a government-imposed wage rate is applied.

Aside from the basic problem of the government dictating artificially high wage (and benefit) rates–known as prevailing wages–the problem is that most do not know what constitutes a “prevailing wage rate.”

The Slipperiest of Slopes: Immigration ‘Compromise,’ A Really Bad Deal In Any Economy

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 30th at 07:42 PM |

Although details are still somewhat sketchy at this point, based on press reports, it appears that AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce head Thomas Donahue reached a deal Friday night on immigration reform.

If, by what is being reported, the deal reached on low-wage immigrants is true, the impact on the private sector–and, thus, the economy–may be profoundly and negatively impacted for years to come as the deal reportedly establishes premium wage prices for those employers who traditionally employ low-wage immigrants.

Union Briefs for March 28, 2013: SSDD–Teamsters Strike, UAW Hypocrites & Teachers Union Boss Lies

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 28th at 08:00 PM |

UAW United Against Its Workers?

“In an unusual case where the United Auto Workers union is bargaining as an employer, about 74 workers at the UAW-General Motors Center for Human Resources rejected the union’s latest contract proposal….

The employees have been working under the terms of their previous deal, which expired March 31, 2012, after rejecting the latest proposal Tuesday by a vote of 58 to 4.”

It’s Thursday, and these are your Union Briefs…

Immigration Reform: Are Obama & AFL-CIO Bosses Using ‘Poison Pills’ To Kill Latinos’ Dreams Again?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 26th at 06:30 PM |

While many immigrants–legal and illegal–are pinning their hopes on Washington politicians enacting some sort of bipartisan immigration reform legislation, recent actions by the AFL-CIO and Barak Obama’s surrogates, the Democrats in the Senate, in three areas signal that there may be more interest in keeping the political problem out there for Democrats and unions to cynically and calculatingly use for the next several election cycles.

Union Briefs for Mon., March 24, 2013: AFL-CIO Boss Wants Immigration Reform to Include Workers’ Families?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 25th at 06:30 AM |

With the immigration debate front and center, union bosses are on the march to get as broad an immigration measure as possible in any deal that politicians come up with–including, apparently, a pathway for any new immigrants to bring their families too.

Of course, eight million “new progressive voters” (and their dues) is incentive enough any union boss to be excited.

It’s Monday, March 25, 2013 and these are your Union Briefs…

Union Briefs for Thurs., March 14, 2013: The Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 14th at 06:30 AM |

When Barack Obama did the bidding of his union bosses by unilaterally declaring the Senate in recess and appointing three members to his National Labor Relations Board, he probably did not realize the fall out to his actions–or perhaps he did.

Union Briefs for Wed., March 13, 2013: SCOTUS to hear constitutionality of Obama’s NLRB…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 13th at 06:30 AM |

Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board will soon be getting its day at the high court. Meanwhile, the CWA is giving Rand Paul accolades…sort of.

Union Briefs for Wed., March 6, 2013: Occupiers, Protesters & Cannibals! Oh my!

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 6th at 06:30 AM |

“The Congress that passed the Wagner Act of 1935 contemplated a board of “impartial government employees. That was before Big Labor selected the political process to stem its decline and the Democratic Party as its vehicle of choice. “Now, in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations, Big Labor demands appointees to the NLRB serve its interests.

None have done so in a more partisan, less compromising, more militant fashion than the members of the Obama board. “

Union Briefs for Tues., March 5, 2013: Unions & your tax dollars

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 5th at 12:01 AM |

LUR Union Briefs - Government Unions Addition

Unlike the unions featured, today’s edition of Union Briefs is not directly or indirectly subsidized through your tax dollars.

Union Briefs for Monday, March 4, 2013: Unions in ‘crisis’ edition

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 3rd at 11:30 PM |

Between Barack Obama’s unconstitutionally ‘recess’-appointed National Labor Relations Board and unions talking about their most current crisis, there’s been a lot occurring on the labor front these days. So, just to keep you informed, here’s a compilation of what’s out there.