No Red Tape? Non-Union FEMA Crews, Water and Other Supplies Sit Idle Thanks To Unions & Red Tape

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 12th at 02:00 PM  | 

It’s been two weeks since Hurricane Sandy killed 113 people, wiped out portions of towns, and knocked out power to millions. It has also been two weeks since Barack Obama pledged, “No bureaucracy. No red tape.” However, according to multiple public and private sources, unions and union-related red tape are causing workers from out of state to be turned back, as well as workers contracted | Read More »

BREAKING: Verizon Strikers Head Back to Work Without New Agreement

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 20th at 02:00 PM  | 

After two weeks of striking, it appears that the red shirts at the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) are heading back to work without a contract in hand. According to the CWA’s website: Members of CWA and IBEW at Verizon Communications will return to work on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at which time the contract will be back in | Read More »

Verizon’s Strikers Striking To Save Cadillac Health Plans From ObamaCare Realities

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 19th at 10:30 AM  | 

As of Thursday morning, there have been 202 incidents of sabotage since 45,000 Communications Workers of American (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) members went out on strike to preserve their Cadillac health plans. Of course, that was Thursday morning and, since the strike has been going on for about 10 days, the number of incidents caused by union unknown vandals will have | Read More »

A Primer For Union Members: How Not To Be Burned During A Union Strike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 18th at 07:30 PM  | 

Back in the day, before Darth Vader saw the light at the end of the movie and when strikes were more prevalent than they are today, there was a time when union bosses conditioned their members for the eventuality that negotiations could break down and union members might be on strike—for a long, long time. Now, with the CWA and IBEW’s 45,000 members on strike | Read More »

DEVELOPING: Ohio Business Owner Shot For Being Non-Union, Police Investigating

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 16th at 09:30 PM  | 

This is a developing story as police are still investigating the shooting of a non-union business owner, John King, by what appears to be a union assailant. With around 25 employees, John King owns one of the largest non-union electrical contracting businesses in the Toledo, Ohio area. As a non-union contractor, his business happens to be doing well at a time when unions in the | Read More »

Union picketers picket… mother of five?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 11th at 09:00 AM  | 

Who thought that this was a good idea? A Quincy mom has disconnected her support for striking Verizon workers yesterday after a group of mouthy picketers surrounded non-union repairmen and turned a phone-line fix at her home into what she is calling a “ridiculous” protest scene. “I looked in the street and there are picketers, 10 of them or more, doing a circle around the | Read More »

Verizon Strikers Using Children, Harassing & Menacing Replacement Workers [Updated]

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 9th at 11:00 PM  | 

It’s only been a few days since 45,000 CWA and IBEW members walked off their jobs at Verizon, however, incidents of harassment, sabotage, and illegal picketing have already begun to pile up. On Tuesday, Verizon obtained an injunction in Pennsylvania and filed for one in Delaware “to prevent ‘illegal’ and ‘reprehensible’ strike activities such as keeping managers out of buildings.” In one deplorable incident, a | Read More »

Verizon Offers $50,000 Reward After Sabotage On Day Two Of Militant Union Strike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 8th at 10:30 PM  | 

It’s been less than 24 hours since the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) called 45,000 of their respective members out on strike against Verizon and, already, there are reports of sabotage of Verizon equipment, as well as illegal picketing. According to a Verizon press release on Monday, there has been: Ten incidents of fiber-optic lines being deliberately cut | Read More »

As 45,000 Union Workers Strike Verizon, Union Protesters Bring Rat To CEO’s House

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 7th at 07:00 PM  | 

On Sunday, 45,000 union workers represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) went out on strike against the giant telecom. The strikers work in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions and handle the wireline side of Verizon’s business. [The strike does not affect Verizon Wireless, which is predominantly union-free.] According to a press release issued by the | Read More »

Big Easy Union Boss: South is Anti-Union Because of “Plantation Mentality”

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 20th at 02:03 PM  | 

It it is worth noting that Clay Leon is the Financial Secretary/Business Manager of IBEW, Local 130 in Lousiana. According to the IBEW’s reports with the Department of Labor, Mr. Leon’s members pay Mr. Leon and his fellow union bosses between $30 and $38 per month in regular union dues and between 2% and 4% in working dues. [Yes, members actually pay more dues when | Read More »

Eating Their Own: 600 IBEW Members Picket Carpenters’ Union Hall

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 8th at 01:15 AM  | 

Nationwide, unemployment reached 9.8% last week. However, in the construction industry, unemployment is nearly 19%. This is causing union bosses to think ‘outside the box’ on how to get work for their unemployed members–even if it includes stepping onto other unions’ turf. In April, the Carpenters’ union in St. Louis did what, in the union building trades, is the unthinkable–it set up an electrical union | Read More »