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…

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Union Briefs for Mon., March 11, 2013: SEIU celebrates & honors “our comrade” Hugo Chavez…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 11th at 06:30 AM  | 

The SEIU has declared a strike in Illinois while, in Manhattan, celebrating and honoring Hugo Chavez; AFSCME punches back at Mother Jones; a teachers union urges members to collect school committee members’ personal information; and, AFL-CIO boss Trumka wishes things were different…

Here are your union briefs for March 11, 2013…

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Do Machinists Union Members Know Dues Are Used To Fund Charity President’s Salary?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 7th at 12:30 AM  | 

While giving to a charity is laudable and the Puget Sound members should be lauded for their voluntary giving to the Guide Dogs of America. Do they actually know their dues are also used to fund the salary of the charity’s president as well?

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With Obama Endorsement, Machinists’ Union Bosses Declare Love For Janus…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 27th at 11:00 AM  | 

Well, it only took four years for Machinists’ union boss Tom Buffenbarger to warm up to Barack Obama, whom the union boss once compared to Janus, the two-faced Roman god. On Friday, as it reluctantly dutifully did four years ago, the International Association of Machinists endorsed Barack Obama and his bid for a second term. In so doing, the Machinists’ union again joins the ranks | Read More »

Union Retaliated Against Boeing’s South Carolina Employees, NLRB Charge Alleges

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 29th at 08:00 AM  | 

Having posted extensively on the Machinists’ union smokescreen at Boeing, there is some sense of satisfaction in knowing that Boeing’s union-free employees in South Carolina are not letting the union get away with retaliating against them for choosing to be union-free. Indeed, were it not for the fact that the once-unionized Boeing employees in South Carolina kicked the Machinists union out of their workplace, the | Read More »

Is the Machinists’ “Smoking Gun” Merely A Smoke Screen To Cover Its Own Actions?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 25th at 10:00 AM  | 

Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest through the trees. Such seems to be the case of the media’s reporting on the matter of the union appointees at President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board and their prosecution of Boeing. This latest example of the media being blinded is the alleged ‘smoking gun‘ that was reported on Friday. However, if the media were to actually | Read More »

Sore Union Losers at Delta Air Lines

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 26th at 04:30 PM  | 

There’s big money at stake for unions at Delta Air Lines, Inc—over $22 million in annual union dues. As the only (primarily) union-free major airline (Delta’s pilots are unionized), unions have long targeted the Atlanta-based carrier.  However, now, with the National Mediation Board members being controlled by unions*, as well as Delta’s recent merger with unionized Northwest Airlines, the unions have declared it open hunting | Read More »

They Did It Again! When Unions End Up Representing Replacement Workers

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 13th at 08:00 AM  | 

In February 1995, having the occasion to visit a picket line in Virginia where union members had been on strike for 11 months, was an enlightening experience. Having only left the union movement a few years earlier, it was that strike in Virginia where my belief that today’s unions are but a facade—union in name only—was confirmed. In that small Virginia town, union members had gone | Read More »