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

Union Briefs for Wed., March 27, 2013: SEIU’s Immigration Ad Buy, Teamsters vs. UPS & More…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 27th at 12:00 PM |

After spending millions on Barack Obama’s re-election, the SEIU is now ramping up its campaign to see immigration reform passed. The problem? Three hundred thousand seems like a paltry amount to spend on a campaign of such importance to unions.

It’s Wednesday, March 27th, and here 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 Tues., March 19, 2013: Teachers Picket Homes, AFSCME vs Taxpayers & More…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 19th at 06:30 AM |

Ohio teachers, on strike for a week now, get some help from their Marxist allies; more details emerge about AFSCME’s new contract with Illinois; and Massachusetts’ newest liberal senator, Elizabeth Warren, leads a witness pitching the case for a minimum wage hike–to $22 per hour.

These are a few of the stories in today’s Union Briefs…

Union Briefs for Monday, March 18, 2013: VW & UAW conspiring to unionize Chattanooga plant?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 18th at 09:30 AM |

In these United States, for the most part and despite union attempts to to the contrary*, workers still have the right to choose whether or not to be unionized.

However, in 2010, when Obama’s NLRB legitimized sweetheart unions and gave unions the ability to engage in behind-the-scenes negotiations with employers–even when they do not represent said employers’ employees–the NLRB set the stage to give unscrupulous unions access to unionize workers through the back-door..

Union Hypocrisy On Display: SEIU’s Union Staff Votes To Strike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 17th at 12:05 PM |

There’s nothing more embarrassing for union bosses than their own unionized staff striking against them or, in this case, threatening to strike.

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 Tues., March 12, 2013: Unions pushing card check at Hyatt…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 12th at 06:30 AM |

Penny Pritzker‘s Hyatt Hotels are being attacked for not succumbing to union demands to eliminate workers’ right to secret-ballot elections, Illinois settles a pension problem (sort of), and the SEIU is in Day Two of its strike at the University of Illinois.

It’s Tuesday, March 11, 2013, and here are your Union Briefs:

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…

Union Briefs for Friday, March 8, 2013: Government union flea bytes…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 8th at 06:30 AM |

From unions forcing workers to pay for politics and applauding ObamaCare, to getting a better deal from the taxpayers than the taxpayers get themselves, it’s Friday and here are your Union Briefs…

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.

Circle The Wagons: The Left Goes Gunning For Texas

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 4th at 10:30 PM |

There are some Texans who may think that what happened in Colorado–and is currently happening in North Carolina and Virginia–cannot happen in Texas.

Dear Lotus King: I’ll see your minimum wage increase and raise you…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | February 17th at 12:00 AM |

Though he may not consider himself an emperor (at least not yet), this last Tuesday, I came to the decisive conclusion that Barack Obama is King of the Lotus Eaters.