Eating Their Own: Teamsters Acting Like ‘Parasite’ Stealing Other Unions’ Members

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | May 12th at 09:15 PM |

Wars between rival unions, though infrequent, go back more than a century. Now, as union membership continues its decades-long decline, union efforts to pilfer members from other unions seem to be making a comeback.

At the head of the pack is the infamous International Brotherhood of Teamsters. With efforts underway to lure workers at both US Airways and American Airlines away from their existing unions, the Teamsters are, once again, creating enemies in the union movement.

Obama Cynically Ups The Ante With Newest Nominations To His Illegitimate NLRB

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 11th at 06:30 PM |

Obama’s NLRB nominations this week are nothing more than a political ploy–aimed at setting up Senate Republicans. As a result, it would be foolish for Republicans to jump on some backroom, deal-making bandwagon.

Obama’s ‘recess’ appointments were found to be unconstitutional. He undermined his own claim that they were constitutional by immediately re-nominating them. Therefore, Republicans should let the Supreme Court decide on the Block and Griffin appointments, since a three-to-two union majority does nothing at all to change the radical nature of the NLRB.

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…

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…

Union Hypocrisy: AFL-CIO Conveniently Ignores The Union-Related Inferno That Killed 97 People

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 27th at 07:00 AM |

For all their bantering about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire being symbolic of “labor’s martyred heroes” (even though no union was involved) we are reminded that, for today’s union bosses and their allies on the Left to ignore the deaths of 97 others caused by union militants speaks volumes about the hypocrisy and shallow callousness embodied by today’s Left.

Union Briefs for Thurs., March 21, 2013: Teamsters’ time bomb to cost taxpayers billions

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 21st at 06:30 AM |

The underfunding problem of union multi-employer pension plans continues. With as much as $369 billion in the hole, union pensions have become a ticking time bomb for both employers as well as present and future retirees.

Ultimately, the American taxpayers may be asked, as they were in 2008, to bailout unions’ underfunded pension plans.

It’s Thursday, March 21, and these are your Union Briefs…

Union Briefs for Fri., March 15, 2013: Obama’s Purported Labor Dept. Pick Is A Lying Racist…?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 15th at 06:30 AM |

There’s brouhaha erupting over Barack Obama’s rumored pick to replace Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.

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 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.

Michigan Teamster Boss Busted Over Double Dipping

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | February 6th at 10:00 PM |

Taking unemployment while drawing a Teamster salary is probably taboo from a PR standpoint for any union.

Union Hypocrisy: Local Teamsters Bosses Try Union Busting On Their Office Workers Seeking A Union

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | January 9th at 06:00 PM |

Why is the Teamsters union spending thousands of dollars on hiring lawyers to fight unionization of their own workers? Couldn’t the Teamster bosses just practiced what they preached and voluntarily recognized the Steelworkers and bargain a…you know…fair contract?

Dog Bites Man. Man Bites Back: The UAW’s King made Michigan’s Right-To-Work bed.

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | December 13th at 10:00 PM |

As union bosses–like Teamsters’ boss Jimmy P. Hoffa–begin to see their financial coffers dwindle next year, they shouldn’t blame Republicans for Michigan’s “civil war.”

It was the UAW’s Bob King who fired the first shot.

Unions Get Ugly As Michigan Now Set To Become 24th Right-to-Work State In Nation

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | December 6th at 10:15 PM |

By all appearances, however, Obama’s weighing into Michigan’s Right-to-Work brief battle will likely be too little too late as Michigan Republicans seem to have borrowed from Obama’s own take-no-prisoners playbook and passed the bill quickly.

Let Them Eat Cake: As Hostess Workers Get Hurt, Bakery Union Bosses (& Their Kids) Do Well

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | November 21st at 09:00 AM |

Eighteen thousand Americans are now without jobs to put bread on their tables (pun intended). Yet, Frank Hurt will not be hurt in the least by the strike he led his members into taking, or the resulting unemployment of both his members, as well as other Hostess employees.