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…

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Ironic: Teamsters Called For Secret-Ballot At Hostess While Pushing To Eliminate Secret-Ballots

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 18th at 10:00 AM  | 

Oddly enough, with 6700 members jobs at stake, the Teamsters rightfully recommended a secret-ballot vote be taken among striking bakers’ union members.

However, while pushing a secret ballot when it served the Teamsters’ interest, the union bosses within the Teamsters’ Marble Palace want to deny everyday Americans their right to vote on unionization via secret ballot.

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Union-Controlled NLRB’s Top Attorney In Hot Water Over Ethics

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 18th at 11:30 AM  | 

The man who targeted Boeing last year for opening a non-union plant in South Carolina, sued Arizona (and threatened other states) for protecting their citizens’ right to secret-ballot elections, as well as generally done union bosses’ bidding over the last two years is in hot water over a breach of ethics. Lafe Solomon, the Acting General Counsel (he’s never been confirmed by the Senate) of | Read More »

NLRB To Union-Busting Teamsters: Stop Harassing Organizers For Wanting Their Own Union

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 6th at 08:45 AM  | 

Union bosses who pretend they’re fighters for the working class often are accused by their own employees of committing the same sins that they accuse employers of doing. Very often, when push comes to shove, union bosses become the worst kind of union busters there are–because they should know better. Take, for example, the Teamsters who, back in 2009, threatened to operate their union business | Read More »

‘It’s Time To Close The NLRB For Renovations’

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 27th at 06:30 PM  | 

According to The Hill, unions and their Democrats in Congress are apoplectic over the fact that Brian Hayes, the lone Republican on Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board, has (allegedly) threatened to resign in protest over the union appointees at the NLRB deciding on Wednesday (Nov. 30th) to force ambush elections on companies and their employees. Due to a Supreme Court decision, where the high court ruled | Read More »

Unionized Clerical Workers Fight UAW Greed…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 14th at 07:00 PM  | 

Their employer has nearly $1 billion in the bank, owns a golf resort, and is a major shareholder of not one but two U.S. auto companies. Given that, one would think their employer wouldn’t treat its employees like the very corporations their bosses often do battle with. However, since 2009, the union workers have been subjected to cut backs and are now facing even more layoffs. | Read More »

Wisconsin Union Hypocrisy: WEAC Accused of Breaking Staff Union Contract

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 14th at 12:00 PM  | 

Pot, meet Kettle. While it occupied Wisconsin’s state capitol, the union that represents many of Wisconsin’s public school teachers, WEAC, demonized governor Scott Walker’s government union reform as an attack on collective bargaining. Yet, when WEAC found itself no longer able to forcibly collect union dues without state help, with its forced funding being diminished, WEAC decided to lay off 40%of its staff. Now, in | Read More »

Another Fine Example of Union Hypocrisy

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 22nd at 12:00 AM  | 

You know that old adage about throwing stones and living in glass houses, right?  Well, when it comes to hypocritical moments, today’s union bosses sometimes just outdo themselves in ways that leave you just shaking your head in astonishment. Take, for example, the United Food & Commercial Workers union (UFCW).  Even if you’ve never heard of the UFCW, you’re probably familiar with their work.  You | Read More »

Opposing unions means you go to hell?…Really?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  May 17th at 02:00 PM  | 

Promoted from diaries by Bill S. You know the old saying about religion and politics? Well, sometimes the twain do meet… Never mind that today’s unions rake in roughly thirteen billion dollars a year from workers (the majority of whom are forced to pay the union or be fired from their jobs); and never mind the history of violence and union corruption; and never mind the desire | Read More »