Some Things Never Change: More Teamsters Arrested & Charged Under RICO

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 20th at 07:00 PM  | 

Earlier this week, arrests were made and RICO charges filed against four Boston-area Teamsters for “committing multiple acts of extortion and racketeering among other crimes.” While news of a 30-count indictment always generates a fair amount of buzz, the fact is, regardless how much money the Teamsters spend on Democrat politicians, corruption is still alive and well within Hoffa’s union. In 1988, the U.S. Department | Read More »

Obama’s Stripes For Sale: OFA Sells New American Flag For $35

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 20th at 10:30 AM  | 

For those who have commented about Barack Obama’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder and his god-like attributes, here is something that will only inflame their passions further. The Democratic National Committee’s Obama for America (OFA), run by the former SEIU boss and community organizer Patrick Gaspard, is selling an artist’s rendition of the American flag—only the stars representing the 50 states have been replaced by the Obama ‘O’ | Read More »

UPDATED: Illinois High School Replaces Striking Teachers And Kids Get Educated #CTUStrike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 18th at 05:15 PM  | 

Update: Union officials agree to end Chicago teachers strike. On the outskirts of Chicago, where 400,000 Chicago kids and their parents are being held hostage and socialists seem to be calling the shots in the CTU strike, lies the city of Lake Forest, Illinois. As in Chicago, the teachers at Lake Forest High School are out on strike. However, unlike Chicago, Lake Forest High School | Read More »

Investigation Unearths Inappropriate Emails Sent From Douglas County (Colo.) School Accounts

By: Kyle Forti (Diary)  |  September 18th at 04:29 PM  | 

Teachers and administrators who work for the Douglas County (Colo.) School District (DCSD) used taxpayer-funded government e-mail accounts to illegally campaign for specific political candidates and ballot initiatives, according to e-mails obtained by Media Trackers Colorado.

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Are Socialists Now Calling the Shots In The Chicago Teachers Strike? #CTUStrike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 18th at 12:30 PM  | 

As the Chicago Teachers Union strike enters its second week of putting 400,000 Chicago kids on the streets, an interesting article in the Chicago Tribune indicates that CTU boss Karen Lewis may have lost control of her union: Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and the union’s other top brass have spent months fueling their membership’s anger through street marches, meeting sit-ins and hostile rhetoric | Read More »

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 »

Doublecross! Chicago Teachers Continue To Hold Students & Parents Hostage For Second Week #CTUStrike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 17th at 09:45 AM  | 

On Sunday, after abandoning their classrooms for the picket lines and putting 400,000 of Chicago’s schoolkids on the streets for a week, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis and her 800-member House of Delegates voted to reject a deal reached only days earlier, keeping 26,000 teachers on the streets and forcing Chicago parents to scramble with childcare issues or miss work for a second week in a | Read More »

Chicago Teachers Union Uses Kids As Pawns: Karen Lewis’ Train Wreck That Could’ve Been Avoided

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 10th at 02:30 PM  | 

Early this morning, 26,000 Chicago teachers walked out on 400,000 Chicago kids, abandoning the classroom for the picket lines. Anytime, teachers abandon school kids, it is the children and their parents who suffer the greatest–and Chicago Teachers Union knows this. As the union had been negotiating for months with the offcials in Chicago Public School system, the union could have struck anytime during the summer. | Read More »

It’s Time To Break The Machine: The Truth Behind Teachers Unions

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 6th at 02:00 PM  | 

*This post has been updated at the bottom.* From 2010 to 2011, as teachers were being laid off or having their salaries frozen due to strained (or busted) school budgets, NEA Executive Director John Wilson saw his pay increase more than $100,000–to a whopping $492,484.00 in total compensation. NEA’s President, Dennis Van Roekel wasn’t as fortunate. In 2011, he only brought raked in $460,060.00 in | 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 »

Obama’s NLRB Gets Smacked Down: District Court Rules Arizona’s Secret-Ballot Amendment Is Constitutional

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 5th at 08:07 PM  | 

You may recall back in 2010, when Barack Obama’s union-appointees at the National Labor Relations Board began showing their true union colors, voters in Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah passed secret-ballot amendments to their state constitutions as a preemptive measure to thwart the Obama Administration’s (and unions’) efforts to pass legislation calling for unionization without elections. As a result, the union-controlled NLRB threatened | Read More »

Mallory Factor on the Growing Power of Union Shadowbosses

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 10:17 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Allysen Efferson are joined by Mallory Factor. We’ll talk about his new book Shadowbosses, the amazing political clout of teacher’s unions, and how big labor is planning to grow their union strength at your expense. We’re brought to you as always byStephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like | Read More »

The Greatest Conspiracy

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 8th at 04:46 AM  | 

Please stop and read this post at Hot Air right now. Go on. I’ll wait for you to come back. It is required reading this morning. Go on . . . . . Welcome back. As you can see, it is a flat out lie that the left was outspent 7 to 1 in Wisconsin. In fact, considering the money unions spent on things like | Read More »

Gov. Scott Walker might have been right – leads Barrett by 6

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 17th at 03:00 PM  | 

It looks like Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker might have been right last month when he said would win the recall fight. Three recent polls have found Governor Walker at 50 percent and leading Democrat Tom Barrett: Marquette Law School — 50% to 44% Public Policy Polling — 50% to 45% Rasmussen — 50% to 45% According to Marquette Law School Poll Director Charles Franklin, Republicans | Read More »

The DNC, As Sly As A Foxx

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  November 8th at 07:00 AM  | 

The DNC national convention is going to Charlotte in 2012, and there is something fishy going on. To read about it, check out these articles by Ben Howe, and LaborUnionReport. Cross-Posted: TobyToons.com (Conservative Political Cartoons)