Verizon Offers $50,000 Reward After Sabotage On Day Two Of Militant Union Strike
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | August 8th at 10:30 PM |
It’s been less than 24 hours since the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) called 45,000 of their respective members out on strike against Verizon and, already, there are reports of sabotage of Verizon equipment, as well as illegal picketing. According to a Verizon press release on Monday, there has been: Ten incidents of fiber-optic lines being deliberately cut | Read More »
As 45,000 Union Workers Strike Verizon, Union Protesters Bring Rat To CEO’s House
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | August 7th at 07:00 PM |
On Sunday, 45,000 union workers represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) went out on strike against the giant telecom. The strikers work in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions and handle the wireline side of Verizon’s business. [The strike does not affect Verizon Wireless, which is predominantly union-free.] According to a press release issued by the | Read More »
Uh Oh! The Progressives Have Figured Out How The Tea Parties Took Over the GOP…
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | August 4th at 11:00 PM |
Wow! It’s really flattering that radio talk-show host Thom Hartmann is attributing the Concord Project with the Tea Party taking over the GOP. The fact is, though, the GOP is still filled with those who would compromise the Constitution and bankrupt our country. Taking over the GOP has barely begun and, more importantly, the Tea Party (and other conservative activists) taking over the GOP involves | Read More »
Let Them Eat Cake! DNC Blows Off Unions For Obama’s 50th Birthday Bash!
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | August 3rd at 04:00 PM |
A day after President Obama held an “urgent” meeting with AFL-CIO bosses in the White House, the Democrat National Committee is hosting a huge birthday bash for Obama’s 50th birthday tonight in Chicago. The only problem is, DNC organizers apparently chose not to use union labor for the event. While no one was in at Chicago’s IATSE local to confirm or deny whether IATSE members | Read More »
Is the NLRB biased? You be the judge…
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | August 2nd at 09:00 AM |
Since the union appointees at the National Labor Relations Board have taken control, there has been a common complaint emerge from those NLRB watchers in the labor relations community that the Obama NLRB has taken a decidedly pro-union/anti-employer position. Unions and their apologists, however, dispute this. Well, if one questions whether or not the Obama NLRB is biased, one need only to look at the | Read More »
Axis of Evil?* NJ Government Unions Unite Against Chris Christie and Taxpayers
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | August 2nd at 07:30 AM |
In New Jersey, where the last Democrat governor (while he was a US Senator) had a girlfriend who just happened to be the head of New Jersey’s largest government union, where the property taxes are the highest in the nation, and where the state faces a $10+ billion budget gap and the real debt may be as high as $176 billion, government union bosses have | Read More »
Ex-Union Member Fights $200,000 Union Fine For Working Non-Union
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | July 31st at 09:00 AM |
Unions have rules. Union members who break those rules can be placed on trial by their union and, if found guilty, can be expelled or suspended from the union. They can also be fined, as Nathaniel Musser has learned the expensive way. Musser, a former member of the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters, according to his lawyer, could not find work through his union. So, as union | Read More »
What a Shocker! Unions Are Behind Scaring Californians From Signing Ballot Petitions
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | July 30th at 04:30 PM |
[This is an update to Friday's post.] On Friday, attention was drawn to a radio ad and new website that popped up by a group calling itself “Californians Against Identity Theft.” While its backers were not immediately identified (nothing on the website indicates who is behind the site), it didn’t take long to discover that, lo and behold, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of | Read More »
Who Is Scaring Californians Away From Signing Petitions For Ballot Initiatives?
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | July 29th at 06:00 PM |
Let’s start with this screenshot of a new website launched by a yet-unidentified group that is calling itself “Californians Against Identity Theft.” Apparently, the sole purpose of this group is to scare Californians away from signing petitions to put ballot measures on California’s November 2011 and 2012 ballots. According to Capitol Alert, whoever is behind the scary site (and a radio ad) doesn’t appear to | Read More »
AFSCME’s War on Workers & Taxpayers: A Look Inside The AFSCME Playbook
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | July 26th at 08:00 AM |
Last year, when Larry Scanlon, the Director of Political Operations for one of the nation’s largest government unions, the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), stated “the more members coming in, the more dues coming in, the more money we have for politics,” it was symbolic of a system corrupted by union bosses who enrich themselves at the expense of America’s taxpayers. | Read More »
Union Threats & Mob Actions Shut Down $200 Million Washington Port Indefinitely
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | July 24th at 10:00 AM |
A few days ago, it was noted how union tensions were escalating in the port town of Longview, Washington as members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have been protesting the opening of a $200 million grain terminal without using ILWU labor for its roughly 50 jobs. On July 11th, around 100 ILWU protesters were arrested when they tore down a chain link fence and, a | Read More »
Obama Calls For Bi-Partisanship As OFA Barnstorms Wisconsin On GOP Recalls
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | July 23rd at 02:00 PM |
On its main page this weekend, the Obama campaign website, barackobama.com, is featuring a video of the President calling for a bi-partisan approach to spending and taxing our way into bankruptcy. What is so disingenuous about the President’s call for bi-partisanship is the fact that the Community Organizer in Chief’s website is littered with activities to help angry government union bosses and their Marxist allies turn | Read More »
Obama’s Billionairess Union-Busting Buddy Turns Heat On Strikers! [Updated]
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | July 22nd at 11:30 AM |
Assuming she has outside advisers advising her, Barack Obama’s Money Maven, Penny Pritzker, is exactly the type of individual Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will likely be targeting when the Department of Labor pushes through its new rules targeting “anti-union” employers In fact, it is rather odd that Ms. Pritzker’s anti-unionism hasn’t had a light shined on it by the union appointees at the National Labor Relations Board. Perhaps | Read More »
Big Easy Union Boss: South is Anti-Union Because of “Plantation Mentality”
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | July 20th at 02:03 PM |
It it is worth noting that Clay Leon is the Financial Secretary/Business Manager of IBEW, Local 130 in Lousiana. According to the IBEW’s reports with the Department of Labor, Mr. Leon’s members pay Mr. Leon and his fellow union bosses between $30 and $38 per month in regular union dues and between 2% and 4% in working dues. [Yes, members actually pay more dues when | Read More »
Tensions Escalate in Washington Port Union Battle Over Jobs
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | July 20th at 12:00 PM |
To say that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union is a militant union would be something of an understatement. Following the deadly 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike (of which the ILWU still commemorates ‘Bloody Thursday‘), the longshoremen’s union (originally part of the International Longshoremen’s Association) has controlled the West Coast ports for nearly 80 years and its militancy continues to this day. In Washington state the ILWU | Read More »
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