Ohio Unions to Mandate More Money From Members to Fund SB5 Campaign Fight?
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 7th at 07:15 PM |
For the last two months, we’ve heard from government unions about their so-called ‘right’ to collective bargaining. Union bosses have downplayed the fact that they’re willing to sacrifice members’ interests for union dues. In Ohio, where SB5 was recently signed into law last week, union bosses are now so desperate to keep their dues revenue stream flowing that they are now considering charging their members assessments | Read More »
CWA Members Seeing Red After Union Bosses Blow Dues Money on Themselves
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 7th at 08:00 AM |
There’s an internal war going on in one of the Communications Workers of America’s largest locals, New York City’s Local 1101. Accusations of poor, absentee leadership has caused a group of rank and file stewards and chief stewards to start a campaign to reform the local. Now, the issues have involved the CWA International in Washington, which has placed a monitor over the local due | Read More »
California’s Gov. Jerry Brown Plies GOP With Wine & Urges SEIU to Buy Lunch
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 6th at 01:30 PM |
Oh, this is funny. Well, funny, except to the few sane Californians and businesses who have not moved out yet. The once-golden state of California has devolved so much in its budgetary talks that its recycled governor, Jerry Brown has taken to plying Republican legislators with wine and food. In a telephone town hall with SEIU and state workers, Moonbeam Governor Brown divulged his secret | Read More »
E-Mails Confirm AFSCME Boss Pulled Fleeing WI Democrats’ Puppet Strings
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 5th at 03:00 PM |
Most people watching the Wisconsin fracas over the last couple of months remember when, to avoid their legislative duties, Wisconsin State Democrats fled the state. While only the blind or infirm would not have seen the fleebagggers as being sops for their union bosses that they are, today’s news re-affirms it. Not only did Wisconsin’s Democrat fleebaggers coordinate their activities with their union bosses, according | Read More »
By the Dozens: Unions Stage Not-So-Massive “We Are One” Rallies
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 5th at 01:29 PM |
What do you do if you spend tens of thousands to plan hundreds of rallies on the same day and you get ignored? Did you see the thousands of union protesters yesterday? Surely you saw the several million workers that CWA President Larry Cohen said “were going to stop business as usual at work or after work to join vigils, community rallies or marches at | Read More »
Wisconsin Union Bosses Sell Out Members to Keep Union Dues Flowing
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 5th at 09:00 AM |
For the last several weeks, we have pointed out that the union fight in Wisconsin is more about union power and union dues than the actual members. It was also noted how unions were rushing back to get contracts signed before Scott Walker’s new law took effect. Now, via Piece of Work In Progress, comes irrefutable evidence that some unions in Wisconsin are so desperate | Read More »
If You Think Unfunded Pensions Are A Problem, You Don’t Know The Half of It…
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 4th at 08:00 AM |
This nation is in trouble. Unfortunately, rather than recognize that they are a large part of the problem, today’s union bosses would rather obfuscate and attack those trying to reform the government-union system. Today, unions and their allies are engaging in rallies throughout the country decrying the so-called union-busting (or, more likely, the loss of their union dues). Meanwhile, America’s financial future continues careening toward | Read More »
Death, Taxes…and Union Dues?
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 2nd at 05:30 PM |
As the ethically-challenged judge in Wisconsin holds up Scott Walkers’ union-reform law again (for another two months) and AFSCME bullies local businesses and think tanks receive death threats, the fight in Wisconsin (and elsewhere) is becoming clearly about union power, nothing more and nothing less. On Friday, to reconfirm just how much is at stake for union bosses, near the bottom of a Wall Street | Read More »
House Votes to Reject Union Boss-Backed FAA Amendment On Air & Rail Elections
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 1st at 03:30 PM |
Earlier today, the House of Representatives voted down (220-206) the union-backed LaTourette [R-OH] Amendment to the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011. The Amendment was designed to strip language from the bill that would return the 75-year old standards by which ballots are counted in union elections in the air and rail industries. [via the Hill] The House on Friday morning rejected a controversial | Read More »
Ohio’s John Kasich Signs Law Limiting Government Union Power
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 1st at 07:00 AM |
On Thursday, union bosses found themselves beating to the sound of a different drummer as Ohio’s taxpayers won a reprieve from the same old union song and dance as Governor John Kasich signed SB5 into law. As many have stated on numerous occasions, government unions have spent many years perfecting a system of backing political candidates who get elected with union money and resources, then | Read More »
Sewing Grape Seeds of Wrath: Cesar Chavez Meets George Orwell in California’s Fields
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 1st at 12:15 AM |
You might not have known this until now but Thursday was César Chávez Day. Born on March 31, 1927, Chávez was the co-founder (along with Dolores Huerta) of the United Farm Workers. Though he died in 1993, Chávez’s legacy as a fighter for farm workers’ rights continues unabated. It is, therefore, somewhat ironic (not to mention a perversion of that legacy) that his successors in | Read More »
Obama Threatens Veto If Congress Strips Pro-Union Election Rules in FAA Bill
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 31st at 08:15 AM |
As noted on Tuesday, the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act is scheduled for a vote today. However, the White House is now stating that it is likely the President will veto the legislation if a provision that gives union bosses the ability to more easily unionize airline (and railroad) employees is not removed. [via HuffPo] In a big boost to union activists, the White House | Read More »
Support For The Koch Brothers From An Unlikely Source: The United Steelworkers
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 31st at 07:00 AM |
If you’ve been following the Wisconsin fracas over these past few weeks, you’ve probably noticed that the Left’s enemy du jour has become the American businessmen Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries. As an American company, Koch Industries employs over 50,000 Americans. In total, the number of American jobs that indirectly supported Koch Industries is over 200,000. In Wisconsin, Koch Industries provides nearly 3,000 jobs directly and | Read More »
Organized Labor or Organized Thugs? AFSCME Openly Threatens WI Businesses
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 30th at 11:30 AM |
Well, that didn’t take long. Union threats that were somewhat isolated a couple of weeks ago are now gaining in popularity among union bosses in Wisconsin. Business owners are now receiving threatening letters telling them that, if they don’t support government-sector unions, their businesses will be boycotted. Members of Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, have begun circulating letters to businesses in southeast Wisconsin, | Read More »
SEIU’s Manifesto? Stephen Lerner Doubles Down on Crippling America’s Economic System
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 29th at 07:30 PM |
Last week, The Blaze posted two audio recordings of Stephen Lerner, an SEIU boss who was lecturing an audience on how to bring down the American economy. While Lerner had reportedly been fired from the SEIU last year, it turns out that that may not have been the case. During the audio, Lerner was introduced as being “of SEIU.” Moreover, former ACORN founder, Chief Organizer | Read More »
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