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 »
On Monday, the International Association of Machinists won an election to represent 2,900 employees at AirTran. The union (the same union calling for airline re-regulation) won despite the fact that 1,906 (nearly 66%) of AirTran’s employees did not vote for unionization. In fact, 36% of the employees did not vote at all. The union’s victory is a good example of how President Obama’s union appointments | Read More »
Last week, while passing through Sin City (aka Washington, DC), I had the opportunity to attend a screening of Atlas Shrugged, Part One at the Heritage Foundation. As one whose life took a remarkable turn nearly two decades ago, in part due to Atlas Shrugged, waiting for a movie version of Ayn Rand’s novel to hit the big screen has been an effort at exercising | Read More »
With the hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act “basically dead” for now, union bosses are still finding ways to try to fill their coffers with new members any way they can. At the state level, since agricultural workers are excluded from the National Labor Relations Act, the United Farm Workers is using the farm worker exemption to its advantage—and counting on newly-elected Democrat Governor Jerry Brown | Read More »
Given the many of the asinine rulings coming from the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board, it is becoming impossible to be shocked at the kowtowing to union bosses’ these days. Nevertheless, there is a sense of duty to bring you the latest example of the tail wagging the dog. Here’s the bottom line: Companies that have third-party contractors can now be found guilty of committing unfair labor | Read More »
Milwaukee, meet Detroit. Last Thursday, a Wisconsin Court of Appeals lifted an injunction on a 2008 voter-approved measure requiring businesses to provide employees with up to nine sick days per calendar year. It may now head to the Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. If the Court’s decision is not overturned, businesses with 10 or more employees will be required provide nearly two weeks of paid sick time | Read More »
Today, England’s trade unions and their friends on the Left had a massive demonstration on the streets of London. It devolved into ‘madness‘ as anarchists hijacked the demonstration, breaking in windows, assaulting police, and generally causing mayhem. Union leaders were not displeased. Trade union leaders, who put on 600 coaches and nine trains to ferry protesters to the capital, insisted they only wanted a ‘safe, well-stewarded | Read More »
Granted, it would probably be bad optics for union bosses to put a Hitler mustache on President Obama. However, the way they’ve been prattling on of late about so-called “rights,” you’d think union bosses would be filling up the buses and hightailing it to Washington to storm the offices of the National Mediation Board. You see, while the right to collective bargaining in the government sector is | Read More »
One of the big unspoken fights in Wisconsin over these past few weeks has been Scott Walker’s proposal for the state to stop collecting union dues for the unions. The other has been to make paying union dues voluntary, as opposed to requiring payment as a condition of employment. To unions, that is like cutting their oxygen off. Unions cannot survive without the millions they | Read More »
Here’s a question: If a union voluntarily calls a strike and would be available, were it not for the fact that the union strikers walked off their jobs, should those strikers be eligible for food stamps? [Remember, the work is available.] If you answered ‘no‘ to that question, then you’d probably be in agreement with this: Rep. Scott (R-SC) Rep. Garrett and Rep. Burton (R-IN) | Read More »
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the United Auto Workers’ Bob King thinks he’s just the union boss to make a go of it. With negotiations about to start with the Big Three American auto companies (two of which are UAW-owned), King is ramping up his rhetoric against the CEO of the only automaker that taxpayers did not bail out (Ford’s Mulally), while plotting | Read More »
We know that the SEIU wants to convert millions of illegal aliens into U.S. citizens. We know the SEIU’s goal is to turn those illegal aliens-turned-U.S. citizens into a “progressive voters.” We know that the SEIU’s membership consists of illegal aliens from whom they collect union dues because they say so—freely. We know that the SEIU does not want enforcement of immigration laws, be it in | Read More »
San Francisco—On Monday, February 16, a bomb blew up at Park Police Station, killing a police sergeant and wounding several others. Sergeant McDonnell caught the full force of the flying shrapnel, which consisted of heavy metal staples and lead bullets. As other officers tried rendering aid to the fallen sergeant, they could see that he sustained a severed neck artery wound and severe wounds to his eyes and neck. He | Read More »
For the last several years, outside of union bosses themselves, there has been no greater proponent behind the hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act—the failed bill that effectively would have killed secret-ballot elections on unionization in the workplace—than California Democrat Congressman George Miller. In fact, going all the way back to 2003, Miller has introduced the job-killing legislation in the 108th, 109th and 110th Congress’, where | Read More »
On Friday, unions scored a temporary victory to maintain their ability to collect union dues from Wisconsin public employees when Judge Maryann Sumi (the same judge who refused to order striking teachers back to work in February) issued a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the implementation of Wisconsin’s new law governing public-sector unions. Via the Wall Street Journal: Judge Maryann Sumi said a lawsuit filed by | Read More »
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