Archive for October 2014
Grant Leads to Union Organizing, Corruption
Subcontracted by a non-profit to enroll people in Affordable Care Act coverage, union workers ended up recruiting more union members. The whole scheme came to light when a union worker…
Read MoreTrumka Reveals Unprecedented Spending on State Elections
AFl-CIO President Richard Trumka intends on spending hundreds of millions of forced-dues dollars on the upcoming midterm elections, pouring more into state level races than before. Tom Hamburger has the…
Read More“Union Official” Time
A new report published by the Office of Personnel Management reveals over $1.5 million of taxpayer money are spent paying federal workers to conduct union official business. Misnamed “official time,”…
Read MoreA Reign of Terror Begins in Tennessee
Having lost a representation election bid at a Volkswagen plan in Tennessee, the UAW has begun a Reign of Terror at the Spring Hill plant in Right to Work Tennessee. Already an…
Read MoreForced Political Contributions?
This Washington Examiner editorial explores union bosses’ power to force workers into paying for politics they do not support. How would you react if your employer informed you he would…
Read MoreUAW Desperate to Keep Michigan Members
If a union is working for its members, those members will not want to resign. If it is not working for its members, they should not have to jump through…
Read MoreIf It’s Selective, Then It Isn’t Really ‘Majority Rule’
Under the principles of limited government espoused by the American Founding Fathers who wrote and approved our Constitution two-and-a-quarter centuries ago and most Americans today, public decisions are generally made…
Read MoreNILRR Clips October 10, 2014
Roy Exum: The UAW’s New Scab List The Chattanoogan Online, October 10, 2014 There is a special page that is popping up on union websites in right-to-work states such as…
Read MorePro-Union Monopoly New York Times Editors Flunk Constitutional Law
It can’t be a very common thing for the editors of the New York Times opinion pages to sound the alarm about a “dangerous” federal lawsuit that hasn’t even been…
Read More2014 Labor Union Pension Plan Critical Status Notices
The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has updated its page listing the Critical Status Notices sent out by the U.S. Department of Labor to “multiemployer pension plans,” which are mostly controlled by Labor Union Officials. This year and several past years of status notices go to NILRR,org’s 2014 Pensions in Critical Status page.
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