February 2019

Pensions in Critical Status (2018)

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2018 Critical Pension Notices: Under Federal pension law, if a multiemployer pension plan is determined to be in critical status (a plan in critical and declining status is considered to be a plan in critical status) or endangered status, the plan must provide notice of this status to participants, beneficiaries, the bargaining parties, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the Department of Labor.

A Big Union Payback?

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Two bills designed to eliminate Right to Work, are expected to be reintroduced in this year’s Congress. With union membership at an all-time low private sector union bosses are desperately…

Union Boss Johnny Doc Stopped Filing Conflict-of-Interest Reports after 2008

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(Click here to view Dougherty’s conflict-of-interest reports (Form LM-30) that Philly Union Boss John J. “Johnny Doc” Dougherty filed with the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) covering the years 2004-2008.)…

Ex Union boss Seabrook Gets Jail for $60,000

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Former president of the Correctional Officers Benevolent Association Norman Seabrook will go to jail for 4 years after taking a $60,000 kickback. The kickback was in exchange for a $20…

Data Suggest 410,000 Government Employees Rejected Unions

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Late last June, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that government employers across the country may not cut deals with Big Labor officials to fire civil servants simply for refusing to…

All in the Family: Dougherty and Forced Dues

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According to the indictment, 10 of Johnny Doughterty’s family members, currently unnamed, benefited most from the force dues paid to the IBEW Local 198. From baby wipes to $20,000 security…

Mark Pearce Will Not Serve on NLRB

Mark Gaston Pearce, a rabid supporter of union boss schemes and forced dues, withdrew his name from consideration for a place on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Nominated by…

Union Bosses Fight Montana Janus Bill

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An effort to bring Montana policy in line with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation-won Janus v. AFSCME decision, which gives all public sector employees the freedom to…