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SEIU Local Behind Strike Planned for

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 26 officials are working hand-in-glove with some local organizations (representing approximately 30% of the warehouse workforce) to strike on Monday, Amazon Prime Day 1.  The strike planned to go forward in the Shakopee, Minnesota…

Eugene Scalia Nominated for Labor Secretary

The Department of Labor was established to administer federal labor laws and to ensure workers’ work-related benefits and rights under those laws are advanced.   President Trump has nominated Eugene Scalia for Secretary of Labor, to replace Alex Acosta.  Scalia is…

California Union Official Pleads Guilty To Destroying and Concealing Financial Records

While acting as the Financial Secretary for a Long Beach United Steelworkers, Tatia Clark destroyed union financial records. According to a Long Beach Post article, “Dutton and Clark were charged in July 2016 in a four-count felony indictment, which alleged…

Volkswagen Workers Vote Once Again for Freedom

The third time is a charm.  Volkswagen workers at the Chattanooga plant voted once again in favor of freedom.  The vote ran 833 opposing and 776 pushing for unionization.  According to the National Labor Relations board (NLRB) around 70 employees…

Federal Union officials Mobilizing Against Proposed Department Merger

American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and National Federation of Government Employees (NFGE) officials rallied outside the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM).  The rally served as a protest against a possible merger of that OPM with the General Services…

Big Labor Payback: Sisolak Delivers Bargaining to Government Unions

While Wisconsin was busy curtailing monopoly bargaining privileges to its government employees, Nevada Big labor has snagged a huge payback from Governor Steve Sisolak. Since 1965 there has been a law on the books prohibiting monopoly bargaining for public employees…

Ohio TCU-IAM Union’s Bud Sherwood Admits Embezzlement

Sandusky, Ohio man pleaded guilty to embezzling from Transportation Communication Union (International Association of Machinists) Lodge 6546 while serving as the union’s Secretary Treasurer.  Bud G. Sherwood admitted to embezzling to an amount approximately 50% of the union’s annual dues. …

Veterans Affairs Union AFGE 331 Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

Annette Jones, while serving as Secretary-Treasurer of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 331 (located in Perry Point, Md.), embezzled at least $82,180 from the union by writing checks to herself, forging the signature of other union officers on…

Non-Medically Trained Control Over Hospital Staffing Growing

And, the United Nurses and Allied Professional is one example. While the union keeps a nurse as president, the union is actually run by two brothers: a lawyer and a labor activist. Two brothers, who have no medical management experience,…

Stampede to Leave Forced-Dues California Spikes Moving Costs

People abandoning LA pay a “huge premium” for U-Haul trucks “leaving California” (the largest-population state without Right to Work protections for employees) “for Texas” (the largest-population Right to Work state). On the flip-side, should Texans want to go West, there…

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