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Perhaps the most decided disadvantage to being a union boss must be that you deal with unionized employees who turn your own tactics against you as an employer. Service Employees International Union bosses were stopped dead in their tracks as…
At the end of last month, the U.S. Labor Department issued new and revised data regarding the number of civilian household jobs (a broad measure that includes the self-employed and contractors as well as workers on employer payrolls) in each…
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.
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 seeking ways to increase their membership. Their political activity, funded…
(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.) Like most union bosses, recently indicted John Dougherty stopped filing…
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 million investment of members’ retirement investments in a company that…
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 pay dues or fees to a union they don’t want,…
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 systems, from high-end birthday parties to numerous repairs, performed for…
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 President Trump, Pearce is known for the many decisions he…